January 28, 2007
A lucky meeting
Friday I did get in a 4 mile run, not much, but pretty good considering my limited time to run and how awful I was feeling. Saturday I had set up to meet one of my girls I coach for a long run, which I have to say I really dragged through. I did make the 10 miles, but I could not get enough air through all my congestion. I am glad I had the company, because it would have been very hard to force myself through on my own. Today I ended up doing the elliptical again, due to very cold and snowy weather, my cold still going strong and being able to watch the Austrlian Open men's tennis finals while working out. Another good thing about dragging myself through that 10 miler yesterday was that I bumped into an old running buddy of mine on the trail we were running on and we were able to set up a run next week. It turns out that she comes to my side of town on Monday afternoons and her junior high age daughter will be with her and willing to babysit while we run. I am hoping this works out and we can make it a regular thing until track season starts in March. Got to love when a running partner comes with a babysitter.
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January 26, 2007
Sick again!
Tuesday Ryan came down with a cold, which I assume he got on the airplane coming back from Flordia. I ran 5.5 miles and lifted weights. Wednesday I did 35 minutes on the elliptical in the morning and attepted to run in the afternoon, but I only made it about 20 minutes since I was running through really deep snow in a blizzard and was starting to not feel good myself. That night I got hit pretty hard with Ryan's cold, so yesterday I tried to get what exercise I could inbetween taking care of a sick baby and trying to function myself. I did some ab exercises and stood on my balance board in the morning and forced myself through 40 minutes on the ellitpical during Ryan's one nap I could get him to lay down for in the afternoon. So far today I have not gotten anything done, but I am going to attept to run at lunch, since my husband is coming home, as long as the weather is not too horrible. Otherwise, I will attempt another nap time elliptical session.
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January 23, 2007
Escaping the arrival of winter
It's been a while since I wrote, because my husband, Ryan and I all were in Flordia last week visiting a friend of mine. It was a lot of fun. I loved introducing Ryan to the ocean and swimming, which he loved. He smiled and kicked away in the water and never seemed scared or bored of swimming, which I thought was quite impressive (not to mention cute) for a 6 month old. It was a rather tiring week though, since we had the little guy in our room to sleep at night and the house was quite loud with the three of us, my friend, her husband, her 2.5 month old boy and 3 dogs! I did manage to do a decent amount of running, although I missed 2 days because I got an eye infection and could not see without my contacts (we finally got a pair of glasses which I am still wearing). I ended up running 35 miles for the week, which did include a great 10 mile long run (where I invented a loop and actually found my way home) and quite a few strides, even if it was less than I had hoped. The weather I returned to was not quite so running friendly. It had snowed a lot while we were gone and we drove home Sunday in freezing rain, so now everything is really icey. Yesterday I did 35 minutes on the elliptical in the morning and tried to run to the gym to lift with my husband when he got home from work. I did make it there, but I am not sure that you could call what I was doing running, since it was super icey, getting dark and my glasses kept bouncing and fogging up. Today I have a run scheduled (and a babysitter) during the afternoon, so hopefully I will do better with daylight.
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