Patience, the NEW Endurance Sport!

Swim League finals are FINALLY over!  6.5 hours Wednesday night, 6 hours Friday night, and 6 hours today.  The kids all did GREAT and had a TON of fun.  I am pooped out!   And, wouldn't you know it, we are off to the pool for an afternoon with Michelle and her sweet boys.  I love how kids become the very best friends in a matter of minutes.

I am hoping to run this evening.  My knee feels GREAT!  I am so pleased :)

"Running is good for you.  Some days you feel it, other days you just have to believe." -Marc Parent

800 m IM :)  It felt really hard this evening.  I was pretty much dying after the first 50.

ave 11:39 :) Splits- 11:51(2 block walk), 11:30, 11:24, 11:42

The knee was irritated at the very end.  Did not like this route.  The flattest route around.  Slightly down hill for the first half which means a slight up hill for the last two :p

I need to get a foam roller today.  ***Michelle, I forgot to get it from you at the pool on Saturday :(  I'm gonna call Dr. Brady and see if I can get one from him after work today.  If not, I will be by to see you, Michelle, if it is still oK ;)

800m IM (minus the butterfly)  David says I can't call it an IM if I don't do the butterfly ;p  He is such a party pooper!!!  So what do I call it?  The Fly-less Medley? Marion's Moronic Medley?  I'm-a-dork-and-can't-fly Medley?  I Believe I Can't Fly Medley???

50:00, 11:54 ave, Splits-11:43, 11:45, 11:52, 12:03, 2:05(.2)

 POOPED on the run this morning.  I was HUNGRY and tired today.  I am very tender in the hips where the rolling KILLS!  My hip was aggravated during the first 3/4 mile but then gave up.  The knee started to twinge a bit at about 3.27 miles but did not do more than whine a bit. :)

So here is my next question-  Give me my morning routine.  Stretch, roll, run, stretch, roll?  Or run, stretch, run, stretch, roll???  Roll, stretch, run, stretch, roll?  I am doing the stretching and rolling 2 other times during the day,  I just am curious about what to do around my run :)  Oh yeah- don't forget I swim before all of this running stuff too ;)

OH oh oh, today when I got out of the pool, this lady told me that I was a GREAT swimmer!!!  I talked to her for a bit, it turns out that she is an injured runner with PF.  No wonder she thinks I can swim, she's one of those hydrophobic runners ;)

When I grow up, I want to live on the coast with amazing running trails with all of my running friends and have a heated outdoor pool with a track around it for speed work and a full time sports med pt/chiro and a fantastic massage therapist.  Oh yeah, and a chef and a laundress and a house keeper.  Wait- this need to be Smoothies hotel with beach front bungalows.  Anybody in??

Not feeling the love today. I HATE my flat route.  It is out in the fields and the Onion Day's 5k is in the midst of it.  I think the distain is psychological, but there non the less.  Because of my dislike for it, and the fact that they are doing road construction on it, I went for my old up and down hill route.  It did not work :(  I am going to have to find a flat route that does not go to the other side of the freeway or drive to the canal trail and run on that.  This is going to be tricky as there a hills all over the place around here :(

5:30 am- Went to the pool, only to find it closed for lightening watch :(  I think we are going to find another activity besides camping for the next few days.  It is supposed to thunder and lightening storms all weekend and I don't want any of my kids or husband or nieces or nephews or  BILs or SIL to BLOW UP and DIE!!! ;)  Maybe we will go camp out at the dollar movie ;)

60 minutes of swimming.  I did stop to talk to the FABULOUS Michelle :)  I went to the pool with David and his sister Barbara.  They taught me how to FLY!!!  Yes, I swam a 150 of FLY!!!  I believe I can FLY!

I did Jillian Michael's 30 day Shred  last night.  I also did sit ups and push ups.  Barbara brought me a stability ball.  Yeah!!!  I did a bunch the day before too, like 210 crunches and 50 push ups :)  I did FIVE guy push ups yesterday!!!  The fifth was my FIRST fifth EVER!!!

