Running

Amanda on December 11th, 2010

About 9 months ago, I decided I wanted to run the Turkey Trot held in Buffalo on Thanksgiving. All summer, I trained using the Couch 2 5K training program. After I ran the 5K in September, my training kind of went to hell and life interfered. By the time the Turkey Trot rolled around, I […]

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Amanda on December 4th, 2010

I have about 2 weeks worth of pictures that I’ve been ignoring along with this blog. 😉 I took a ton of (mostly out of focus) pictures of the Turkey Trot on Thanksgiving. I thought I’d share this one quickly. Please note the rain on my glasses. 😉 I’ll post more pictures and the full […]

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Amanda on October 25th, 2010

We went out for a walk/job on the Amherst bike path yesterday. Both times we’ve gone, we go in one direction for about 20 minutes (around half way) with the boys in the stroller. Then we turn around and on the way back, Mike lets the boys out of the stroller to walk or run. […]

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Amanda on October 2nd, 2010

On June 22, I started a training program called Couch to 5K. The program is 9 weeks long and eases you into running by alternating walking and jogging. Each week you progressively do more jogging and less walking until week 9 when you jog for 30 minutes straight. My ultimate goal is to run an […]

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