Patience, the NEW Endurance Sport!

This was a really slow run.  It felt good.  I am noticing that I don't get the same high after a run when I don't go as fast.... hmmmmm

I woke up early.  When I finally looked at the clock it was 5:50am, so I got up and ran :)  It was SO beautiful out this morning.  The moon was peaking it's face out from behind dots of clouds strewn across the dark sky.  Yes, I am feeling a little poetic this morning.  Hopefully I am spelling correctly ;)

56 minutes for my run.  Not too bad for an early morning run, 13 hours from my last run.  I have an appointment with Brady for next week.  My knee is not getting worse at all, it is just not getting any better either.  I'm off to buy some new running shoes :D  Best day ever!!

10:35 ave.  Nice run with KimR and her son Max.  It was fun to run with a 14 year old boy.  He's surge past us and then walk a bit while we caught up.  He held his own well.  The last half he stuck with us pretty much the whole time until the Little Veyo at the end.  He totally smoked us :)  My neuroma got mad a t mile six as usual :p  I ate like a truck driver yesterday, so I need to watch it today.  I am just a Jezabel when it comes to food!

2 quick miles with a sad, sad potty break :(

I forgot to blog this run.  It was a HORRIBLE run.  Ok, maybe not HORRIBLE, but definitely at C-.  The roades were covered in frozen slush.  I'll call is sl-ice-sh.  For the last mile I could run in the road and then hit the sl-ice-sh while cars passed.  I also had to take another VPB, which is irritating :p

Oh, I saw Brady on Monday.  he thinks my knee is no big deal.  I can still run!  HIP HIP Hooray!!!  He wants to me to lay off some of my hip stretches and then see him in two weeks.

what a fun run!!!  Ashley, my beautiful 15 year old, ran the first half with me :)  Then I ran the loop again for 5.  It is 40 degrees with a bit of a breeze and TONS of BEAUTIFUL SUN!!!  I am so happy to see the sun :)

More than an hour of a KILLER bike ride, pacing Michelle for a tempo.  She and Travis ROCKED it and they kicked my trash the last 2 miles.  I am SO out of bike shape!!! :)

2:24/11:04 ave

met KimR at 7 for a LONG run.   Not too bad of a pace considering that there was a bit of walking here and there :)  I actually had 2:29 on my garmin, but I forgot to turn it off at Kim's potty stop at IFA.  It was a good 5-7 minutes there ;D  My legs were TRASHED from the bike ride.  They weren't sore, just really not in the mood for a long run.  We took turns telling eachother the story lines of movies we had just seen.  It worked well.

Shot blocks make me sick.  No more of them.

I got my new shoes today :)

My ITB twinged at mile 8 and at mile 11.5, full on cried like a 4 year old at Target who is not getting the $15 dollar toy he wants when he is only alowed at $2 toy!  (yes, that happened today :).  We just ran slower and it was ok.  I called Brady and will see him on Monday.  HE wants me to ice it for the weekend.

I don't know if any of this is spelled correctly, I am too tired to check.  I need to do a 10 second tidy on the house.  It's a wreck!

My shower is broken, so I have to shower in the dungeon (how do you spell dungeon??).  It will be 10-14 days for the part to come :(  I may have to remodel the dungeon bathroom asap.  It is HIDEOUS!!!  You'd think at some point even a teenager would break down and clean it.  Man oh man, shower curtains hide a lot!

~54:00/10:48 ave

Inaugural run in my new shoes.  They felt great :)  I love that they are finally NOT ORANGE!  I have SO many orange shoes :p

Nice warm stiff head wind for mile two.  All the parts felt good :)

Weird weird weird! All night long I had sharp chest pain.  I got up at 6 am to go run.  When I moved the pain was worse.  I was pretty freaked out and I tried to figure out what I should do.  I thought about what they would do in the ER.  The first thing they do, or one of them, is to give antacids  to make sure it is not heartburn.  I took a hand full of tums.  The pain did not go away, but the sharpness dulled instantly :)  I am guessing that it was just some freak heartburn?  I was too afraid to run, in case it was more sinister.  I guess this is about a 6 on the lame skip running scale.

