Moving Forward

Too tired to explain... I promise to explain tomorrow :)

For those of you that have been worried about me… sorry for being absent, but I will explain what has been going on.

I had a big fat 0 on Thursday because I just could not get out of bed, and then I had a work banquet that night. I have been at this company for 15 years in November. Pretty crazy! I got a run on Friday… nothing too great just an easy one, and same with Saturday morning.

So I have been having a VERY stressful week. I have not been feeling very well either. My husband started a week long vacation on Saturday and I knew that he really wanted to get away and do something fun. I’m usually not very good at being spontaneous. But Saturday morning after my run we packed up and took both our mothers and our youngest daughter and drove to Vegas! So my runs on Monday and Tuesday were on the Vegas strip!! I got my butt slapped on Monday as I ran through an intersection! Pretty wild! We took my mother so she could visit one of he brothers that she has not seen in a few years. We took my mother-in-law because she loves to gamble just like my husband and our youngest daughter just so she could have some fun also. My youngest son could not get off work, so he stayed home.

I had a wonderful time! I relaxed by the pool and read my book. We did all three rides on top of the Stratosphere Casino, and saw three shows! It felt really good to just decompress after last week. The one thing that was probably bad was all the food that I ate! Holy Cow! Yep I probably ate as much as a cow!

So today I ran before work… parent teacher conference tonight. Didn’t get a lot of miles in, but it was an OK run. I’m still experiencing some quick but strong bouts of nausea at times, it’s kinda weird. I had some tummy issues this morning, but I think that had more to do with all the junk I ate over the weekend. So it’s back to being more watchful of my diet and I hope it helps with both the tummy issues and maybe the nausea issue. It took me a while to feel warmed up to run this morning… still a bit achy even at the end.

5.28 miles – 47:23

Laps: 9:01, 9:40, 9:12, 8:39, 8:30, (.28) 8:23,

The plan today was to run my warm up to the 21st street pond. Then do three miles at 8mm pace with a .25 rest between. Then run back to my car. I took the auto lap off the garmin so that I could make the laps myself.

My execution of the plan: I ran 1.75 to the pond...at 8:56 pace. I seem to have a problem with my warm ups... I think they are always a bit too fast. I ran until my garmin read an even mile marker so that I would not have to do too much math LOL.

1 miles at 7.51 pace. So for my first mile I was probably a bit too fast... this was difficult by the end I was ready to slow down.

.25 at 9:59 pace. I had to walk a bit to catch my breath.

Next 1 mile fast at 7:49 pace... again this was very difficult by the end lungs and legs were burning!

.25 at 10:04pace, had to walk a bit... as I was getting closer to my last fast bit I was really dreading it, but kept telling myself just one more.

Last 1 mile at 8:13... at about .25 to the end of the last fast mile I really started to hurt! My left hip joint and pubic bone felt like they were on fire! I should have stopped but I wanted to make the entire mile.

.33 at 11:01... this was suposed to be .25 but I was hurting so much I forgot to hit the lap button.

Last 1.90 miles was a slow limp back to the car. I was seriously hurting and still am! I'm so upset that I'm this out of shape! I finally try to do a serious work out and not just my usual run, and I end up hurt, and to top it off I signed up for a race Saturday!!! CRAP!!!

I will see how I feel tomorrow it I run or not. How do you know if you have just a pulled muscle or something more serious. When my running friend had pelvic stress fractures she said she could not stand the one leg that hurt. So I stood on my left foot and I can do it with out too much pain... she said she could not even lift her foot off the ground. So I'm thinking its just a pulled muscle. But it hurts now to just sit or walk. :( I'm just so completely sad and angry with myself. 

7.47 miles: 1:08:14

Did a very slow 6 miles on the treadmill. Earlier this week I was thinking I would run in the morning tomorrow, because the striders 7 race that I'm doing starts a 3PM. But after the way I was feeling yesterday after trying to do some fast miles, I decided that I will just run the race. Not much to talk about... there wasn't even any fun/weird people at the gym tonight :( 

Earlier this week I had planned on running in the morning before the race, it started at 3:00PM. But after having trouble Thursday I figured I better take it a bit easier.

So I met up with my running friend at the buses, she was already worried about the heat.

The first 1/8 mile of the race is going up a hill and is was a very quick transition from the parking lot to a single track trail, so it was difficult trying to get around people that were going slower then I wanted. The path widened a bit and I was able to get around quite a few people... this was were I lost my running friend. The next area was the rolling trails of the Bonneville Shoreline Trail. It was wonderful! I love this trail and to be doing it in a race was extra fun! There was a aid station at the trail head parking lot. Then we had to run through a neighborhood for a few blocks, then we ran the birdsong trail. This is a newer tail that I have not ran on as often but I have in the past few months, because it's at the top of the parkway, so sometimes when I run there and want to add a few more miles I have ran this trail. The trail ends up at the top of the parkway and the last part of the race is the same as the Ogden marathon. As I came out on to the road I was really struggling, the heat was starting to get to me. I finished feeling pretty good. The hip did OK and I'm pretty happy all in all with the day. 

I didn't get home til later... We had dinner down town and walked around the festivities. Then I had to come home and help get my daughter ready for the homecoming dance. A pretty busy day. Tomorrow all the kids will come over for a joint birthday party (Husbands was the 19th, oldest son's today and oldest grandaughter's is Monday) another busy lovely day :)

Laps: 11:49( trying to get around the people and hills) 8:45, 8:15, 8:39, 8:32, 9:00, 8:53 started to struggle at the end. I don't think I have run the trails that fast before :)