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April 28, 2005
Track meets and little else to report
I am still feeling sick, although my throat is a bit less sore than at the beginning on the week. My hip is feeling slightly better, but that probably has more to do with how little I am running right now than much else. Tuesday, I did some running at my girls track meet. I was really proud of how they ran. We were racing against our two main rival schools in a double dual meet (all 3 schools race at the same time, but the it is scored as 3 seperate meets: us versus each of the other schools and the two other schools versus each other) and since we are so weak in just about every non-distance event, we spread my 7 girls between the 400, 800, 1600, 3200, 4x400 and 4x800. They ran so hard in so many events, and in the end we lost to one of the schools by just 6 points (we beat the other), which I could name about 10 ways we could have gotten if our sprinters had bothered to show up or compete in all the events they were entered in. It made me so mad for the distance girls sake. Yesterday, I ran an easy 4 miles with them. We are going to take it easy at practice again today, since they are pretty worn out and have to race again tomorrow. I am frustrated with not being able to train right now. Between being sick, my hip and the fact it keeps being freezing cold (despite being practually May) which makes my hip feel tighter, I have had a pretty lame last 2 weeks of training. I know it's not that long, but I was really excited to get down to some serious training. I feel like I have had so many things interupting my training since January, I am really having a tough time being patient. I feel like I have already put my time in and things should be working for me to run hard by now.
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April 25, 2005
Strep Throat
Well, I finally went to the doctor today, because I have not been able to shake this sickness I caught from my husband over a week ago and it got worse again this weekend. It turns out I have strep throat, so at least now I have some medicine and I understand why I have been so wiped recently. On a postive note, the sun was out and it was 50 degrees again today, and with the warmer weather and very light running weekend, my hip is feeling as good as it has in a couple weeks. I only ran 3 miles, but my hip barely hurt. This time I am going to be smart and slowly build my mileage back up, without any big jumps. I did my stretches tonight and plan to do 4 miles tomorrow morning and probably a little running at my track girls meet tomorrow evening.
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April 24, 2005
Snow Storm!
Sorry, I have not posted in so long. My computer was not working right this weekend, so I just posted the entry I wrote on Thursday right now. There is not too much to catch you up on in the running front.
Friday: I was going to only run a little, since I had made my hip sore the day before doing 8 miles, so I did not run in the morning. I did have another appointment with the sports massage place that helped my hip last week. The woman said she could tell my hip had loosened up, since she was able to get a lot deeper (which hurt quite a bit) into my muscles than last time, although my right side is still way tighter than my left. When I got to practice it was about 45, rainy and windy. Just as we were starting pratice we got word that they had canceled my girls meet for Saturday due to the prediction of 6-10 inches of snow! So I make my poor girls who were planning on an easy day to 1000 meter repeats in the rain, which they did a great job of once they got refocused. I ended up just doing 3 miles of easy running with them for their warm up/cool down, and calling it good since my hip was still a bit sore from Thursday. I lifted weights with my husband, went out to dinner with him at this great Middle Eastern place and stretched while watching a movie.
Saturday: It snowed all day! I tried running, but the cold made my hip tighten up, so I turned around pretty quickly. This was a pretty lazy day. I did stretch some more, but that was it.
Today: We had youth program this morning and I had to scrape my car out of the snow to leave! When I got back, my husband I spent the first part of the afternoon painting the primer coats on our dining room. He is picking up the colored paint and ceiling/trim paint right now. So hopefully, we can at least get the base coats on everywhere today and than we can finish next weekend. Since the weather is just as cold and snowy and there is more snow on the ground today than yesterday, I am probably not going to try to run outside. My plan right now is to go to the YMCA this evening and lift and see how my hip feels on the elliptical.
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April 21, 2005
Last warm day
It is suppose to snow this weekend! At least today was beautiful. My track girls and I ran 8 miles on a route we run in cross country season a lot, and we all agreed it was such a fun running day, because everything reminded us of the fall. Because I was enjoying myself so much, I could not convince myself to turn around 3 miles out, like I was planning. So, instead of running 6 miles, I did 8, and just to show me I should stick with my recovery plan, my hip started hurting at 6.5 miles and hurt quite a bit all the way back. I came home and iced before going to the Thursday youth program I run, even though it made me get there quite a bit later than I like to. Tonight we had an event we call "See You At The Oscars" where the kids (6th-8th grade) make short movies, which we show and than present fake Oscar trophies to Best Movie, Actor, Actress, etc. It was a fun evening, and a few of the movies were actually quite amusing, which is more than I can say for last year. I am going to run easy tomorrow and hopefully I won't have set my recovery back much by my longer run today.
