#Sub5orBust: Week 15 Training Update (January 27 - February 2, 2020)

Monday, 1/27 → Rest

Tuesday, 1/28 → 7 mile run (treadmill) 

Wednesday, 1/29 → Rest

Thursday, 1/30 → Rest

Friday, 1/31 → 3 mile run (treadmill)

Saturday, 2/1 → Rest
Sunday, 2/2 → 5 mile run (treadmill)

IT'S OFFICIALLY RACE WEEK AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! 

Can you tell I'm feeling ALL THE FEELINGS? 😂 I'm so excited and nervous and confident and curious and PUMPED for Sunday. It's going to be so great! I didn't stretch at all last week which was really dumb of me. I feel like everytime I make a promise to myself that I'm going to stretch it just does not happen. Sooo.... this week I WILL NOT STRETCH AT ALL!!! Reverse psychology, right? 😜

For real though, all I have on the docket this week is two 3-milers and a two mile shakeout on Saturday. It's all about taking it really easy this week, (not) rolling out, (not) stretching (#reversepsychology), hydrating and getting my mind right. I'm going to try to make my diet really clean this week as well so I'm not feeling super blah on race day. I'm actually hoping to do a "what I ate during race week" post to share with y'all later on this month, so we can see if what I eat this week will translate on the course in NOLA. Stay tuned! I just started reading Let Your Mind Run by Deena Kastor today, so I'm hoping that will give me some things to think on during the race on Sunday as well. 

Because there won't be too much to report on my training this week, this will be my last training update for this cycle! I'm hoping that this training cycle will take me through Rock n' Roll NOLA, Disney Princess Half Marathon Weekend, and the LA Marathon in March. I'll of course be doing several maintenance runs between races but in terms of a training program, I won't be hopping into another one until post-LA. Crazy!! Again, I'm really proud of myself for sticking to this program and completing 99% of my assigned workouts. This is the best I've ever done during a cycle and I am so excited for Sunday. It'll be a victory lap for sure!!!

February 2020 At a Glance

If only. 😂

February is about to be BUSY! I have quite a few things planned including two out of state trips, a 10k, a half marathon, a full marathon, and two readathons! 💀 I am actually so excited. January was a nice relaxing start to the new year and I am now rested and ready to take on a jam-packed spring. We're going to be pretty much full-force at work until the semester ends in May, but I have a lot of fun personal life plans on the horizon as well. Here's what's going to be happening this month!

FEBRUARY PLANS

7-10: New Orleans, baby!

9: Rock n' Roll New Orleans Marathon

10-16: ContemporaryAThon Round 6 (TBR to come later this week!)

15-16: February Read Your Face Off 24 Hour Readathon

21-24: Disney Trip!

22: Disney Enchanted 10K

23: Disney Princess Half Marathon + Magic Kingdom!

FEBRUARY TBR

The Friend Zone by Abby Jimenez

Not So Pure and Simple by Lamar Giles

Wundersmith: The Calling of Morrigan Crow by Jessica Townsend

November Road by Lou Berney

The Oracle Year by Charles Soule

Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Meet Cute by Jennifer L. Armentrout

Let Your Mind Run by Deena Kastor

The Female of the Species by Mindy McGinnis

continuing from January reads...

The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

Harry Potter & the Half Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling

The Death and Life of Aida Hernandez: A Border Story by Aaron Bobrow-Strain

What are your plans for this month?

Objects in Mirror are Closer Than They Appear // Weekly Round Up 1.26.20 - 2.1.20

I'm dogsitting this knucklehead for the next week while Cassie is off on a tropical vaca! It's nice to have some serious doggo time. I haven't had too much since Brett and I moved last spring. Abby is a bundle of energy so I have a feeling I'll be getting plenty of outdoor time over the next week. As I'm typing this we've already gone for a short walk and spent about an hour at the dog park, and it's not even noon! She's napping next to me on the couch right now but I'm sure she'll be back raring to go in a few hours! Before she does I wanted to make sure I took time to type out this week's round up. Here's what's been going on!

Kobe Bryant and Complicated Legacies

The news of Kobe Bryant's death last weekend has been incredibly shocking and the circumstances of the 9 lives lost is such a heartbreaking tragedy. However, it has brought up a lot of complicated feelings for me. This article really perfectly sums up how I've been feeling this week. This situation is a great reminder that people are complex and are comprised of both good and bad qualities, decisions, thoughts, and feelings. I feel like I'll be reflecting on this for a while, but for now it's just an extremely sad situation.

Balancing a sad piece of news with a happy piece of news, our police department continues to be wholesome AF. Whoever decided to make the town's therapy dog the face of the police department was a genius because I melt EVERY TIME. I love that more towns in our county are seeing the merits of having a therapy dog available to folks experiencing traumatic situations. They are really seeing the value of considering mental health in their work. I also saw this amazing article about the jail diversion program - so incredible! Bravo Franklin PD!

Corral placements came out for Princess Weekend! I never submitted a proof of time so, as expected, it'll be party in the back for me. Luckily my pace these days will allow me to get way ahead of the sweepers after a couple of miles so hopefully I'll be able to do some character photos toward the end of each race, but we shall see! I'm just so excited that my Disney trip is coming up. I just bought my ticket for a post-half marathon trip to Magic Kingdom as well. It's getting real, people! ✨

We went to Brett's mom's house last weekend and this pic of tiny Brett just absolutely KILLED ME. How adorable is he? I love that he's pulling a duck face. 😂

I googled how many days were until my birthday to share with you in this post, and it turns out May 11th is exactly 100 days away! *sweats* 100 days left of my 20's... wild! I have a lot of fun things planned so I'm sure I will be giving this decade a great send off. 🎉

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TOO REAL.