New PR!

I beat my A goal and ran a new, all-time PR (take that aging!).

Freihofer's Run for Women 5K

Official time: 22:51

Needless to say, I'm excited.

Race report to come . . .

Enjoy the rest of your weekend, everyone!

~ Felice

Winner! And race goals.

First things, first. Thank you all for entering my OnlineShoes.com/Saucony giveaway. You all really need some new shoes, huh? Too bad I could only pick one winner, but that's the deal. And the winner is . . .

Mel from Melissa Dishes!

Congratulations, Mel! Shoot me an email at felicehalf at yahoo dot com and I'll get you hooked up with your $100. I feel like Santa Claus!

Let's hope I don't feel like him when I'm racing tomorrow.

Yeah, my race is tomorrow and I have goals. I also have history. I was checking out my race times for the Freihofer's Run for Women and I noticed that this year will be the 10th time that I have run this race! The first time was shortly after I moved upstate and started running. Here's what I've done in this race over the years:

2001 -- 25:58
2002 -- 23:37 (my course PR)
2003 -- 24:37
2004 -- 25:11
2005 -- 24:58
2006 -- 24:58
2007 -- didn't run because I was busy having a baby
2008 -- 24:16
2009 -- 23:47 (my post-baby course PR)
2010 -- 27:11 (almost 6 months preggo)


We know I definitely want to beat my preggo time, that's for sure! But I have more specific goals, as always. Using my recent training and races (including that 5K that wasn't . . .grr . . . ) my goals are:

C Goal -- 23:59 or better (7:43/mi pace -- gets me under 24)
B Goal -- 23:36 or better (7:35/mi pace -- beats my course PR)
A Goal -- 22:59 or better (7:23/mi pace -- gets me under 23)

I am going out there racing for my A goal, certainly, but I will be happy meeting any of the goals. Now I just need to do it!

Maybe I'll just think of this smiley face when I'm pushing to the finish:

Have a great weekend, everyone!

~ Felice

Cupcakes and races.

The Freihofer's Run for Women is in two days. Sure, it's "just" a 5K but it happens to be my goal race and I really want to run well. So I'm nervous. And have been. Because that's what I do: Get all kinds of freaked before my races.

But I also have the multiple birthday celebrations that are de rigueur these days with the preschool set. My little guy will be turning 4 (4!?!) so today was his preschool birthday party.

Dinosaur Train cupcakes were in order:

OK, yeah, the green doesn't match Tiny
(the pteranodon for those of you who don't have to watch the show over and over) but I tried.

An army of Buddy and Tiny!

Goofing out.

Conal had been asking for a Dinosaur Train cake for his birthday so I went for a modified version for the preschool party and did the cupcakes. I printed out about a million copies of an image that I grabbed from the infonet, cut them out, lined up two back-to-back and then taped them together with a toothpick in the middle. Viola! Instant (two hours later...) decoration!

The cakes for his next parties will be a different story. I really need to get on that . . .

In the meantime, though, I have a race to freak-out about prepare for. My last pre-race run is tonight and then I'll firm up my goals tomorrow. Woo hoo!

Have a great day, everyone! Don't forget to enter my two giveaways -- Onlineshoes.com/Saucony ends tonight and Bengay ends Monday.

~ Felice

Race week and May recap.

May was a pretty good month. I ran a fast 5K that wasn't, had a nice Mother's Day, got a new big freelance project after months of no work, ran some speeeeeeeedy intervals, had a fun Memorial Day weekend and finished up the month with a great birthday.

Lucky, lucky me! Here's some pics from the weekend:

Hiking the Indian Ladder Trail.

At the Indian Ladder Trail with Conal.

My two little guys!

Good times with great friends!

And now, back to the running. May was good running-wise. I had a treadmill accident so late-night or nap-time runs are out for me, for now. No problem -- the days are long and the weather is warm so I can run outside as I please.

May stats:


Running (miles): 90.5
Cross training (sessions): 4

I'm pleased with my overall mileage, considering that I am focusing on this little 5K coming up on Saturday. There were two workouts that I had to skip but, no matter. I'll be fine.

June should be interesting, as I ramp-up the mileage for the Boilermaker 15K in early July. And then I'm planning to run a 5K in August and I signed up for the Adirondack Half Marathon in September.

Keep on racing, I say.

And you, my friends, should keep on entering and voting!

OnlineShoes.com Saucony giveaway HERE!

Bengay giveaway HERE!

Voting ends TODAY!! Please show me some love and vote to keep me in the Top 25!!

AND . . . Check out my list of five fabulous bloggers HERE! They rock. For real.

Thanks for stopping by, everyone. Here's to a great June!

~ Felice