2014 By the Numbers 1,115.5

I apparently didn't do this post for 2013, but here it is, revitalized for 2014!

Miles ran:  698.1

Miles away from my goal:  0. I didn't actually set up, just that it'd be more than 2013, and it was! Despite taking most of the year off after the Bemidji Marathon.

Miles away from last year's mileage:+98.1
  

Miles per week average: 13.43

Miles per month average:  58.18

Total number of runs: 111

Miles per run average:  6.29

Time spent running:  about 4.5 days

Marathons: 1

Times I dropped from the full to a half after registering:  0!

Half Marathons: 6

10 mile: 0

10K: 1

5 mile:  0

5K: 2

3k: 1 (accidentally)

1 mile:  0

PRs accomplished:  1.  Auto PR whoop whoop!

Pairs of shoes purchased: ?? No clue. I've been stop piling shoes for years now, so I'm not sure which ones were actually purchased this year.

Hotel nights booked:  5

Flights taken:  1

Race road trips taken:  5  

Number of runners met: 7-- a group of gals at group runs for 605 Running Co and Janna who I was literally running into at races and group runs all over the place! AND Kristin in NYC!

People I'm still bummed I didn't meet: I don't think I had any missed opportunities.

Runner BFF Race Weekend Reunions:  0. Not acceptable.

States crossed off my "run a race in every state" list: 1. New York.

Awesome Race Photos garnered:  2--Only a couple from Bemidji, but they were FREE which was awesome. My mom snagged lots of good ones though!

Dear God I can't believe you'd post those race pics on the internet:  0... that I can remember. No since in digging and proving myself wrong.

Cute boys encountered on the bike trail:  0.

Number of marathons I wanted to DNF halfway through: 1 of 1.

Number of times I was proud of my racing efforts:  5 out of 10. Not bad.

Number of times Kyle ran with me:  0

Number of times my mom ran with me while I was racing: 2! 

Miles biked:  145

Hours of yoga classes attended: 33

Hours of barre classes attended:  4

50k Birthday

Does anyone remember when I suggested running 31 miles on my 31st birthday?? Lolz. I don't think I've managed 31 miles in the last 31 days, let alone in a 24 hour period. Needless to say, that did not happen, nor did it get attempted. Someday!

I woke up super early to go to a sculpt class, and then saw this adorable baby Jerbear picture of my 2nd birthday. And then I did the math and realized this picture was 29 years ago, and I almost had a heart attack.

The day was super lowkey full of lots of snuggles with Ollie.

I met some friends out for dinner and drinks.

Sometimes it's necessary to have multiple drink(s) yourself.

We had fun and still managed to be home and in bed by 10:30. I consider this an all around win.

And Kyle surprised me with flowers. 3 yellow for 30 years, and a pink for the 1 extra. Yes, he had to explain that because I didn't get it.

Weekly Reads (Listens): Not That Kind of Girl

Anytime we have a free HBO weekend, I get caught up on Girls. So when I saw that Lena Dunham was coming out with a humorous memoir, Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned", I was super excited to read (listen) to it. I waited for the audiobook version to come in at my library. There were tons of laugh outloud moments, but the more I heard her whine about her privileged upbringing, the more annoyed I became. I guess I thought that the premise for Girls was more fictional than based on her life, but now that I know that, I hope I can still enjoy it. Equal parts LOLZ to "I want to punch you in the face" moments. So take with that what you will I guess.

My rating: 3.5 stars


Summary from goodreads:

"There is nothing gutsier to me than a person announcing that their story is one that deserves to be told," writes Lena Dunham, and it certainly takes guts to share the stories that make up her first book, Not That Kind of Girl. These are stories about getting your butt touched by your boss, about friendship and dieting (kind of) and having two existential crises before the age of 20. Stories about travel, both successful and less so, and about having the kind of sex where you feel like keeping your sneakers on in case you have to run away during the act. Stories about proving yourself to a room of 50-year-old men in Hollywood and showing up to "an outlandishly high-fashion event with the crustiest red nose you ever saw." Fearless, smart, and as heartbreakingly honest as ever, Not That Kind of Girl establishes Lena Dunham as more than a hugely talented director, actress and producer-it announces her as a fresh and vibrant new literary voice. 

Aramco Houston Half Marathon Training Week 10

Monday I went to gentle vinyasa yoga. I thought about running after class, but that's as far as I got with that.

New Years day Emily and I met up for our first Barre bootcamp classes. Talk about sore after. I think I'm the oddball when it comes to bootcamp, because I look forward to the cardio parts to take a break from the lifting. Woof. #weak

Saturday morning I went to a power vinyasa class, and we worked toward hurdler pose. This pose likes to show me how tight my hips are. Thanks running! I had big plans to run after class, but somehow that morphed into lunch, then helping Kyle shop, then beers while watching NFL playoffs. #oops

And then to round out the week nicely, I got my ass handed to me during yoga sculpt. Woof.

