making a comeback!

Got up and went down to the treadmill at the hotel. After 1 mile I was done. getting to bed really late here and needed to be ready to go sightseeing with some other people and feeling rushed so I cut things a little short. Also I knew that I would definately do a lot of walking later!

No running today, travel day again. It was crazy, in Seattle we never saw a cloud and there was little or no humidity that I could feel. We stepped of the plane in SLC and it felt like getting off a plane in St. Louis or something I couldn't believe the humidity change and how backwards it all was! But we had a great time up there. Our hotel was out at the airport and a taxi ride to town was about $60 dollars round trip so we rode the bus. Quite an interesting experience ( I do live a sheltered life ) During the day is was just interesting, at nigth we came back late after the ball games around 11:00 p.m. and it felt a little like the night bus on Harry Potter!

Got to bed late last night (has to be the theme for this sumer in my life) so felt like catching up on sleep was more important than running when it was cool. Ran around 9:30. At first it didn't seem to bad. But as things got going I really felt the hunidity. I just felt drained. Part of that I know is from traveling and just being out of my normal(abmormal) routine.

Four miles today. Got out late again, so got warm pretty fast. One thing that I am looking forward to is it cooling down for running. I hate summer to end and would take a hot day over a cold one on any occassion except to run. And when it really cools off and it's freezing outside, and I'm crying about the cold ALL WINTER.....I will deny that I ever said that!

I got out a little earlier than usual and that sure seemed to make a difference! Even though it wasn't a whole lot cooler, I guess every little bit helps. I wasn't as tired and once I seemed to get going it felt pretty good! I might try getting up early and getting a few more long runs in this week. But that will probably be later this week as I have two night shifts tonight and tomorrow.

I went out after I got home from work around 6:30 a.m.  I put on a t-shirt and shorts and when I stepped out of the garage I actually was cold for a second.  I knew it wouldn't take long to warm up but it's crazy how one day it's humid and killer heat and the next day the leaves have fallen off the trees and you have a jacket on... I love summer and can't stand that even though were a ways off it's slightly changing!  My run didn't last very long got tired easy and was past ready to be to bed!  My hip is starting to hurt again, I'm so bummed about it.  I'm still pretty sure it's the bursitis and am not sure why my injection didn't last a little longer.  If anyone has any suggestions about stretching, miracle cures, anything...it would be greatly welcomed!

couldn't make myself go this morning after work so I got out around 8:30 in the evening. Pretty good run but still to soon after dinner.

Well.... I Got up and decided to do a 6 mile total out and back. But I hate out and backs very boring, so when I got to the 3 mile mark I thought about an alternate road just up the road that would take me in a loop, tack on a couple of extra miles which was good because I wanted around 8 rather than 6 miles. Well as things went along I could tell it was going to be a little more than 6, 8, who knew for sure. I was actually feeling pretty good and decided to let go of any thought of times and just run. And things were going along really well. That was untill I decided that I was verrrrryy thirsty and no water in sight. I was out on a lonngg dusty road and about 8 miles into my run. I managed to make it into town and get to a gas station and get some water and was at 9.8 miles and decided I was done. I would just call home and have them come and get me. " Just last night my husband was saying we have four cell phones in this house do we still need a land line?" After trying three of the five various numbers I realized I would be running home. So after about a 4 minute water break I was off. After another .6 miles I decided my hip hurt to much to keep running, and I started to walk. After another 2 blocks of walking I decided that it hurt just as much to walk as it did to run, and I was taking too long to get home and started running again. All in All not too bad of a run and it forced me to do a long run which I haven't had a chance to do lately. But next time I will be better prepared and have some water and I think that it will go better. Hope that my hip will let me walk/run tomorrow or maybe it will be all for not!

Got out late this morning could tell that it was a little warmer today than yesterday. Calves a little sore from the long run yesterday but they loosened up quick. Hip still sore and had a hard time finding any rythym to my run so I called it quits after three. Hopefully tomorrow finish off the week with a good run. Have to go to Provo this afternoon and will probabley get home quite late so will have to see?

got a late start again today. Slept in after our adventures to Provo. (Yes, that is a common theme to my night shift life) We got 2 kids and 1 husbands school shopping done in about 6 hours, that is record time! This morning hip allowed me to run at a natural gate which was good but my body just felt a little zapped of energy. I did have a new high for mileage this week, 31 miles. I hope to maintane or build on this and hope my body will cooperate! Also hoping that tomorrow with a day off will rest and rejuvinate me!

