Great Workout

Well yesterday I decided to do my long run for the week since Shaun and his brothers wanted to play racketball at the gym and I hate doing my long runs at my house on the treadmill since it is extra hot in the den. I dropped off the girls in the kids center and got started around 5:15pm. Shaun picked up the girls and went home around 6:15 and I stayed to finish out the run. I did 14 this time. That is what I am up to now. Next week will be 16 then 18.... and so on. I printed out a training workout for a marathon off the internet for a 18 week training time and even though I made up my own workout training plan it ended up being pretty similar to the one I found. The longest run they have you do is 20 miles and that is 4 weeks before the race. I think that I will try to do 26 once, three weeks before because the reason I am doing this marathon is not only to do it, but I want to get a good time and qualify. Anyway... back to my 14 mile run... it took me an hour and 45 minutes. It wasn't brutal, but it got harder after the 10th mile. Luckily I had my Breaking Dawn book to keep me occupied during the run and not get too bored. Some girl started talking to me during my last 2 miles and I was able to talk with her without flying off the treadmill or running out of breath so I must be increasing my endurance.
Today I wasn't planning on doing a workout... taking a break sounded good today after feeling a little sore from the run last night, but then both girls fell asleep for a nap at the same time and I couldn't help myself. I ended up running at 7.7mph for .75 miles, then running at 9 mph for the last .25 of the mile, then doing 2 of the core workout exercises and repeating this for 4 miles. Then I ran the last 2 miles at 7.7mph with a .25 mile sprint at the end. This ended up being 6 miles in 45:45 7:38 minute miles, with a great core workout during. I also finished by doing the core workout exercises twice at the end. It was a great workout and I even got a shower and cleaned up a little before Keilah woke up and shortly after Brea woke up too.