Race Training - Kelly

Hey blogger world! Sorry I've been so absent. Since the holidays I've been all over the place for work and with visitors in the city and just haven't been able to devote a lot of time to blogging. There is quite a bit going on in my world so I'll work on posting about all the changes over the next week or so. For now I'm going to post about something that started up again for me this week.... race training!

Right now I'm training for the Indianapolis Mini Marathon (13.1 miles on May 5th) but will go straight from that race into training for the Chicago Marathon (in early October). Click here for a link to my training schedule. Just looking at it makes me tired!

I really loved training for the marathon last spring and am pretty excited about being in training February through October this year. One major change from last year is ALL my runs have to be outdoors now since I got rid of my gym membership when I became a member at my yoga studio. Most of my runs were outdoors after March 1st last year anyway but it's been hard motivating myself to run in the dark 30 degree weather some mornings! Soon enough I'll be complaining about it be too hot to run so I should probably just suck it up. :)

Here's a quick picture of me after at 14 or 15 mile training run last spring:

Ah, memories of bloody socks and an appetite that can't be filled! I'm also going to start blogging my training on the blog Brady and I used last year: http://runchicago.tumblr.com/. Instead of doing an update every run I think I'm going to do a weekend recap every Sunday so you can follow my progress there!

Seeing as I'm running in the morning I probably should call it a night. More updates (travel, work, juice cleanses, moving) to come!!