Wednesday, June 25, 2008

MacKnitty is 45 miles and plus 5 pounds

So...

I don't really understand this, well I do but I am in perfect denial. According to my Nike+ system I am run a nice 45 miles. I am an average pace of 13 minutes 3 seconds which is way slower than my half marathon pace so I better do some faster running the the next week.

Maybe with the rest and recovery weeks upcoming I will bounce back stronger and better.

I am really disappointed in that scale of mine. 207 pounds! What the? I am not happy with it's performance. I am chalking it up to muscle mass (when actually I know it's that omelet I ate on Saturday and my birthday cake from yesterday). Well, I am big and beautiful and powerful. I am what they call in the runner's world Athena woman, a woman over 170 pounds.

This month has been dubbed the month o' gear for me. I have my new AMP+ which bombed on
me last Saturday but seems to be awesome on this week's runs.


Then I got me a fancy haute couture orange running vest----> (gag!), match with a running skirt it does not.

For my birthday, my hubsters got me a new set of running glasses, my others were a victim of 'CLEAN HOUSE'.

I knitted a new little pocket for my Nike+ system since I don't really care for Nike shoes. My favorite shoes were my shock shoes which now you can personalize for a whopping 120 bucks. No thank you. I would rather use that cashola on my new way to motivate myself...

by paying myself for every mile I run. Thus far I'm up to 8 bucks.

By the end I would have 198 in just weekly runs alone and 198 in long runs. So a total of 396 bucks that I could spend on a set of clothes, some fancy knitting stuff, a new iPod? Registration for my Alaska Marathon? A running jacket? A nice blue safety vest. I am truly excited about this new plan.