Christmas Vacation

Our Christmas vacation is almost at a end. It has been a wonderful week and even though it started out rainy, it ended sunny and warm. I enjoyed time spent with Maddie, Dan and Jan too!

Team Christmas Card

This is my team's holiday card.

Taken on the beach in chilly Florida!

Speed

I feel like I'm on a roll right now with increasing my pace. Today I ran two miles at the gym and finished at 21.48, which is a 10.74 minute mile! My goal was to run 11 minute average pace and I'm exceeding that goal. I'm stoked! Marilyn said I would be running a 9 minute mile before long and maybe she's right! The trick is sustaining it for long runs. Not going to worry about that now though. Just working on speed for two mile runs for the next two weeks.

Christmas Family Video

Madison had the Christmas Family Video that's at the top of my blog on her blog and it was soooo good that I wanted to share it with you! It's my Christmas gift to all of those who read my blog. Enjoy!
Go HERE to see the video if the above link is missing. The video above is a little off, so go to this link to see it in good detail.

Florida Training

I was in lovely Florida this past week for a week of training at Meg's house. My brain blew up only a few times with all the information we went over, so that's a good thing. The weather was cool, but Florida is very beautiful.

Had lunch one day at a restaurant on the beach!

My new team!

Amber and me on the catamaran

Me, Amber and Lisa chillin' on the net at the front of the boat.

I think this is Tucker. Meg & Kim have two bull dogs and a little fluffy dog.

Turkey Trot

Randy ran the Fresno Turkey Trot at Woodward Park with me today :) Well, he started out with me than ran past me, waaaay past. He came in at 30 minutes and I came in at 35 minutes. I checked my watch and my average pace was 11.10, which is AMAZING for me! In fact, I think it was even faster than that, because I noticed my watch was still timing after I stopped it. I ran a 14.45 average pace at the half-marathon in May and while I don't think you can compare the two, because of the mileage, 11.10 is a DEFINITE improvement in my time. Happy Day!

After the trot!

We were FREEZING waiting for the race to start!

Almost ready!

Ran, for a moment, with Tracy. She's uber fast!

We did it!!!!

Running New York Style

So my next movement goal was to run in Central Park.  The route is 6 miles and so I was gearing for that, but Madison hadn't run in over a month and Randy was recovering from hurting his knee. I just want to state for the record, because this will probably be the last time I'll be able to say it, I out ran both of them! I ended up running 4.6 miles. Mad and I ran together and we started with 4/1 splits, then went to 3/2 splits. We were going pretty fast, some 9s, 10s and 11s. It was a beautiful day to run, crisp and glowing with the fall colors.