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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January 7, 2007
Another 40+ mile week
Friday, when my husband got home from work, I complained that I was going to have to put a lot of miles in over the weekend, since I was behind in my mileage. He offered to push Ryan in the jogging stroller, so we could get a quick 3 miles in before it got completely dark, so we changed quickly and did that. Yesterday morning I met my girls for our long run. Only 1 girl showed up, I am assuming because it was cold, raining and still part of their Christmas break. I am glad the 1 girl showed up, since I was not feeling very motivated to run by myself in the rain without music for 10 miles. I was nervous about how I would feel for the first 2/3 of the run, but I ended up doing fine, although being glad not to run any faster than we did. The trail we were running on was flooded out at several points, which made for some amusing climbing and finding side routes along the way. I still feel like I should be able to run 10 miles and not even feel it, but at least I can run that far consistantly again. I ended up spending 2 hours walking with Ryan strapped to me later in the day, between wanting to go hiking (after the rain cleared up) and Ryan being fussy in the evening. I am glad I only need to get about 5 miles in today, because not only are my legs sore from yesterday, but I am exhausted because Ryan was up 3 times in the night and did not want to go back to sleep. I am heading out the door to run as soon as he wakes up and I feed him. That will give me 41 miles for the week and a 10 mile long run. Next week I am going to start adding in strides after some of my runs to start getting use to speed again. I would like to hit the track once or twice before my next race in early February, just to have some idea what pace to run the race at.
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January 5, 2007
Back to normal schedule
I miss having my husband around so that I could just get up and run in the morning. I am doing pretty good at getting runs in, but it takes a lot more planning and I am a mile or 2 behind what I wanted to be at today...I guess I will just have to run more this weekend. Monday I ran 6 miles and Tuesday 6.5 to the Y and lifted with my husband. Wednesday he returned to work, so I did the elliptical trainer at the Y in the morning and managed to run 5.5 miles in the afternoon when my mom babysat and I ran with my dad. Yesterday I ended up taking my day off. I had planned to run with Ryan in his jogging stroller to the nearby track during his nap time. I figured I could push him the mile there and back and leave him camped out in the stroller sleeping while I ran around the track since it was suppose to be almost 50 and sunny. This plan did not work so well, since while I was waiting for it to be time for his morning nap it started raining and kept raining all day. I did walk for a little over an hour with him in the morning before the rain while I waiting for it to be nap time and lifted weights in the evening. Today I called my parents and talked them into coming over so I could run with my dad, since my husband was to work during lunch and its rainy again. We got 5.5 miles in again, which is as much as I can talk my dad into doing. Tomorrow I have my first long run with the girls I coach at 9am. Hopefully I am in good enough shape now to not have trouble making 10 at their pace. I don't know if i mentioned it, but I timed my 5 mile run last Sunday and I did the route in 38:30, so I am running about 7:45s if that run was the same as the rest of my runs. I was just pleased to not find out that I was running something over 8 minute miles like I feared.
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