The pic is from before we moved but no photos have auto backed up since June 2 so it's what I'll go with.
I registered for the 5k and wanted to beat my old best time doing this which was in 2015. I did a goal pace run earlier in the week and needed 9:11. I realized the race was going long so then I was confused but thought I met my goal pace. Well here I averaged 9:05 but the race was long so I did not meet my goal time. Now I really feel like I need another race to redeem myself. The last time I did this race I did in 36 min and the time before 31 but I wanted in the 28s like when I ran it in 2015.
My original goal was 28:51; my personal best on this course. Then I just wanted to beat my personal best in California so that was 28:20. 27:48 was actually a best since having kids but that was a PA race and I believe it was slightly short.
I was so busy that I barely had time to be nervous. I only got nervous right at the start line.
The race turnaround was wrong and the race was long.
We were running late and I was stressed.
There is no shade at all and the race starts later than most races so it's extra warm by the time of the 5k.
The day before I was way too busy and wore shoes that weren't my standard shoes. My feet hate anything that's not my sneaker. My feet hurt a lot. I won't schedule family photos the day before again! I also won't get minimal sleep because of yearbook deadlines. Next time when I'm figuring out my goal time I'm going to plan for a 3.2 mi race not 3.1 so then hopefully I beat it instead of being super mad.
I wrote everything above the week of the race, which was 1.5 months ago. I was hoping that there would be race photos that I'm in but of course I'm not in a single race photo. I passed a few volunteer photographers and they'd always have their camera down like they didn't care about 5k racers that weren't fast or something
I was annoyed my family didn't see me come into the finish like they have in the past. They also have taken photos in the past but they didn't. Luckily my friend saw me at the finish so she immediately took out her phone and said to let her get a photo. I didn't even have to ask her!
Prior to the race, I ran into someone I ran with about 8 years ago. Her goal was about 30 minutes. She beat me by over a minute!
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| The turnaround. The yellow is where we turned around previous times I ran it. |
A few months ago I did a screen record with a voice over for garmin training plan details. It's not the best but I figured I'd share it here.
I love Garmin Training Plan. I use the same coach each time.
I always want to blog and don't have time. I put it on the back burner even though I love to look at it later. I just noticed I didn't have a single post in April. That's the first missed month since 2003 when I started with LiveJournal. Crazy. I have 2 race recaps I need to write. The kids ran a tot trot. Liam is always cooking. Google photos paid storage is filling up and auto backup isn't working so nothing is ever easy. Also remind me to never do 3 yearbooks ever again.
Also to add to the whole being busy thing, we are moving. Below is a screen shot of a photo of the new kitchen!
The tab of progression runs and the summary is new to see it all in one spot. The goal times vary when I update my race goal time.
I really like using Garmin training plans so then I don't end up just doing every run at the same speed. I like varying runs and varying goals and like seeing the splits at those intervals. I also like to use NRC to have mile splits too along with the splits from Garmin.
Nobody else probably cares about this at all but I do and in a few years I think I'll like to see this snapshot in time so I decided to make it a blog post.
More quotes and I apparently note to see pic which results in me digging for pictures.
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Miles - "Mommy do you want to join me over here?"
On walk.
“Are we going to keep doing this all day?”
Because this is my third walk in front of a propped camera to try to get framing. The camera fell over the 2nd time.
5/7/20
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Miles "What about your phone?"
"You can't just leave it there"
-- what happens when you try to prop your phone to get video. (The walk is on and off sprinkling. They loved using umbrellas.
5/12
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Miles: Mommy can you see yourself
Me. No. Well I can’t see my face but can see my legs. I need a mirror to see myself.
Miles: I’ll go get a mirror.
He runs to get one from the desk in his room where Ella has it.
Me looking in mirror: OK Miles what did you want me to see
Miles: I wanted you to see how pretty and beautiful you are.
Then Miles takes mirror and says “I’ll go put it back now.”
5-15
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Miles just came over to me while I'm eating asking “don't you need to go upstairs and check on the baby?!”
Me: Miles, the baby is down here
Miles: no he's not
Mw pointing: see
Miles: oh he is.
5/19
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Ella just made Miles come over to her and looked at him. and said "see boys have eyelashes. why don't boys have eyelashes on this show?" it's a cartoon. the girl has major eyelashes and boy doesn't
6/2/20
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Yesterday I was playing Mario Kart with Miles. He was behind but then you could see a couple people ahead of him in his screen. So I told him to try to pass them and get a better place. He then said come on mommy it's just for fun. He didn't want me to be telling him stuff to do to make it better and just let him play nice. I'm half asleep so doing a bad job explaining.
But 12 or 1st he doesn't care. He has fun playing.