7 miles 1:14:29/10:38 ave  Laps-10:47, 9:49, 10:01, 9:56, 10:08, 10:00, 13:48(walking, drinking, waiting for cars)

5 mile tempo 49:54/9:58 ave

This baby was hard.  Mile 4 was terrible!  There was suddenly this head wind and a gradual up hill.  When we started mile 5 our lap pace was 10:38 and I was TICKED/heartbroken.  I was so sad that we would not get in a good tempo.  I tried to give the garmen to KimR to finish the temop without POKEY me!  She wouldn't take it and LOOK, we pulled it out!  The tempo average was PERFECT!  the goal was a 10mm, 5 mile tempo! :)

I am SO glad tha Kim was there with me :)  I am also really glad that we stashed some water after our 1 mile warm up to get at the end of the temop.  It is in the high 50's and I am a happy camper!!!

11:33 ave  HOT outside.  I'll write more why I have not been running lately.

I mentioned last tuesday that I was having pretty good chest pain.  Anyhoots, early Thursday morning, about 1am, I woke up with the severe chest pain again.  By 4:30am, I was in a tremendous amount of pain.  David took me to the ER.  The rushed me back and hooked me up to all of the machines.  Fortunately, the pain kept up for all of the tests.  They all came back negative for heat attack. Yipee :)  Once they told me my heart was fine, I begged them to let me go.  The Doc told me that I have costochondritis.  Basically it is an inflammation of the joints in my ribs attaching to my sternum.   After seeing a few other doc's, it looks like there is a problem in my spine, most likely arthritis.  Finally, today I am feeling all back to normal :)  I have been on anti-inflammatory and strict rest.  Since I felt so good today, I tried out the running.  If all goes well tonight, I'll run in the morning.

57:00/11:24

Nice slow run :)  My back & chest tweaked a bit, but not too bad.  Anna massaged my back right after my run and said that it was much looser today :)  I did 45 minutes of yoga last night, and as always, I am NEVER going to get lax on my yoga again!!! ;D

suckiest run EVER!  AND, my browser shut down mid blogging and I lost all of my GREAT whiny details :p  I'll see if I can squeeze a bit more wine out of me ;D

This was supposed to be a 7 mile run with a 5 mile tempo in the middle.  Well, when the warm up was bad, I should have guessed that this was not going to fly.  Mile one of the tempo, 10:05, not what I wanted, but all that there was in my tanks.  Mile 2, 10:01, better, maybe this would be ok.  Maybe I can do this tempo and the world will be right :)  Did I mention the rain???  Light rain and breezy.  Mile three, I am struggling to get this mile to a 10.  Stupid shoe comes untied.  I can't get the pace back.  At the mid way, .5 of mile three, we turn around to come back, STRAIGHT INTO A STIFF HEAD WIND!  It just plain knocks the guts out of me.  I can't run a 10 to save my life, let alone with this bugger of a head wind.  The worst part was that I couldn't run it even with a stiff tail wind, that had to have been there!  So this really does a number on my head.  I actually yell out, "You've got to be kidding me!!!"  The farmers, if they were DUMB enough to be out in this weather, would have called the mental hospital!  I am ticked.  Well, we head east now, the wind is at our side.  They said the storm/winds would be coming from the South.  Not out there.  North wind :p  So nearly to mile 4 I hit a wall that was the size of Texas.  I have hit the wall only a few time.  this was more like a semi.  I had to walk.  It was like someone just popped my running balloon and I was a deflated soggy piece of rubber on the road.  I told Kim to go, but she wouldn't. We walked/jogged home, all soggy and down trodden.  Kim didn't mind too much, becasue she had more miles to go for the day.  I am still ticked about this run and want some revenge.  I'll get it on Saturday.  Brady wants me to do at least 10.  I'll do them at 10:30 to practice for the 1/2 next weekend.

Here is what the problem was....I think.  I woke up at 7, shouted at my family to CLEAN THE HOUSE!  We did for 2 hours until Kim came for me at 9.  I forgot to eat breakfast :(  I always eat 2 hours before a tempo.  I always drink.  I did nothing.  I had a little water at 7 and then cleaned and vacuumed my house like a mad woman.  I did not realize this until about mile 2.   So I think my lesson is learned.  I could have gu'd if it had dawned on me that I did not eat at all.