The DREEEAAADmill is a four letter word!!!!! Also a mental tourture chamber! With that said I thought I'd feel better but..... I went a whole 2 miles on the treadmill and feel like I ran a marathon. I'm blaming it on the nightshift again, it is a catch all for all badness in my life! But now I'll be more motivated to run when I get home in the morning regaurdless how tired I am it will have to be easier than that was! Way to get going on the high weekly mileage!

Made it out after work this morning and initially with the help of the slightest down hill slope had my first mile in around 8:55, was feeling good and had a lot of eneregy! The second was about 9:25 and a little up hill, the third, and I started to feel tired was not so great about 10:30. Not to impressive of a run but did get out before going to bed! I told my husband not to let me into bed under any circumstances before I had run because if I woke up and had to face the dreadmill again I think I would have died! So my weeks mileage isn't shaping up to well I will have to be a lot more motivated for the rest of the week!

A pretty slow and difficult run today. It is pretty humid out we have had rain the last two days and that and I think general fatigue seemed to really get me. About two miles in the sun came out from the clouds and it got real warm and even seemed more humid. I managed to bounce along at what seemed like a very slow pace. At around 5.25 miles I decided I had to have a drink and ran into the gas station and drank out of the bathroom sink and then made it home. Not my best run by far, but it's a done run! time 59:59

So now I'm off to clean the bathrooms!! It just gets better and better! Have a great day everyone!

Better run this morning than yesterday. Not quite as humid, so that helped. I wanted to do 6 again today, but I took a new route this morning and when I got to my house it was only five and I called it quits. Hope to get to bed before midnight today or tomorrow so I can get some kinda long run in this week. Hip seems to be doing a little better this week. I have found that heat is helping more than ice. It goes against everything that I've ever thought to be correct, but if it's helping I'm not complaining. Just hope it doesn't backfire and then I get a huge setback!

Got up and had my husband drop me off about half way on his way to work so I could run home and not have to do an out and back or wander around town. As we were driving it seemed so far away at the time that I gave in and had him only kick me out at the 6 mile mark and figured that I would add on 2 more for 8 in town if I had it in me. The first 6 miles were really good. I got me some new songs on my Ipod and just rolled along. Dropped off water on the way out so I didn't get thirsty. It was quite muggy and overcast but at least the sun wasn't beating down on me. I do feel like I am turning into one big mosquito bite though. I saw a few sprinklers to run through but didn't want to wash off any of my repelant (darn!) When I got to town things got a little difficult, I thinkk more mentally than anything. I ended up with only 7.7 but now that I am not as intimidated with the road he kicked me out on, next time I'll have him take me a little farther! Good run all in all.

On a little down note.... today is the last day of summer at our house.... I hate the thought of my kids going back to school on monday! So today we are totally taking it easy. Going to lunch and just soaking the last drops of freedom in. Later they have a big Highschool Musical 2 party planned with the neighborhood kids. Swimming, pizza and the movie. My goal today is to enjoy the day and not think about it coming to an end!

Slept in today and that sure felt good! When I woke up it was dark out and raining, so I didn't get out till around 10:00. It was still overcast and wet but the lightning had stopped. For a five mile run it was pretty hard, had some long tough climbs, ( For me ) but I just took it easy and went with it. I have loved the last couple of days running with these overcast skies. Even though the humidity is high, especially today, it just seemed so relaxed and peaceful out, occasional sprinkle now and then felt good too. Well looks like I made it home just in time, there goes more thunder!!! Now I hope it thunders, lightnings and pours all day long!!! Have a great weekend!!

Well today is the first day of school at our house so everyone gets in a little bit of a dither, from the kids to our dad who is the principal of an area school. Knowing that things might be crazy when I got home from work this morning and I might not get out I decided to take the long way home and run home. That way if I came home and things were a llittle crazy I would already be done. I did however forget to get my ipod so I had to do it without music. something I never do. It wasn't too bad once my breathing regulated and it didn't sound as much like a trane huffing and puffing along! All in all not to bad.

Well got everyone off to school for the big first day!!! I think I'm off to bed for a big nap!!!

Ran home from work again today, but slipped by the track to add on a little more. Felt pretty good but got tired towards the end. Off to get a good nap now!