Posted by Ann at 11:25 PM | Comments (0)
April 20, 2005
4.5 miles!
I ran 4.5 miles at track practice with the girls. We ran pretty slow, since they had their meet yesterday, but I was pleased that my hip did not start hurting any worse during the run. This is the first time in a week I have made it more than 3 miles without making my hip get quite a bit worse. After practice, my husband and I lifted, although I did not do very much, becausing a lot of the exercises I normally do pulled on my hip (its amazing how many things you do use your abs, which I can feel where they attach on the inside of my right hip). I came home stretched and iced. I am feeling rather down about things in general right now. I know a lot of it is that I am so much happier when I am running normally. However, there are a lot of major changes and choices that I am either in the middle of or about to come my way. So I think a lot of how I am feeling has to do with being uncertian of so many things right now. I am the kind of person who likes to know exactly where I am headed and have a nice step by step plan of how am going to get there written out. So I have a tough time when I am not sure where I am going and end up feeling like nothing matters, since I don't know what direction to focus on. Well, its off to get some sleep, which will hopefully put me in a better mood tomorrow. The good thing for today is, my hip is making progress.
Posted by Ann at 10:25 PM | Comments (0)
Quick hip update
Last night was the first time since my hip started hurting that I could roll over in bed (something about that motion really hurt) without pain! I am so excited to be able to see improvement. I stretched this morning before work and am going to try 4 or 5 miles this afternoon at the girls track practice. Wish me luck. I really don't want to make it start hurting worse again.
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April 19, 2005
Another long track meet
I did not get home from my girls track meet and until after 11pm. I am hoping that once we get further into the season, these track meets will run a little smoother. I actually did stick with my plan and not run at practice yesterday. Although I have to admit that I wore sandals to practice, so I could not change my mind, which my girls found to be really funny. I really miss getting the time with them running, plus its hard to watch others be able to run when you can't. After practice was over, I went to the YMCA and lifted with my husband. This morning I just did 3 miles again, since I knew I would be on my feel all evening at the track meet. My hip felt a little better than yesterday. I was able to run at 7:40 pace rather than 8 minute pace without it hurting. I can feel that the tendon and muscles are looser. I stretched/strengthen/iced and went into work. Tuesday is my day full of meetings, although my last one was canceled, which was nice. The weather was hot, a high of 81! So I guess in some ways it was nice that the track meet got off to such a late start, since it cooled down to a nice temperature in the evening. My distance girls ran great. We are pretty weak in our field events and shorter distances, so we spread the distance girls through the middle and long distance events and made them all run a lot. They did such a great job, taking all the places in almost everything they ran. And it was really fun to watch my distance runners go so fast in the middle distance stuff.
Posted by Ann at 11:39 PM | Comments (1)
April 18, 2005
Feeling better
I stretched for about 40 minutes and did my exercises yesterday. Today, I was nervous to run again, since I was afraid my hip would start hurting badly as I ran, and make yesterday's day off seem pointless. I decided to do 3 easy again this morning. My hip felt okay to start, but about half mile in it started hurting worse. I was feeling pretty worried, but after another mile it started to loosen up and felt slightly better than when I started by the time I finished. I stretched/strengthened/iced when I was done. I am going to write this here, to try and help me stick with this. I am not going to run at practice today with the track girls. I really want to be smart about my recovery, so maybe I can even race this weekend (race 2 in the series I was hoping to do). I was pleased this morning to see that both of the faster women in our area were not at yesterday's race either, which really surprised me. So we are all starting out behind in points, which is good since I have to miss another race for my brother's wedding this summer. I am feeling better with my sickness today, as well. My fever is gone, although I still have a sore throat and headache. I slept so soundly last night, which I think really helped.
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April 17, 2005
Glad I am sick!
Last night I woke up at 3am with a really sore throat and a fever, and the first thought that runs through my head is, "good, now I can be glad I don't have to race tomorrow". Sad, I know. I have to admit the happiness about being sick is wearing off already, since I had to go into work both for our youth program and a parents meeting for a trip I am leading this summer to Toronto. However, it does make me feel better about my decision yesterday to not race. Not much else to report about today. Yesterday evening I did some shopping for my soon to be sister-in-law's bridal shower and watched Millions with my husband. My hip is feeling better after a 3 mile running day. I am going to take today off from running. Since I am not racing to recover quickly and I have not had a non-running day in 2 weeks, I am just going to take the day off. I am going to go and lift weights, but other than that I plan to sleep and try and get over this sickness and let my hip recover.
