I may have a Serious Addiction!!!!

In the past 3 weeks I have ran 41, 45, and 46 miles!! Those are some crazy totals considering I would have been lucky to have a total of 20 miles a week back in October/November of last year! I definitely have my mojo back!! I keep wanting to push myself more and more with my running! My legs are feeling strong and powerful and I love it!! I am super proud of how far I have come with my running.

Back when I started running almost 3 years ago, I had a hard time running a full mile on the treadmill and it took me between 13-15 minutes to do it! I would get so down on myself, thinking that I would never be able to run a 10 minute mile! Now I can run that consistently for long distances, but I get down on myself when I can't maintain 9 minute miles for a 5K! I need to just be proud of myself for how far I have come with my running! I will get there! I'm just always in such a competiton with myself! I know I can I can do so much better with my nutrition so I am going to read this book!

I'm excited to see what it has to say! I have been trying to use the Beachbody 21 Day Fix containers and that has helped some but I feel like that doesn't take into account my soon-to-be new classification as an endurance athlete when I really start training for my full marathon. I'm really hoping for some good insights from this book! I've heard it's pretty good! I have another one called Diet Cults that I'm hoping to start soon also!

I will tell you that I have had the racing itch lately! I really want to sign up for more races!! I told myself that I was going to concentrate on a few half marathons and my full marathon, but there are some local 5Ks and 10Ks that I still think I would like to do! One is next month for the Boys & Girls club. I ran it last year and it was really fun! It was actually my fastest 5K time last year! I may just have to do it!! See the addiction!! I probably need therapy!! Lol

I definitely need this sweatshirt for my addiction! It's so bad that anytime I have a free minute, I am thinking about running and how many miles can I put in in this short amount of time!

Thank you for following my running addiction!! Thank you for motivating me to keep going! You guys are awesome!!

What races are you signed up for this year??

Be Strong, You Never Know Who You Are Inspiring!!

RUN ON!!

Laura

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