Looking back, looking ahead W17/W16

I promise to provide a fuller report of today's buddy run tomorrow. I'm waiting on permission to post some pictures other people took. But I did get my 3 miles in (and then some, I think--details to follow), so that is a YES for the checklist.

Today marks the end of Week 17, and tomorrow is exactly 16 weeks until race day. (AAAAGGHH!)

What was I was supposed to do in Week 17? Did I do it?

• Sunday: 3 miles YES! (Group run)
  
• Monday: REST YES! (Heh.)
  
• Tuesday: 2.5 miles YES!
• Wednesday: CROSS-TRAIN for 30 minutes YES! (Me and Michelle, rockin' the Pilates...)
  
• Thursday: 3 miles YES! (Ran outside, yay!)
  
• Friday: CROSS-TRAIN for 30 minutes YES!
• Saturday: 3 miles (buddy run) YES!

It's SOOOO much easier to have a perfect week when the schedule's not chock-a-block with miles to run and things to do every single day of the week. I "only" ran 11.5 miles total, but my times are already so much better! I really think I was overtraining before.

Here's what I'm supposed to do in Week 16:

• Sunday: 3 miles
  
• Monday: REST
  
• Tuesday: 3 miles
  
• Wednesday: CROSS-TRAIN for 30 minutes
  
• Thursday: 3 miles
  
• Friday: CROSS-TRAIN for 30 minutes
• Saturday: 3 miles (group run)
  

Week 16 is our last "base" week, i.e., where the mileage is 3 miles or less on every run. Starting the first week of February, the long run (Saturday) gets steadily longer, and the Thursday run bumps up to 4 miles the week after that.

I got entries for my agility fundraiser from Tricia, Nanci, and Dawn, so that's another $60.00 that will go to LLS. These checks will not show up on the meter for several weeks, but it's such a boost having them come in. Thank you so much, ladies!