Posted by Ann at 1:22 PM | Comments (0)
April 16, 2005
Not racing tomorrow
My sports massage went really well yesterday morning. The woman I talked to thinks I have hurt the tendon that attaches my ab muscles to the inside of my hip. This makes so much sense to me for two reasons. First, when she showed me where the tendon runs, those are exactly the areas that it hurts. Second, the exercise that hurts the most to do is an ab exercise, despite the fact that the pain I get is in my hip. Also, she found scar tissue in my hip from (I assume) when I hurt it this winter. So she spent a lot of time working on loosening up everything in that hip and breaking up the scar tissue. She showed me some stretches and told me to be careful to keep my right leg straight when I run, because the hip tightness is pulling my leg outward (which is what I think the guy on Wednesday night was noticing, but I think its an effect of the injury not the cause of it). I felt a lot better walking around after that. So at practice I thought I would run the whole run (6.5 miles) with the girls. I should have been more conservative, but its so hard not to want to hurry recovery when you are starting to feel good again. My hip felt great during the first 3 miles or so, but on the way back it got pretty sore. I stretched and iced when I got home, but it still felt quite a bit worse than before I ran. This morning I did an easy 3 miles, hoping that I would feel great. I felt a little better than I did on Thursday (before my sports massage), but quite a bit worse than I did yesterday in the beginning on my run. I came back and did my stretch/strengthen/ice thing, and debated for over an hour whether or not I should race tomorrow. Now, I realize the obvious answer was no, and its sad that it took me so long to decide not to race (and that I keep second guessing my choice), but at least I did finally come to that decision. I really don't want to drag this injury out, and since I can't even get through an easy run without pain, there is no reasonable way to pretend that I will be able to race tomorrow without hurting it quite a bit (this is logic I can easily see for others, but must say thanks to my husband for making me see for myself). Despite knowing this is a good choice, I am having a really hard time being okay with it. I am at work right now getting some things done for a meeting tomorrow that I did not get around to this week. When I walked in, one of the guys I work with came up to me and started telling me how he had heard I am this great runner etc. Now, while this should be encouraging, today it just make me feel awful about not racing tomorrow and not really training worth mentioning this week. I know it's stupid, since a few weeks being injured won't change much about my abilities, but it make me feel like a fake. Sorry to be so negative over something that is not that big of a deal. This is my first time having an injury that I have not just been able to run through for well over a year (and before that the 3 injuries I had were all serious and long-term, so it makes me get scared when I can't keep training) and this race is part of a series I had been wanting to do.
Posted by Ann at 12:17 PM | Comments (2)
April 15, 2005
Freezing cold track meet
I really should not complain, since last track season almost every one of the girls' track meets were on rainy and 40 degree days...but I was so cold last night at the meet! It was sunny and 50s when we arrived, but the temperature dropped so fast and the wind was blowing so hard, that it got cold quick, and since we were there until 10pm (poorly run invitational) we had plenty of time to freeze. At least I got to "ice" my hip flexor. I ended up running 4 more miles with the girls at the meet, which along with all the standing and walking made for a kind of rough night on my hip flexors, but they are hanging in there. The distance girls did really well, although with the wind there were not any particularly great times to brag about. But every distance girl in each of her events got a medal, which made me really proud of how hard they have all been working. Also, one of my best girls who has been injured, tried a little speed for the first time before the meet and was able to run with no pain! So hopefully we can have her back to normal in the next week or to. Well, enough of other people running. I wish I had more to report on my own training at the moment. The closest I can come is that this morning I took a hot bath to warm up my muscles and did a good stretch and my hamstring/glute exercises. In a few minutes I am going to get a sports massage, so hopefully I can be feeling better by practice today. I would like to be able to do 7 miles with the girls.
