Month 5 Recap

Last week marked the end of my 5th month in working towards my goal of running 1,000 miles by the end of this year! 

See recap below:

Talk about another low mileage month! There was quite a bit of a gap between May 5th and 13th due to recovery from the Pittsburgh Half Marathon. My knee was killer after that! 

I completed 61 miles this month compared to 64 in April, 89 in March, 76 in February and 80 in January. 

My low mileage is a bit discouraging, as I wanted to do more this month than April because my knee has been feeling better. But with it starting to get hotter out and after starting Insanity mid-May, I found more excuses coming my way. 

I need to get back into making a running calendar to schedule out my runs, instead of just estimating what I need to do, or saying "Oh, I can do more tomorrow to make up for it" (which never actually ends up happening). The calendar worked for me the first 3 months, so I am going to make a schedule for June tonight. If it's too hot outside, that's why we have a treadmill (even though I'm not a big fan of it)! I'm going to suck it up!

Also, by not having a race scheduled this month, it may help me gain more mileage for June. When I do races, it does give me more miles at one time, but I end up having to take almost a week off to recover..which puts a damper on the month and those rest days add up quickly!

I was really wanting to be at 500 miles by the end of June, since that marks the halfway point, but I'm not sure that'll happen. I am going to try and get at least 80 miles this month, which would bring me up to 450 by July, 50 miles behind schedule...yikes! I feel some 2-a-days coming...

Thanks again for the support and any advice is welcomed to help me keep pushing!

6/4/2013: Miles run - 370 of 1000. Miles remaining - 630 of 1000