We Have We Been Up To?

Wow! Where has this year gone? Can you believe that it is already August? I sure can't! Time has been going by so fast, and so fast that it seems like I haven't had time to sit down and blog about everything that we have been doing the last couple of months.

June was a pretty busy month for me between working and running. I did a lot of substitute teaching at the end of the school year, definitely more than I was expecting, but it was nice. I really love teaching and working with the students. It is so much fun! Even with all the hours I was putting in at the end of the school year, which went until June 22 because of the snow days, I still ran a total of 100 miles! An increase of 23 miles from the month of May! I also ended up with 60 walking miles! My average running pace was a 10:21 minute mile. My average walking pace was 17:14, and I burned a total of 11,882 calories! June ended up being a really good month.

On June 27th we started our training for marathon number 2! Yes, we are running the same marathon as last year. The same marathon we swore while we were running and as soon as we were done, that we would never run again! The Baltimore Marathon!

July started out very busy as well. My sister came to visit for the 4th of July weekend. She left on Sunday the 3rd. My mom also came to visit. She was July 3rd through the 10th. It was so nice having both my sister and my mom down here to visit. We had a great time. My sister and I went shopping...that is a workout in itself. :) My mom was here a little longer, so we got to do a few different things. We went to a Bowie Baysox game and watched their 4th of July fireworks display afterwards. A couple of days later, we went and walked around downtown Annapolis, as my mom had never been there. Luckily, she got here before we had the 115 degree weather!

Despite the busy start to July and the horrible heat wave we encountered throughout the month, we managed to complete the first 5 weeks of our marathon training. There were some early morning runs, and some very hot and humid runs, but that is what summer marathon training is all about! Plus, it makes the temperature in October feel amazing! July running and walking numbers are a little lower, due to training, but are rapidly increasing and August's numbers will definitely show that! We logged 79 running miles and 47 walking miles for the month of July. The average run pace was 9:32. Our average walk pace was 25:31, this includes miles walking the doggies. They tend to slow you down a little bit! :) I burned 10,582 calories in the month of July.

This puts my total running miles at 1,215 since July 12 of 2010 and my walking miles at 360. My walking miles are lower due to the fact that I didn't really start including the miles I spent walking until December of 2010.

Oh, and I am starting to include some biking on my non-running days. Only ended up with 10 miles for the month of July, but hoping to increase that number for the month of August. Biking is a great cross-training workout for runners. I am hoping it will make my legs a little stronger and ready for the Baltimore hills!

Thanks for reading!