Now we are cooking "Throw up" on the camp stove.  Throw- up- sausage, hash browns, eggs with cheese grated over the top. :D   (I used turkey sausage and 2% cheese) The kids slept in the tent last night.  They also roasted hot dogs over the fire last night too while we slept in warm beds and went out for Mexican food :)  Good times!! :)

ave 11:20

I got to run with KIMMIE today :)  Yeah!!  We ran out to Benjamin.  It is pretty darn flat.  My knee got a little ticked at 4.3 miles.  There is no more irritation to the touch in my hip, so I am going to start the hip strength training this week.  I will do just 4 miles a day this week to make sure it is all healed up.  Next week, Kim can run with me on Monday, wed, and Fri. :)  I am very excited :)

Have a GREAT day :)  I am off to do something fun with my family.  David has been off work since last Thursday and doesn't go back until next Tuesday :)  It is our 19th wedding anniversary on Monday :)

DARN THAT ITB ALL TO HECK!!!!!  I just got 2 miles and DARN IT, poof, snafoo, owie!!! 

Kim, her two boys, David and I all went swimming this morning.  Kim and I went for a run.  I sent Kim on her way to get her run in.

It's our 19th Anniversary today.  I am off to get ready for a day of adventure.

Nope, nada, nothing. :(::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

I am taking the week off from everything to let the ITB heal.  I am VERY sad :(::::::::::

Last night when I foam rolled the ITB there was no pain at all :)  I have been doing it everyother night and that seems to be working well :)

Tomorrow I will run 2 miles, and if that goes well, I will repeat the 2 miles a day all week long, while continuing the stretching (morning and night) and rolling (every other evening).  If this week is Okee Dokee- then next week I will run 3 miles every day.  Four the next.  Here's hoping all will go well :)

Happy Sunday to y'all.  I am off to check out yesterdays race reports :)

23:08/11:34

It felt SO great to run this morning :)  I woke up at 5:30 all ready to go :)  The knee did GREAT until the last .1 of a mile.  It just squawked a bit, not much.  I stretched and rolled and am icing the knee right now. 

Where do y'all ice your ITB?  At the knee, or where the ITB is painful when you roll it???

Two cute really slow miles.  There was a twinge at .76m and then again just before home.  I slowed the pace down at .76 just to be sure.  The camber of the road when I run with the traffic seems to be a problem for my ITB.  (ITB leg lower than other well behaved leg).  I will go to the track tomorrow.  That should be fun being the first day of SCHOOL!  I HATE school!  I love the summer and I am going to be thrown into a funk of sadness until March.  Woe is me.... on a strange, but related note, I will be all alone two mornings a week as little Will is starting preschool in a few weeks and Mac is starting Kindergarten.  I have not been alone since 1992 ;)  Anna is taking the ACT next week and starting to apply to colleges.  I am having a really hard time NOT pushing BYU.  We were there last week and had such a GREAT time.  I know she'll have fun no matter where she goes, but I'd love to have here there.... anyway....

My friend called me at 9 pm last night and a bunch of us went to see The Time Traveler's Wife.  It was a bit strange, but I liked it.  Hey- any movie where Eric Bana time travels NAKED can't be all bad ;)

Nice run this morning.  I could not get up AT ALL!  I felt drugged.  I missed my girls leaving for their first day and only saw the boys off because they were running around like crazy people SCREAMING!! 

NO PAIN for my run.  There was a bit of a twinge when I tried to run faster, so I stopped that :)  This injury is healing so strangely.  I am noticing some weird things.  There must have been some adhesions along my quads and ITB.  It seems that as I get one area all healed and loose, it just moves to another place.  That foam roller is really becoming my best friend.  I just hope I can handle all of these boring stinky flat routes while everyone is getting all better :)

11:48 ave

I met Michelle at the Spanish Fork Reservoir at 6:30 this morning. It was SO cold!!! I wimped out and just walked in the water and talked to Michelle while she ran with her belt. It was SO fun to chat and disturb the fishermen ;) They were probably thinking, "I come out here so early to get AWAY from chatty women!" Anyway- it was super fun and I am still COLD, even after my run.