2014 Goals Check In

Running

• Marathon PR. I'm not going to sign up for another marathon until my current training indicates that a sub-4 will be in my cards. I'm hoping that will be the case late this spring when I'm tentatively planning to register for marathon #7! This didn't happen. Not even close. But it will someday. :)
• Half Marathon PR. This spring I'm shooting for ~3 half marathon races. Since our weather can be incredibly fickle in the spring (and the fall, and the winter, and the summer....) I want to have options as to deciding what my A race is since I know that certain weather conditions destroy me. I have a lot of work to do to make this a reality over the next few months! I made some great progress toward this goal this year and raced two of my fastest half marathon times in almost 2 years, but still not close to my PR.
• 10k PR. There's a 10k in May and June that I'm planning on doing. If I'm in speedy shape, I would like to see this 3 year old (OMG) PR fall. I got within 2 minutes to this goal on the 4th of July. I was pretty proud of that!
• Be in L-O-V-E love with running. Big, fat YES.
• Run and race with friends. Jenn and I got to do quite a few races together before she got injured!
• Make some new running friends to add to the group. Jenn and I ran together a lot! And I've met some new runner friends through the running club!
• Run with speedier, intimidating folks to force me to run harder (Jacqueline, this means I will hopefully finally take you up on your long run offers!) Jenn is speedier, but I never got to the speedy speedy point of running with my super fast friends.
• Run a 200 mile month. Not even close.
• Hit a 50 mile training week while not in marathon training. (I'd like to try higher mileage training for my spring halfs, as long as my body is up for it!) This did not happen. This goal is probably not a possibility for a couple of years. 
• Run a 60 mile week, either in training or not. ^
• Do a month long run streak. This summer before marathon training starts? Next November? December? Hmm... This would be more feasible if it was a yoga streak. Hah.
• Run more miles than 2013 AND 2012. (924.6 in 2012 and 670.6 in 2013). 1 for 2! Half win.

Fitness

• Stay healthy. I did well up until September. 
• Chiro and/or massage BEFORE "when necessary". ie: already broken. Maintenance > Repairing. Eh. Fail.
• Do hip stretches and exercises on the reg. Win! I did my hip/glute stretches/activation drills before every run!
• Eat healthier. Cook more. Bulk up the delicious recipe stash. Eh, this varied throughout the year. I'd say we're ending the year on a massive fail.
• Bike another half century. I didn't quite get 50 miles, but I got 40 on a solo ride.
• Continue with stuff OTHER THAN running (ie: strength training, fitness videos, yoga, etc.) YES!
• Do abwork year round, not just in the summer when abs make an appearance.
• Make 100 pushups/day, every other day, a "thing" not just a one time thing.  (I did this on my birthday as it was on my 101 in 1001 list. It felt pretty good and Kyle did it with me!) Caveat: They were girl pushups, but I'd definitely like to work up to ALL regular pushups. It'll take some work though. My girl Jillian has helped over the past month. I wouldn't have been able to do 100 girl ones without doing the 30 day shred, that's for sure. Captain of the T Rex arms team over here!

Life

• Read 200 books.
• Attempt NaNoWriMo again. Spend some time in October doing NaNoWriMoPrep! Yay!
• Pay off a good portion of my grad school loans. Wahoo!
• Save money for a house down-payment. Kyle is doing way better at this than I am.
• Earn a promotion. YES!!!
• Take a trip with Kyle, even for the weekend. Win!
• Adopt a pug brother or sister for Ollie (maybe....Housing sitch dependent). Waiting on a house. Sigh.

December in Review + Goals

December in Review

It seems somewhat silly to do a review on a month were I barely ran, but I do like to compare stats from year to year, and December 2015 Jeri will be super annoyed at December 2014 Jeri for not posting this, so here it is.

Total Miles: 4.5 miles down from 12.1 last month.  

Total Time:  44:00 down from 2:00:00 last month. (23 hours of yoga/barre classes!) 

Total Runs: 1

Highest weekly mileage: 4.5 miles 12/8-12/14 (6 hours of classes the week of Xmas!)

Favorite run: Group run at 605 Running Co to look at Christmas lights.

Most hardcore run: NA

Favorite race: None.

Bike Miles: 0.

Yoga Classes: A lot. 19 yoga classes and 4 barre classes.

Power Vinyasa--9

Gentle vinyasa--4

Hot--2

Sculpt--2

Restorative--2

Favorite Jam: Taylor Swift's Blank Spaces.

December Goals

• 1 hard yoga class/week (4+/4) With the yoga challenge, I did waaaay more than 1 hard class a week. Whoop.
• 1 easy yoga class/week (4/4) I usually try to do two of the restorative classes/week, but I tried a lot of different classes for the challenge and ended up skipping a couple of restorative, but I hit 1 gentle class per week.
• 2 runs/week (1/8) Woof. Not even close.
• 1 buddy run/group run a week (1/4)
• Complete the yoga challenge at the studio (edited to add as the challenge was announced December 1st): Attend 15 classes at the studio, including two vinyasa, two hot, two sculpt, and one fusion or restorative class. (19/15!)

2015 Goals

Life

• Read 200 books.
• Buy a house.
• Take a trip with Kyle, even for the weekend.
• Adopt a pug brother or sister for Ollie.

Fitness

• Stay healthy.
• Complete 2 challenges at the yoga studio.
• Eat healthier. Cook more.
• Work toward my racing weight.
• Bike another half century.
• Save $ toward RYT-200.

Running

• Run a sub 2 Half Marathon.
• Run a sub 52 minute 10k.
• Run a PR (even if it's an auto PR, for goodness sake!).
• Run and race with friends.
• Make some new running friends.