making a comeback!

I knew that today I would have to run in the evening, since I worked last night and I couldn't find the strengh to go this morning after work. Can't say that it was one of my best runs just felt kinda hard. The first mile was good, the second uphill ( according to my standards, with a head wind) the third more flat and down hill felt pretty good, the last mile felt a little like running in sand, like I couldn't really get going anywhere. Now that I'm home I feel great. I hate that it always happens that way, hard run and then get home and think, "what was the problem should have gone two more!" Oh well there's always tomorrow!

Just a short run this morning so I can hopefully be really energetic tomorrow for the 5K.

Well I got up and did the 5K this morning, it went kinda like this... I got down to the park around 6:55 to register and then visited with a few people thinking that it started at 8:00 a.m. which it really started at 7:30... so at 20 mins after made a quick run around the block in time to line up.  Started out the race with a friend from work who I know runs faster than me. Thinking that if I started with her I could stay with her, since in the 5K on Saturday she was just a little faster than me... but that didn't last too long and she pulled away when we got to the aprox. mile long hill.  It wasn't terribly steep, just steedy climb, Yuck!  Then about .5 mile of slight down and then back up, with about 1 mile steedy drop to the finish.  Then once again didn't hear my time when I finished and they weren't posting them just then, so I decided to hurry home to shower and get ready to come back for the parade.  I thought I would see my time then.  Well when I got back to the park an hour later no times posted anywhere!  My Ipod showed a time of  00:26:40, but it was off on the distance so I'm not sure if I can go with the time, but since it's all I've got that's what I'm sticking with for now.  Maybe tomorrow I can calll down to the city and see if they have the times.  As for the run, it was o.k. I don't know what is up with these courses, why they can't find courses that are more flat?  Maybe that's the purpose to challenge us and find out what we're really made of!  Maybe I need to run hills more frequently?  This run seemed harder than the 5K I ran on Sat. even though the hills were much steeper, this on seemed to go on longer.  But overall pretty good.   Happy fourth to all!  (Currently I am in the E.R. seeing all the crazy things people do to celebrate and find entertainment on this fun day!)

I decided to run this morning after work, because I knew I would have a hard time getting out tonight. So as I was headed to the track to re-calibrate my Ipod and looked into the glare of the sun it seemed all too familiar. Then I realized I was headed for the 5K 24hrs earlier looking into the same morning glare. Thats when I realized maybe running again before going to bed was ummm....crazy! Legs felt a little stiff for the first mile and then seemed to loosen up. Not really much distance today, maybe if not too dead tonight I'll sneek in another mile or two. Good night all!

Ran today in Lyman. Was able to sleep in a little bit, and it was still fairly cool outside. I also got to do a new route which is a little refreshing! The run felt really good and was longer than I've done in over a week due to the 5K's, I need to work on building up my mileage again. Might prove difficult since we will be out of town off/on the next two-three weeks. Could take some disipline!

Ran in Lyman again today! Another new route! Fun to just run dowm those long counrty roads ( as long as you can get in 4.5 miles. seems long in my little world) Hip was up to it's old tricks again, iced it a little when I got home. Helped some. At least I didn't feel it too much till I got home.