Moving Day

Mike and I have decided to have a "family blog." So most of my posts from now on will be here: http://www.macpfisters.blogspot.com/. See you there!

Winning Smile: Devin's Senior Photos

Believe it or not, he is actually as cool as he looks.

Garmin

I have had a Garmin a long time but I just barely bothered to figure out how to use the online features. The following is my half marathon. Except something went wrong and it somehow recorded and extra 22 hours so ignore the total time and only pay attention to the moving time. If you are really bored and want to "View Details" you can see me gradually giving up and letting my blisters and chaffed bits get the better of me. Also, please note the extra 1700 calories I burned. Believe me I replaced all of those with pizza and french fries.

Moving Time: 02:41:39
Average Speed: 12:09 min/mi

Our Half

We ran, hiked and ate (a lot). It was a beautiful trip to Moab. The best part was taking a vaca with all my favs. My second favorite part was finding out more than anyone should know about how and where my buddies had chaffed. Just part of the 13.1 miles of fun.

a bit about running

If you are a really fast runner, please avert your eyes from this post.

I am not a fast runner. In some circles, what I do is not even called running. But I am training for a half marathon and had a bit of a breakthrough the last few weeks. We have been consistently running at about 12:30 per mile. We were doing that whether it was a 4 mile run or a 10 mile run (actually we averaged 12:38 on the 10 miler). But for some reason on our 11 mile run, we dropped our average by 48 seconds per mile. Then today on our 12 mile run we dropped another 9 seconds.

I think it is probably more mental than anything but I am very proud of us because are so speedy these days.