I blogged this once and must not have hit submit so here goes the condensed version! New route, kinda hilly but good. Feeling exhausted with weeks activites but should be able to sleep tonight so I'm sure that will help a lot! Found lots of sprincklers this morning! (Yea!!!!) I thinkk they were the only thing that got me thru. Felt really slow with fatigue average time 9:57.

Again I think the theme for the last two runs has been hard. Today seemed even harder that the six miles that I did yesterday? I even seemed to do better Mon and Tues. running home from work after a 12 hour night shift, seems a little backward. I guess the bright spot is that I've gotten it in for today and look forward to tomorrow!! I'm sure it will be better. :) :)

Oh... I forgot to mention that Tues. morning while I was running home it was dark out and I came around the corner just as a car was coming down the road. We kinda came together at the same time. Well up the road about 20 feet is a canal bridge. The car was obviously going faster than me, so it got to the bridge before me. Just as it did, a skunk came skooting out across the bridge. I'm really glad for the car because I'm sure we would have met almost face to face. I thought it was funny because of the discussion on skunks just the other day!

Today I lingered a little around the house, made the mistake of turning on the t.v. while I was making my bed after the kids left for school! It only sucked me in for about 10 mins. but I know that I can't do that any more, it made it really hard to get out the door. At one time I told myself that I could have the day off! My hip was hurting when I got up and that was part of the problem. I did put some heat on it when I got up and took ibuprofen about an hour before heading out. Once I got out the door things didn't feel all that easy but I did talk myself from four miles into six. And now sitting here the hip feels pretty good. ( the pain will be later!) pretty nice run, but I have felt like a turtle all week! Average time 9:55. I get so jealous when I read all the guys on the blogs comments, they seem to have all these gears and an accelerator to choose from, I tend to be stuck in second gear! On the bright side it's FINALLY FRIDAY!!!!! This marathon week at our house is almost in the bag... Yea!!!! Can't wait to hear all of the weekend race reports! Good luck to everyone!!!

Got out a little late this morning since we didn't get to bed till around two. Decided to just do a quick run and then help my husband tackle the neglected yard, that somewhat resembles a jungle! Still felt a little sluggish this morning. Hope to hit the ground running next week and get a long run in there too. Hope that we can settle into a better schedule and get to bed at night, i think that would really help. So far since school started Mon. we've just been getting up early and staying up like it was still summer!

Headed out as soon as the kids got off to school this morning. A little overcast and humid out but the temps. were good and it felt nice. I thought out a new route last night before bed because I wanted something different today, but wasn't sure on the distance so I just went with it and hoped I would get in a nice run for the start of the week. Knowing that I have to work tonight and tomorrow night and my runs are usually short for those days. The new route seemed to be a good one and I felt really good. It wasn't untill about a mile in I realized that I didn't have any hip pain!!!! (Yeaaa) Around mile 5 I did start to feel it creep back into my run and by mile 6 it was back again. Mile 7 feeling a little tired and ready to be done. But really felt good the whole time all things considered and glad to get the week off to a good start!

Ran home after work this morning.  Nice and cool out.  Average pace 9:47

Started to run home after work this morning and about half way there, I realized that I didn't have anyone to get me back to my car untill around five today. So I decided to mix it up and wander the streets and then head back up to the hospital and just drive home. My calves were a little so from the two previous runs this weekk, but other than that felt pretty good inspite of being up all night! Even pushed myself towards the end. After sleeping for a few hours today when I got up calves still very sore. Can't figure out why they are always the only muscle to get sore, and why they do so often. I would think that with the regular use they get this wouldn't happen so often?

last night before going to bed I did some leg exercises...squats, lunges ect. Today when I got up I wasn't particularly sore, but when I went out to run, I was stiff. Legs just felt heavy and didn't feel like they would go where my brain was telling them to go. wanted to do a longer run, but just didn't have it in me. So I'm hoping to have all the stiffness worked out today and get a longer run in tomorrow. I'm sure doing some strenght training for the legs would help with endurance and possibley speed, but right now I'm wondering where the balance should be as to not decrease my miles weekly due to soreness?

Six hard miles today. Maybe it was the heat (just felt hot today) maybe it was the sore muscles, maybe I'm just tired. There was only one mile, around four that felt pretty good. The route that I did today is always mentally tough for me but today it was physically too. I had told my self at the end of mile five at the top of a small hill that I could walk. But by the time I got there I talked myself out of it again because I knew that I would be mad at myself all day for that one. Pushed through, and actually lived to tell about it!!! Well.... the weekend is here, everyone have a good one! :)