The run felt fine except that I have two emergency potty stops :( I called it quits after my second one at a local elementary school. I didn't want to chance an accident :p

Have a GREAT day!

Hola!  These two little miles are going to really spoil me :)  I am loving just being gone for a little bit :)  No pain at all today :)  I am pretty excited to try three miles next week :)  OH and I did 7 MAN push ups in a row last night with 5 more in the next two sets :D (thirty something all together with the girls in there)

GREAT DAY!!!  My boys and I got to hang out with Michelle and her boys ALL day long :)  Perfect day :)

OH- Onion Day's 5 and 10 K's are on Labor day.  We are having our 2nd Annual Big Bad For You Breakfast at our house after the race.  Please come.  You can register for the race on runnercard.com :)  We had a GREAT time last year and this year should even be MORE perfect!!!  Kelli is bringing WHIPPING CREAM!!!! :)   Please PM me for my address and directions :)

There was a bit of "noticeability" at the end of the run with my ITB, but no pain.  Here's hoping for a GREAT rest of the week :)

OH- Onion Day's 5 and 10 K's are on Labor day.  We are having our 2nd Annual Big Bad For You POTLUCK Breakfast at our house after the race.  Please come.  You can register for the race on runnercard.com :)  We had a GREAT time last year and this year should even be MORE perfect!!!  Kelli is bringing WHIPPING CREAM!!!! :)   Please PM me for my address and directions :)

35:01/11:40

Nice miles today :)  The last .4 I stepped it up and the knee said, "Hey, what do you think you are doing???"  I think I will keep it nice and easy for the next while.  I'd like to race the 5k at Onion Days, so if I play nice, I bet my knee will let me do it :)

On a more disgusting note, David just pulled a 12" hair clog out of the bathroom sink :p  My 5 year old came to tell me and said, "Dad almost barthed!!!"  He can't say barf, it's barthed.  Of course, David saved it to show me :p 

Oh, and tomorrow ALL of my children will be in school from 9:00-11:30.  Four different schools.  David even has the day off  :D  Hmmmmmm, what ever shall we do????  (Burt- keep it too yourself!!!)

Knee was bugging toward the end :(  I am off to the showers :)  EVERYONE is gone .....  weird.

Lead legs today but I got to run with Kim :)  YEah!!! Two days in a row :) The ITB was great today :) 

Today is the last day for cheep registration for Onion Days :)  It is at runnercard.com :)

34:13/11:24

I am really suffering from the lack of swimming.  I can feel a real difference in my aerobic fitness.  Springville has early morning lap swim and is less money than the Comfort Inn here in Payson.  The drive may not be worth it though.  The Comfort Inn is also only 50 feet long.  Springville is a real (crappy) lap pool.  Hmmmmm....

A VERY tiny bit of soreness in my ITB today.  Nothing really.

The three miles a day worked well this last week.  There seems to be a fine line between stretching enough and too much.  Also the road camber and ANY hills really bother my ITB.  It will be 4 miles a day this week on the 5k route for Onion Days :)

I am still lamenting about the pool being closed.  My heart is heavy and sad :(

I have cleared up a few things to make my life less stressful.  It is very frustrating to me, that like our homes, we must de-clutter our lives as well.  How do all of these "good" things sneak in and take over?  Why is it that some things that are truly important need to be cut out?  Why is it that the VERY MOST important things seem to get squeezed out, without us even noticing???

Oh- the Pig Wrestling is set and we are ready to RULE the world!  For those of you  who'd love to come a view this GREAT event, Michelle, McKenzie, Kellie & I will be wrestling a pig in MUD, into a barrel on Saturday night at the Salem Arena for Onion Days :)  Oh baby, is this going to be AMAZING and a show stopper :D

11:45 ave

At about 4 miles my knee wanted no more :( I walked the last bit home.  One vpb :p  I am off to roll and get to work :)

I got to go swim this afternoon!!!  I got in an 800 :)  YEAH!!!!