Patience, the NEW Endurance Sport!

I did this but I don't remember it at all.  oh wait, it was raining I think.  Just  a trickle :)

I ran on the canal trail instead of the road.  It was nice.  I think the uneven surface bugs my knees.

11:16 ave

40 minute bike ride with Anna.  She had an asthma attack so we turned around.  Good thing she had her inhaler ;)

my chest hurts a bit today.  I've been noticing a bit of pain here and there for the past few days.  I am going to get a massage from Anna and try for 3 miles tonight.  I don't want a full on attack.

I took off and ran anyway.  i was getting all melancholy sitting around.  I need to get a life!

71 degrees in the shade.  I ran in the sun ;)

11:39 ave

Bad news.  David fell from the roof last night and landed on the driveway.  He has a few serious fractures.  His calcaneus is pretty much shattered and his distal fibula is broken along with all of the ligaments that hold the ankle together.  He will have surgery to put it all back together hopefully next Friday.  We have to wait and see how it heals before they proceed.  He has to be totally off of the leg with the foot elevated until the surgery and for at least two weeks after.  Then he will be in a wheel chair or knee scooter for at least 12 weeks.  Then I guess some kind of boot or somehting.  They will screw the bones all back together and try to repair the joint as best they can.  They will use bone grafts to fill in the parts where the bone fragments are too small to salvage.  The doc is confident that they will get all of the ligaments back where they go.  This surgery is very much a "we'll just have to see how it goes" kind of thing.  He will hopefully be able to return to work in 3 weeks.

Please pray that it all goes perfectly well.  This type of surgery carries a high risk of bone infection along with many less than favorable outcomes.

11:00ave.  

Thought I'd better do some running.  Even a little will help with the stress.

No run.  REALLY depressed and sulking. :p

11:41 ave  I figured there is so much that I cannot control, I'd better do the things I can.  I will run every day that I can.

11:27 ave

Beautiful morning.  David is feeling a TON better.  I sure hope that they can operate on Friday.  We need to get this healing business going ;)  Our sweet neighbors brought over a LazyBoy for him.  Now he can sit in the living room too.

Great run with KimR. 

ave 10:37

David's swelling is coming down.  Hopefully the Doc agrees at his appointment tomorrow :)

I had horrible nightmares about David going into cardiac arrest during surgery.  This led to a pretty good panic/anxiety attack.  I couldn't run.  I just focused on getting the kids to my brothers house so I could get that off of my list of worries.  It helped!  THANK YOU, MANDY!!!

COuldn't sleep past 5.  Needed to leave for surgery by 6:15 so I ran a quick 2.

The surgery went better than the doc had expected considering how bad the break was.  They had a hard time getting his pain under control.  Finally they gave him morphine but this caused him to stop breathing every time he fell asleep.  After what seemed forever, they got the meds right and the pain under control.  Everyone at TOSH was very nice.

I was going to run when we got home but it is raining cats and dogs.  I am going to take a nap.  If it's better later, I'll try to get some in.  I am POOPED!  David is finally sleeping :)

11:24 ave

Very slow and hard run :p  I was hoping for perky and loose, but it was achy and tired.  I'm glad I did it and it's over. :)

Serious tummy issues.  I was too afraid to run...

11:48

early run.  I am getting my bum kicked with all that has been going on around here :(   I can't skip runs anymore. ...although yesterday was probably a good one to skip...

first five 12:00 ave, 2nd 5 13:00 ave

What a SLOW painful, agonizing run! :(  Sheer drudgery.  Ok- it wasn't totally agonizing as much as the drudgery.  I did try a new gu that was FANTASTIC!  It is by Boom and it's the grape pomegranate.  YUMMY!!! :)

I am guessing that the stress is kicking my bum.  Those 10 felt like the mile 11-20.

Mile one and two were TERRIBLE.  Mile 3 was OK.  I cried my eyes out for a quarter mile at the end of mile 3.  Mile 4 and 5 were fine :)  I was really mad for the first two miles and really happy I had gone for a run the last two.

Oh and some STUPID kids broke the windows out of my daughters car last night.  The police said that there were a ton of vandalism last night.  This happend in Spanish Fork last weekend and then the second night they slashed the tires.  We are moving all of the cars into the yard tonight.  David may prop his lazy boy in the front entry way all night with his BB gun and wait for them to return.

600 IM minus the butterfly ;)  I guess it really isn't an IM.  It felt really good to swim :)  I was surprised that it did not kill me, like it did last year on my first day.

10:22 ave Laps- 11:51, 10:41, 10:08, 10:03, 9:41

So at one mile I decided to make this a tempo.  I was going for 10mm. The first quarter mile of mile 2 was slow and.... GOAL!!!!  WE JUST SCORED!!!!!!! USA!!!!!  ....WE JUST WON!!!!!!!!!!!! USA!!!!

I don't remember what I was saying :)  Ok-  I was still deciding what my plan was for the run in the first part of mile 2.  I am very happy that I did this run.  I have been feeling SO bad about my running.  This was not easy, mile 4 was the worst, mile 5 was the easiest.

and one more for the road.... GGGGGGGOOOOOOOOO AAAAAAALLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!

11:36 ave

recovery run.  felt lie a recovery run ;p  Hit a few sprinlers.  Walked up a few steep hot hils ;)  Glad to be home drinking my apricot smoothie :D

1100 meter swim.  It felt GREAT!

10:57 ave Laps-11:45, 11:24, 11:12, 11:04, 10:17, 11:02, 9:52

The goal was to run this at 11mm average or better.  Goal accomplished :)  I started this run at 9:15pm.  I have never run at night before.  A cop flipped around to check me out.  He took off as soon as he could see that I was an old lady ;) 

With about two miles to go, I turfed it.  Splat!  If it haddn't been pitch black, a bunch of loitering teens, would have had a good laugh ;) I ran it off.  I have skinned hands, knees and a bump here and there.  My left hip hurts and my right calf feels like it's pulled. I don't remember hitting my teeth, but they hurt.  I did an ice bath as soon as I came in the door.  Oh well.  I'm pooped and I don't think I'll run at night again :P

***Morning after note- don't do longer runs at night.  It makes for a rough night of sleep and waking up feeling like CRAP! :p  I have a bruised knee cap.

11:12 ave

recovery run.  My left knee is very sore to kneel on.  Stretching and praying are a problem ;)  Running was fine.  I found the spot I fell on.  It's not much of a surprise I fell there at all.

The LONGEST slowest HOTTEST run EVER!!  How's that for drama????  I ended up walking in the shade at the end whenever there was some.  I was supposed to go swimming this morning, but I was WAT TOO TIRED!

Eclipse tonight with my girls and THE girls, Michelle and McKenzie!  I think someone else is coming, but I don't remember ;)  We are going to have SO much fun!  My little chicks are going to wait in line while us full grown chickens cackle over dinner.  We'll get the baby chicks some pizza ;)