Posted by Ann at 8:13 AM | Comments (0)
April 14, 2005
Short and easy run
My hip flexor was slighltly less sore this morning than last night, but still bothered me quite a bit on the easy 3 mile run I did this morning. When I got back I stretched really well and did my strenthening exercises for my hamstrings and glutes and than iced my hip flexor. You have to love it when it takes longer to wrap up your run than to actually do it. Oh well, at least it does not feel much worse after running. I think that I am going to call the sports massage place in town and see if I can get in for an appointment. I have had several people suggest that might help and I know I am tight right now. I just get nervous that something I will do will make things worse, and make me have to stop running completely. But I know that its silly to let those fears keep me from doing things that will most likely get me better faster. The track team I coach has a meet this afternoon, so I will probably run a few more miles easy with them and make sure to stretch out well again.
Posted by Ann at 9:28 AM | Comments (2)
April 13, 2005
Sore Hip Flexor
This has not been turning out to be the good training week that I was hoping for. First I had these past couple of days when I have been feeling sick, and now starting last night and all today I am getting quite a bit of pain in my right hip flexer. It bothered me a little during the winter when I was doing a lot of fast treadmill running, but never got bad as long as I limited how much I ran fast on the treadmill and avoided a certain ab exercise. Now, its gotten more sore than it was this winter. It hurts a little when I walk, I even feel it when I am just sitting still, and lifting my right leg high kills. So, today I ran an easy 5 miles with my girls and ended up deciding it was not wise to keep going after. Instead I went to our local running store that has an injury clinic on Wednesday nights. The guy that looked at me did not impress me very much. He did not ask many questions about my running or what made it hurt and made some assumptions about how I run without bothering to watch me. He thinks that it is the muscle that cause my leg to rotate inward that is what I have hurt, but rotating my leg in before lifting it makes it not hurt and lifting it straight up does. Either way, I think he is right that I need to work on my hamstring and glute strength, and that my quads are doing too much of the work when I run. I have a hard time getting myself to do too much lower body lifting, because a lot of things bother my knee since my surgery and I am always afraid of making it sore. So I am not surprised to need to work on this. So I think I will take away his advice on stregthening and stretching, even though I don't really agree with what he thinks is wrong. He also wants me to stop running for 7-10 days. Maybe its just my obsessive runners nature, but I really don't think that would help me. Not running just seems to make me tighten up and make injuries never get better. Plus, I just took 6 down weeks between when this was bothering me this winter and now, and its obviously still a problem. So, I am going to try a couple of easy days, lots of stretching and lifting, and ice. Hopefully that will get me feeling better by this weekend for my race/workout. I have to say, this week is not leaving me feeling too good about my performance this weekend, if I end up being able to do it at all. I am going to do my stretches one more time and then put some ice on my hip.
Posted by Ann at 8:08 PM | Comments (18)
April 12, 2005
Still fighting those germs
I could certainly tell that I am not feeling the best when I got to practice today. I was dragging just doing the 2 lap warm up with the girls. I am really hoping that another good nice sleep will make me feel better, since I wanted to sit down and take a nap the whole time I was running today. Instead, I ran 8 miles at 7:30 pace with my fastest track girl. I came home and ate dinner, and am pretty much refusing to move from the couch for the rest of the evening. Seeing how I am feeling right now, I really can't think of much else interesting to say about my day, so I am just calling this good.
Posted by Ann at 7:29 PM | Comments (0)
Fighting Germs
Its been a while since I updated. As you can tell from the title, I am trying not to get sick (my husband has been sick since before I got home from Flordia) and I am not sure if I am winning. Sunday, I left off saying I was going see if I could get my husband to go walking with me. He actually came up and suggested going to the park I had run at earlier and walking on the trails, just as I was posting that entry. So we ended up having a great walk for over an hour through the woods, and since it was later in the day, there were a lot less people than when I ran earlier, which was nice. Yesterday I woke up with a horrible headache and my throat a bit sore, so I went back to sleep. I did not wake up until 9:45! That is really late for me, anything past 8 is late for me. I still did not feel great, but I made myself do a little yoga (yeah me, actually focusing on stretching for once) and got myself into work. At track practice we had a mile repeat workout scheduled for the girls. I warmed up with them and than ran the first one with my fastest girl (5:56), the second with our next girl (6:23) and the third with the next girl (6:40). I am frustrated that running 6 minute pace is still feeling harder than it should, but amazed at how much difference it makes to drop back to 6:23 pace. I was chatting with the girl I was pacing and did not feel it at all. When I got done, I was feeling lazy, since I slowed down for the 2nd and 3rd intervals to pace different people, so I ran a 4th mile at 5:57 (although there was a cart on one of the corners, making me run all the way out to lane 8 each time around, so my time was probably a little faster). Than cooled down with the girls, so I got 8 miles in. At least I did some faster paced running, even if its not where I wish I was. Last fall I ran this same workout by myself at 5:45, 5:45, 5:41 and right now I think that the 5:56 pace I did for the first and last would be the fastest I could go. I have a couple of 5ks scheduled for the next few weekends. I am planning on training through them and running them as speed workouts, since I have a ways to go before I am in good racing shape again. Hopefully I can stay healthy so I can at least get a feel for where I am at in my training. This morning I slept in again, but am planning on doing a long run with the girls at practice this afternoon.
