With my big spring races behind me and my big fall races a few months away, I want to spend my summer training for injury free running. I stayed injury-free last year, but I can tell that my back-to-back PRs took a toll. My ITB is making its presence known again, my piriformis is threatening to join in on the fun, and my legs feel tired.
I only have one tip for fitting my race training into my schedule, and that is to get up at dark o’clock and get it done! You may find better advice from Erika, Patty, and April, and others joining the Tuesdays on The Run Link-Up.
I wasn’t always a morning person. Before I had kids I would stay up until the wee hours of the morning and sleep until noon on weekends. But then I had kids who woke up at 6:00 or 7:00 no matter how late I stayed up, so I started going to bed earlier so I could get up when they did. When I started exercising (I didn’t always do that either!), I got up a little bit earlier so I could do an exercise video before I had to help them get ready for school. Now they are in college, but I still get up early to exercise in the morning. Why?
Last weekend I had a few bananas that needed to be baked into something. Since I had just made a batch of banana bread with matcha green tea powder, I decided to experiment with a new recipe based on baked oatmeal banana muffins. I ended up with these healthy oatmeal banana apple raisin muffins, and decided that they were worth sharing.
When I wrote about the fear I have to stare down every time I get on my bike, I was struck by Carla’s comment about how she feels the same way about running. Running? How can you be afraid of running?
I will let Carla tell you about her running worries, but the more I thought about it, the more I realized that there are some aspects of running that scare me. Continue reading
Now that we are almost halfway through May (how did that happen???), I figured it was time to set share my May goals.
![The Ultimate Coffee Date](http://got2run4me.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Ultimate-Coffee-Date.png" "The Ultimate Coffee Date")