I was going to modify my running to make sure I was doing ok and not get more chest pain for the 1/2, but Brady wants me to train like normal to see if I flare up again.  We'll see :)

11:09 ave. Slow run.  I threw in 7 strides.  They felt good.  I was pretty pooped when I was finished with the run.  I was only going to do 5, then decided to do six.  When I was almost home, I threw one more in for fun.  My first two miles were pretty slow, with mile #3 being it's regular lousy pace.

I am going to try to get in more whole grains.  I kinda skip them a lot :(

Short mystery time and length run :)  I know it was 3.5 for sure, but I had to run a catalog to my daughters work and I am not sure how much it added.  The run felt great.  There was a bit of IT complaints.  Not sure what is up with that.  I wanted to go longer, but since it was so late in the afternoon, and we are doing 10 in the AM, I thought I should just be moderate :)

I ate a good carb/protein balanced dinner.  I am excited for tomorrows final test run before the 1/2 next saturday.

2:06/11:43

This did not feel very good.  I was tired for the whole thing :(  I'm glad that I was with KimR.  She has to do 20 today.  I'm glad that I am not her.  The good news that there was no sign of IT issues :)  I'm glad to be done :)

3 miles walk/jogging with David to try to find a nice stretch for a Walk-It Challenge June 5th

I have cut my points recently and my runs have really suffered, so I have created a new plan. I am going to divide my WPA differently than before. I am also going to up my daily points by 2. I changed the answer to number 5 on how I spend my day to 2. Any hoots, here is the plan, Sunday 30 (6 WPA), Monday 24 (0 WPA), Tuesday 28 (4 WPA), Wednesday 28 (4 WPA), Thursday 28 (4 WPA), Friday 32 (8 WPA) and Saturday 43 (19 WPA). This is a total of 35 WPA and 10 activity points used. I have a tempo on Wednesdays and a long run on Saturday. I am hoping that this will help me feel better. I'll do this for a few weeks and see if things improve. I'm also going to do my best to make sure that 95% of my points are REALLY good stuff. I've got to get the most bang for my buck if I am going to continue to train this hard and be able to feel good and lose weight.

SLOW run this morning. I didn't feel very good. Last week was my highest mileage week in a long time. I'll be that had something to do with it. My chest was really hurting a bunch. I saw Brady this afternoon and were are going to work at this. Now we get to go to Maceys for dessert with the kids. I am SO excited, I've got plenty of points for a nice DIPPED cone :)

Significant back pain through the night.  I'm not sure if it is just due to the work over from yesterday or yesterday was just the beginning of a flare up.  I have a call into Brady.  I skipped my run this morning as to not aggravate it, plus I was sleeping to make up for being awake for three hours in the middle of the night :p  I'm cleaning the house right now.  I figure some moving will do me good.  I'll skip the vacuuming and save it for the girls ;)

Pretty good pain last night at work.  I finally took some tylenol and that seemed to take the edge off of it.  I took a lortab before bed.  I slept well.  The pain this morning was pretty good.  No running today.  I am going to have Anna work me over after school and then again tonight.  I really need to run 2 miles the the next two days, each.  I don't need much, but I tend to be faster with even a little running.  I am really hoping to be pain free tomorrow and friday so I will know that Sat is going to be ok.  I am trying to eat really well to make sure I am ready for Saturday.

The tri I was thinking about for june 5th is out.  I am going to take a really low mile month and a 1/2.  This costochondritis can last up to 3 months :(  I am trying not to FREAK out, but I have been bursting in to tears intermittently.  Oh man.  stupid.  Oh, and did I mention that all I can think about is chocolate???  Thank heavens Michelle is planning a chocolate feast for Saturday night :)  Have I told you lately that I love you, Michelle????

I need to plan a healthy, low fat, low calorie, very good for me, birthday menu for tomorrow.  I don't want to go nuts becasue I am saving the NUTS for Saturday.  Nuts and chocolate....mmmmmmmmmmm.....

So, I have had a Festivus/Birthday miracle.  I had very little discomfort through the night :)  It's after lunch and still no real pain.  Just a dull ache, which is a HUGE improvement! :)  Here's hoping I have no pain tomorrow too :)  I really want this 1/2 of Saturday!

Day two of feeling GREAT!  Just a bit of residual soreness :)  I can live with that.  I was thinking about running, but I just don't want to risk it.  I am REALLY excited about the half.