2011 Miles logged and Goals

I finally was feeling well enough today to get out and log my FIRST running miles of 2011. And it's already January 16th! Yikes! It was COLD but felt great to sweat again. My lungs were burning breathing in the cold air, but at least I could breathe out of my nose again!

On Friday Steve and I went to a nearby State Park, Purgatory Chasm. It is by far one of our favorite places to visit, any season of the year. We snowshoed for about an hour and a half in the peaceful, snow-covered woods. It was awesome and I can't wait to do it again.

On another note, I have finally finalized my goals for 2011. I am going to try and check in at the end of each month to track my progress in each of these areas. In no particular order:

1 - Run/walk/hike/snow-shoe 500 miles

2 - Eat healthy, natural food. I wish that our family could afford to eat organic 100% of the time, but we will do the best with what we have. We really have made some good changes this year away from processed food.

3 - Get Munchie potty-trained. He will be 2 1/2 on Feb. 1 and we have been less than consistant so far in our efforts

4 - Try to be more patient with Munchie in his ever-curious 2-year-old learning

5 - Go to church more

6 - Create and list at least one scrapbook per week on my Etsy site

7 - Limit my time on the computer - I really need to stop mindless facebook-surfing of "friends" that I haven't seen or talked to in 15 years

8 - Expand our family :)

Welcome 2011 and Re-opening of my Etsy shop

So 2011 is here! We had lots of good times had with friends ringing in the new year up in VT, but now it is back to business! I had stopped taking custom orders for a few weeks during Christmas so that I could finish up my own shopping and holiday stuff. I am proud to say that my Etsy shop, Laura Elaine Designs, is now back up and functioning at 100%. I have eight Runner Race Bib Books in the works, with the one I just completed HERE. The front cover of it is shown above.

I will be finished up the others over the next few days and listing them as I get a chance! I hope to re-stock the shop with lots of new designs for bib books.

If you are looking for a certain color and/or theme, please feel free to ask! I also have some cute new die-cuts that I can personalize the "runner" on the front to match hair color, hair style, shirt, skirt, shorts, and/or sneakers! Super cute!

I hope to post my goals for 2011 (running, scrapbooking, and otherwise!) later this week. I have been enjoying reading everyone else's goals.....very motivating! Keep it up!

LE

26 miles to go

**Don't forget about my current giveaway for a Runner's Race Bib Scrapbook HERE**

I only have 26 miles left to go until I achieve my goal of running 400 for the year! I find it kind of ironic because I have yet to catch the marathon bug, even as much as my husband has pestered me about running one! So today when I logged my latest miles on DailyMile.com and saw that I only had 26 left I thought it was ironic....someday....someday....

It was another treadmill day, since it was only 8 degrees when I left the house. No, that is not a typo...it was in the single digits when I left and there was NO WAY that I was running outside! C'mon, if it's going to be THAT cold, then we at least need some snow!!!!

Goals = Accountability

**Reminder - enter my giveaway HERE for a Runner's Race Bib Book!**


Accountability, aka guilt, is kicking in. Since my running plan of trying to maintain my miles without training for a specific race wasn't working, I decided to set the goal of completing 400 miles by the end of the year. I know this doesn't sound like a lot, but I really needed it to get my butt in gear. So far, it's working pretty well. I had a TON of stuff I could have done this morning before I went to work, and it was FREEZING outside. Great excuses, right? WRONG! I got my butt to the gym and cranked out 4 miles on the treadmill! Whoo-hoo :) If it wasn't for committing to the 400 miles, I don't know if I would have done this. Plus, it made it easier to eat those 2 cookies at work. Geez I need a lot of help this time of year!


Have a great one!
Laura Elaine

Monday Meanderings

So July is over already, I cannot believe it! Oh Summer I love you and don't want you to be over yet! It's true with all of the heat and humidity we've had up in New England this summer, running has been more of a challenge. But I still love the warm weather and being outside and swimming and all that good stuff! August please go S-L-O-W
I've been kind of a slacker lately in regards to blogging, scrapbooking, and yes, running. I had high hopes to get in some good miles this past weekend, especially with the nice break we had in the humidity, but my plans were scrapped! The little guy picked up a stomach bug at day care - he was up all Thursday night, and by 3 am Friday night/Saturday am, both hubby and I got it. So today I am finally feeling almost 100%. My stomach was still a little off this morning, so I decided not to push it. And when I got home at 8:45 tonight after a 10 hour day, there was no way I was lacing up.
So tomorrow it is! I got this post in tonight, I'm gonna run in the morning, and I have 2 scrapbook plans for nap time tomorrow afternoon. I need to get back on track!!
Goal for the week: 3 to 4 runs, at least 10 miles total. One day of Pilates (yeah, haven't done that in a while too!)
Have a great week!
Laura