Week 8 Reflection

I've survived another week!  I don't think I mentioned it here before, but a few weeks ago I added a tab to my blog with my training calendar- check it out if you're wondering what my running schedule looks like up until race day!

The Ups:

• The 3 mile runs on Tuesdays and Thursdays now feel like they're just fun :)
• My long mid-week run on Wednesday (6 miles) went really well this week!  Thanks to the very helpful suggestions from Dawn, Krista, and Keri I made it through the rest of the day without a terrible headache by the afternoon, which felt really great!
• The weather last week was a bit cooler than it has been, so it was much nicer to run in.
• I ran a half marathon (!) -just the distance, not an actual race- for my long run on Saturday.  It feels good to be at the half-way distance point!
• I decided that running 13 miles in the morning (and therefore burning about 1300ish calories) means that I can consume almost double my normal caloric intake for a day just to come out even.  I love eating.  :)
• I still haven't skipped any training runs.
• I got another "First Marathon Confessions" interview up here- I'm loving every second of doing those.
• I am absolutely loving finding other running blogs to follow and I'm loving the comments that others are leaving here for me- it's so encouraging!

The Downs:

• I smashed and bruised my toe on Monday.  It didn't hinder my training really, but it did make it slightly uncomfortable at times.
• I didn't feel really motivated this week.  I was thisclose to putting off my Thursday training run until the afternoon, but I realized I had an evening commitment and the morning was my only option.  It was just hard to get out of bed all week.
• I wish I would have posted more here last week.  I want to try to get better at writing my posts in advance and scheduling them out in case the days just get too busy.

I definitely had more ups than downs last week- which I feel really fortunate about because that smashed toe had some potential to make things really miserable.

What I've accomplished so far:
8 weeks of training
153 training miles

What's left to do:
10 weeks of training
281 training miles

I linked them above too, but definitely check out the blogs of the wonderful ladies who helped me out with their comments last week:

Dawn- running: the dawn
Krista- Commitment is Liberating
Keri- The Blue-Eyed Runner

I found a bunch of blogs related to running that I've added to my reader in addition to the three listed above and I hope to add a page to my blog with all of them listed out sometime this week!

Thanks everyone for your support through another week of training!