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April 10, 2005
Sunny and warm in Michigan
The weather has been so nice here the past couple of days, it does not even feel like I left Flordia. I am trying to enjoy this unseasonably nice weather, since last year I know most of April was about 40 and raining. In that spirit, I decided not to go to the gym and lift last night. Instead I did a quick core workout at home and than went for a walk with my husband instead. This morning we had youth program and than a meeting that I had to plan and prepare for. So I did not run until the afternoon. I found out this morning that my friend I tried to run with yesterday is with her family in New York this weekend, so since I did not feel like doing another run by myself, I called my dad. I caught him just before he left for his run and we met at the nearby lake to run around it. He has a tradition that goes back at least 10 years (I know he was doing this when I still lived at home in high school), where he runs around Lake Lansing without stopping and following a certain route (even touching a certain fence) at least once every month. Since they had been gone for spring break, he had not gone for his April trip yet. When we got done, I added the shorter of the trail loops that are in the park we leave our cars at, giving me about 7.5 miles. I am looking forward to the girls being back from spring break tomorrow. As much as I enjoy the freedom of not having practice everyday, I miss running with them after only a few days off. Now, I am going to do some yoga, since I have been horrible these past few weeks about working on my flexibility, and than see if I can talk my husband into another walk before its starts to get dark.
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April 9, 2005
The trails are all clear!
Last night I ran over to my parents house to meet my husband, who drove a car full of branches there, from a tree we cut down last fall. My parents have woods behind their lot, so we can dump wood and leaves there for free. I ran the hilly backroad way, which was 4 miles, in 28 minutes. I was going to run back, too, but it just sounded so nice to spend some time with my husband, since I have been gone so much. So I just called it good enough and came back with him in the car. This morning I did my same 10 mile loop around a lake and though trails that I did last week with my track girls. My friend never called back, so I am assuming she is gone for spring break still. So I had to run by myself, which I was not excited about, although I ended up having a really nice run. Its about 50 and very sunny and the trails were dried up and clear for the first time this year. It was nice to be able to run my own pace (73 minutes vs 83 with the girls), which helped to make up for missing having someone to talk to. My plans for the rest of the day are to relax around the house with my husband, lift weights and do some work on our dining room project. Since I am hosting a shower for my brother's finace in 4 weeks, I need to finish striping wallpaper and paint, rather than leave it ripped up forever like I normally would, since home decorating really is not my idea of fun.
Posted by Ann at 12:20 PM | Comments (0)
April 8, 2005
Home Sweet Home
It is good to be home. I had a fun time traveling, but the work trip and visiting my friend back to back makes me appreciate being home, seeing my husband and getting back in a normal routine. I believe I left off updating on Wednesday morning after my run. My friend and I spent the rest of the day running errands for her job and doing some shopping for new clothes for her and the baby. Than we had dinner with her husband, who kindly took the baby for the rest of the evening. We went to a nearby bookstore and talked (we're exciting I know). Thursday morning I ran an easy 5 1/2 miles (43 min), since we had to get packed up and to the airport, and its amazing how long it takes to do anything with a baby. I spent most of the day flying home, since I was not able to get a direct flight. My husband picked me up from the airport and once we got home we had time for a walk and to watch the Survivor episode that he taped. I am ashamed to admit that I watch Survivor, but for some reason I always end up hooked. My excuse is that its nice to have something to unwind and watch when I get back from out Thursday night youth program, but I have to admit its just an excuse. This morning I slept in. I knew I was tired, but I did not realize how wiped I was. I had to force myself out of bed, even though I got 10 hours of sleep! I just did a quick 4 miles (28:25) on one of my favorite short routes (it gets me briefly on trails and its a loop, and I hate out and back routes), since I needed to get to work and I plan on running longer this evening. The weather is beautiful today, almost as nice as Flordia was. Maybe spring is really here... I am going to call my friend who I run with once in a while (she homeschools her kids and lives half an hour away, so its hard to find times we can run together) and see if we can do a long run some time this weekend. I would like to have a good running weekend, since I have not been too focused on my running this past week with all the traveling.
