Mayday

May 2023 in review!

Total mileage for the month: 125.3 (plus 271 ElliptiGo miles)

• May 1-7: 11.5
• May 8-13: 3.4
• May 14-21: 30.4
• May 22-28: 50.9
• May 29-June 4: 62.6

Being back to a 10 mile morning felt
really great! #marvelousmay

Races/Workouts:

No races or real running workouts this month; I did a few workouts on the elliptigo but nothing really worth writing about. I did strides on May 29, then hill strides on May 30 while my running buddies did a real hill workout. I will return to workouts when I feel ready, hopefully mid-June.

Race I should have run but instead spectated

Long Runs:

• May 27: 12.2 miles (8:40), which felt good despite being slower than usual for a long run. My endurance returns quickly, but paces take longer! I did 10 miles on May 26 so those were back-to-back long runs at my current state.

Sweaty runch

Running Highlights:

• This definitely wasn't my best month, but being able to increase my running after 4 weeks of very little was a huge blessing.
• I run/walk spectated the Lincoln Marathon, where Casey placed 5th OAF on a warm day!
• My running group had a "spring banquet", which mostly meant we wore real clothes and went a couple of places that were not running-related.

Miles from Mentor banquet

Nebraska capitol building

Award from Running from Yeti,
3 months later

Life Highlights:

• My parents visited for a weekend and we saw Esther at the Sight and Sound Theatre in Branson, and went to Market in the Park in Rogersvsille, Sucker Days in Nixa, and Historic C Street in Springfield.
• Albani completed her freshman year and her second year in JROTC.

This was an amazing play!

JROTC awards

Tradition

Book club (which is also running group, lol!)

Books:

• Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
• Spare by Prince Harry
• Next Year in Havana by Chanel Cleeton (book club read)
• Circe by Madeline Miller
• The Greatest Stories Never Told by Rick Beyer
• Hang the Moon by Jeanette Walls
• Stone Cold Fox by Rachel Koller Croft
• Choosing to Run: A Memoir by Des Linden
• Note: Like April, I had a lot of 4-star reads, but no 5-stars this month.

Theme for the month:

• Mayday to start, Marvelous May to finish.