Before I get to my monthly recap of miles and goals, I want to note my progress on National Novel Writing Month. In the first three days I’ve written 5,534 words. That puts me 533 words ahead of schedule (a whopping 1%)! I have already learned a lot. I am proud of myself for keeping up so far and yet wholly intimidated by the fact that I’m a tenth of the way through and need to keep this up day after day for many more days.
Miles for October
With October being full marathon month for me, I ended up running relatively few miles during taper and the recovery week after the marathon. I have been battling a torn calf muscle that wants to morph into shin splints. I’m a little ticked that running less has resulted in more injury. But I’ve been mixing up my workouts and throwing in some serious yard work and housework too (I’m not talking dusting, I’m talking full on attack).
Swim: 0 miles. It doesn’t fit into my schedule well this school year and without a triathlon on the calendar I simply don’t make it a priority.
Bike: 52.1 miles in 3.85 hours in 4 workouts.
Run: 70.55 miles in 11.2 hours in 9 workouts. That is likely the lowest number of miles I’ve run in a month in well over a year.
Walk: 1.16 miles in .72 hours in 9 workouts (I never know whether to count these cooldown walks as part of my running miles, not that it matters to anyone, anywhere).
Weight training (including some Jillian Michaels DVDs that are indeed shredding my abs): 3.43 hours in 6 workouts
Yard work and heavy housecleaning: 8 hours 40 minutes in 5 workouts.
Random Photo for October
Isabella of France and Braveheart for Halloween
Goals for November
1. Win National Novel Writing Month by completing 50,000 words of a novel!
2. Run my first trail race!
3. Beat my calf and shins back into submission.
What did you dress up as for Halloween? What are your goals for November?
Those are great goals! I can’t wait to hear about the novel progress 🙂
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Thanks! It’s taking a lot of dedication. I hit 7,000+ words yesterday and hope to make it to 9,000 today! But for now a little 5-year-old calls to me to play on the see-saw, and I’m not saying no to that! Time to turn off the computer…. 🙂
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You’re about 4,000 words ahead of me…keep plugging away!!!!
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Go go go! I am amazed by the sheer amount of time it takes to do the writing — which I should be doing now instead of this. 😉
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Awesome picture!!!
Sorry about the torn calf muscle – that is no joke!!! I hope it heals quickly so that you can meet your goal of a trail race this month.
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I can’t decide at this point if running helps or hurts the injury so I just keep running, albeit not as far. I hope to find the magic solution soon. Thanks for the good wishes!
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I used to play tennis with Braveheart. Didn’t realize the connection until just now. The Mission Gorge trail race in February is awesome.
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What a small world! I enjoyed reading about your experiences with the SF and LA Marathons. I keep thinking “I should do LA” and each time I look at it seriously I choose something else. Reading your report validates that choice!
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LA is crowded and I wouldn’t run it again. I only ran LA for the SF/LA medal. San Francisco was a much better event and I want to run it again.
Story of SF is here: http://smplefy.wordpress.com/2012/08/03/race-review-the-san-francisco-marathon-aka-47-0-goes-26-2/
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[…] rolled around again this year, I thought it was going to be hard to beat last year’s Braveheart costumes. But Mike put his sewing skills to use and made a top for me and a fantastic coat for him (he […]
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