Posted by Ann at 1:39 PM | Comments (1)
April 6, 2005
Always sunny and 80
Right now I am loving being in Flordia. Although I am sure I would get tired of the heat if I lived here, it is such a nice break from Michigan this time of year. My friend and I are having a really good time. I miss her (she moved from Michigan about 3 years ago). Yesterday I did 6 miles in the morning followed by some crunches and push ups. Than my friend and spent the day together, mostly just talking, although we did spend several hours at the beach, where I discovered just how hard it is to keep a baby from getting sandy. This morning I ran 8 miles with 2 times a half mile hard. Nothing special in this workout, just feeling like I have been running easy for too many days in a row with all my traveling and no track practice, but feeling too lazy to do a real workout. I never feel that great when visiting this friend, since we eat out for all our meals, and stay up way later than I am use to. And since I can not sleep in like her, I end up always being tired. At least it gives me my mornings to run guilt free. I am going to go try to call my husband. When I talked to him last night he was sick and had a fever of 102.4, so I am feeling rather bad for leaving him home alone. At least I come home tomorrow, so if he stays sick for long, I will be home soon.
Posted by Ann at 10:39 AM | Comments (0)
April 4, 2005
Flordia
After the big snow/ice storm on Saturday, it is certianly weird to be sitting here is shorts and a tee-shirt in Flordia. I need to make this quick, because my friend who I am visiting should be back any minute. Yesterday, I took the day off running and just lifted and did the elliptical, before hurrying home (really hurrying once I remembered that we had lost an hour due to Daylight Savings) and getting packed up to catch my flight down here. I got in late last night and my friends baby is such a cute little guy. It seems everytime I see someone's baby recently I am amazed at how ugly a baby can be (I know that sounds mean, but its true), but little Owen is adorable and always laughing. This morning I went for a 5.5 mile run. I think I will get a chance to run again this evening, but I am not quite sure of my friends schedule.
Posted by Ann at 11:54 AM | Comments (0)
April 2, 2005
A wintery mix
I did not run a second time yesterday, since the guy who was driving us to Toronto took the wrong road and than refused to stop and ask for directions until we had drove past where we were suppose to go. So we ended up not getting to our hotel until 7:30 and it was already dark. I ended up just going out to dinner and talking with one of them until late last night. At first this morning I was pleased to look out the window and see that there was no snow on the ground, since the weather prediction called for a wintery mix. However, once I got outside I realized that the weather was nasty. The wind was blowing so hard, and the rain was in the process of turning to snow, so it was at the great small ice pellet stage for most of my run. I managed to force myself through 6 miles, by switching directions often to keep the ice from hitting my face for too long at one time. My warm shower felt so good. The worst thing was the people we were suppose to meet were really late, so we ended up getting soaked in the process of meeting them, so I pretty much was freezing all day. The whole drive through Cananda was quite exciting, too. The wind was blowing so hard that everytime we would go through as open area you had to steer so far to the right to stay on the road it was scary, espesially since the snow was starting to stick to the roads. At least once we got back into Michigan the weather cleared up. Lets just say I am really glad to be home, espesially since I leave again tomorrow afternoon. At least tomorrow I am going to Flordia where it does not snow in April, and will be visiting a close friend rather than working. After this morning I am really looking forward to running in Flordia. I am hoping for some good chances to train. My friend, J, is usually very understanding of how important running is to me.
Posted by Ann at 10:50 PM | Comments (1)
April 1, 2005
Traveling
I was so tired all day yesterday. The night before my husband and I stayed up way too late talking about some big decisions I am going to have coming up soon at work. Even after we were done talking I had trouble falling asleep because I was still thinking over things. Since I was so tired and I did not get to sleep very early last night because of our Thursday night youth program, I did not get up as early as I should have today. So I just ran a quick 3 miles and did some yoga (since I have been ignoring all my cross training with the nice weather we had earlier this week). Now I am packing up to meet with my 2 co-workers who I am going to Toronto with for some pre-trip meetings and planning we need to do for a trip we are taking junior high students on in July. Hopefully I can get another workout in tonight. If not, I am planning a nice run in the morning exploring the city.
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