Said on 6/4
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Almost every night Miles tells me “I hope you have a good night's sleep”
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Earlier I went to the bathroom and left Liam with Dave on the bed. I didn't even take long but I hate Liam crawling up to and around the toilet.
Well I came back. He was so happy. He hugged me so tight.
6/6
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Ella: sometimes when I watch this show I cry
Me: Why
Ella: because I think about what if daddy dies
Creative galaxy.
6/10/20
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After seeing pic of end of preschool that Ella wanted to be a teacher when she really up
I just asked her.
"Ella what do you want to be when you grow up?
Ella said "nothing. Just a mom working at home"
6/11/20
Here are 2 months of very old quotes. I don't document nearly as much anymore but I have 2021 to catch up on.
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Every day I ask Miles his favorite and least favorite parts of school that day. Today he told me he didn’t have any favorite parts so then I asked him his least favorite part and he said that it was when he saw me and I came and picked him up—-so he didn’t want to leave.
1-8-20
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Minutes after waking up, we walked downstairs. Miles asked me if I would make him brownies
And added
“You are an expert brownie maker”
Too bad I’m so sick
1/16/20
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We head downstairs to make pancakes. I ask Miles what we need.
Miles: We need a pan. We forgot that the last time. (see quote on 12/30)
1/20
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Ella’s crying. Says it won’t be good and she will look like a douchebag
Then Miles said she will look like a curtain
(Post hair cut aftermath) -- these are my notes from over a year ago but I believe this is when Ella cut her own hair. Funny Miles described it as a curtain!
1/25
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Trying to close the Christmas tree box
Miles: I know. Get something heavy and put it on it
He’s so smart. We used Dave.
2/4/20
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About to leave
Me: ok Miles I have to run inside and get my headphones
Miles: Ok I promise I won’t steal the baby
2/5/20
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Ella got a tiny heart pillow. And I asked Miles if he wanted one.
He said “yeah so I can give it to my friend Madison”
2/6
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“You were wrong. I was right. You should remember to listen to others when you are wrong. And you should remember peoples names too”
2-8-20
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Good story. Miles asked me what happened to his ball bath bomb. I I said something like it disappeared and went down the drain or went in the water I forget my wording it wasn’t very good. Miles said "it dissolved yes that is what it did."
2/14
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Miles told me I looked so pretty
Me: Thank You
Miles: You look so beautiful with your pink lipstick the color that I like.
He was creative and nice
2-25-20
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Putting helmet on at LACP
Miles: it’s for safety mama
2-26
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Miles: bye mommy. Have a good week
Waving bye to me when I was leaving school
2-26
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Miles: mommy if you make 5 balls for me I’ll tickle your back when we get home
(Kinetic sand balls)
2-26
Today I had even faster goal times since I changed my race goal so all training run goals have become faster. I thought there was no way I'd hit the 30 second goal times.
I'm not as shocked that my 1 min repeats were fast. I am shocked that they were ALL too fast. I'm surprised only 1 of the 30 second repeats was too slow. I'm shocked how many were way too fast though. Half of them were 30 seconds too fast.
I'm actually surprised how much improvement I've had. All intervals had a 1 minute recovery. Every time I walk a bit of that and jog the rest.
It's only February 1 and most of my charts aren't as useful to look at this early in the year. I really like looking at my day of the week chart though.
I always do my long run on the weekend. The rest is just interesting to see. Sunday is mostly my long run so it makes sense that Monday is mostly my day off. I was surprised at Thursday.
As you can see I added 3 new things to track for 2022.
I saw someone make a reel on instagram of everything they wore each day of the week. I immediately thought I should do that with running or at least workouts for the week. Once I did that, I ended up getting a bunch of suggested reels with other people doing their week's worth of running.
I ended up making 2 videos.
11/15/21-11/21/21
I went back to 2020 and put a second video on all the dates that only had one. I also finished November and December. The video is kind of long. I think it might be more fun to watch only 1 month at a time so you don't lose interest by the end. But anyway here it is. It was very time consuming to do.
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| We had cake after Liam was asleep. |
I try to ask this every birthday but seem to be missing a few. I asked these all to Ella a couple weeks late.
Apparently I used to do monthly posts with 1SE but here is all of 2021. The app was horrible for awhile for awhile and it'd take me 1-3 minutes just to get a video for 1 day. For 2021 I went with vertical instead of horizontal.
Another year of goals. Probably another year of forgetting about them.
In 2021:
I always make exercise goals a few years ago started to make some non exercise related goals. I never seem to do as well since I forget about them.
For 2021, here are my exercise goals and how I did:
Here are the details:
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| As of 12/29/21 |
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| as of 12/29. I worked out more after! |
