*Met my friends for some trail miles and my legs literally felt like jello afterwards.

I can’t look up for a picture while running on the trails or else I will for sure fall.

*It was so foggy out there and at this point you can normally see the entire valley but yesterday you couldn’t see a thing.  We also kept hearing weird noises which meant my heart rate was quite high between that and the hills.

*Final stats + 1200 ft of climbing + That’s not my weekly total since I didn’t put all of my treadmill miles on there.

*I have no idea how this guy got in our backyard!

*Andrew had quite the scavenger hunt set up for the kids.

*We had family pictures taken and then celebrated the fact that we actually got a few pictures where everyone was smiling.

*We tried a place called Tru Religion and it was fantastic.

*I found out while we were there that Skye prefers to dip her pancakes into ketchup.

*Did you know that there is such thing as root beer float milk?

*Andrew’s working on a guest post for you this next week!

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Here is how my last week looked and I’d love to hear about yours!

Monday:  10 miles @ 7:59 average.

Tuesday:  7 miles @ 7:45 average on the treadmill at home

Wednesday:  Went to the gym and did a 3.5 miles warm-up and then 2 miles (@6:45 pace) into my 4 miles tempo and Skye was done with the child watch so I grabbed her and finished at home for a total of 8 miles.

Thursday: 10 miles @ 7:55 average

Friday: 8.3 miles @ 8:22 average

Saturday:  12 miles @ 9:02 trails!

Sunday:  Off

55.3 miles for the week!

I’m focusing on building a base again along with some strength on trails before jumping into the speed work routine!

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What was your best run last week?  Hardest run?

What do you have going on today?

Ordering brunch… what do you get?

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Good morning everyone!  Today’s post is sponsored by Backcountry and I have an awesome discount code for you at the end of this post for the best gear to help you to keep enjoying winter. I know that there have been some problems with Backcountry recently so I waited to post this until I saw … Continue Reading

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