Moving Forward

So today I ran on the roads around my work. It is light enough now that I can get a run in as long as I'm not held up at work. It felt pretty good, can't say I really like all the traffic. I think I might try to run on the parkway, but it was pretty good. Shin's felt OK I'm icing them as I type. 

6 miles - 54:08

average pace 8:39

best pace 7:29

Went to the endro dr. and he says that I'm hyper, but not by much so I told him to let me be and see if things adjust because I'm finally feeling better. 

Ran on the treadmil for 5, shin was buggin' a bit more then yesterday, but it was also the first time I ran with out it wrapped. Been trying to find some kind of compression thing for my calve so I don't have to wrap it all the time, because it bothers me a bit. Anyway not bad all in all I'm happy with my progress. 

Well I Ran the parkway tonight, but when I started my garmin it somehow didn't get a a satalite so all it did was time me. Duh!! I parked in the parking lot of Peak Performance running store, owed by Anthony Gallegos, one of the nicest people you would want to know. Any way he told me that the mileage was about 5.4 miles because he had run it earlier this week with his garmin. He aslo let me borrow his calf compression sleeve, it's just like the ones that I orded, it helped quite a bit with my calf. :) 

5.4 miles - 49:22

So today I thought it would be a good run... but somewhere it turned into a crappy one. It wasn't my shins as much as my calves. They were painfully tight, I felt like I had to stop and stretch them about every mile. I was trying my best to do a mid heel strike so that my shins didn't hurt... that seems to help. Anyway after I finished I got terrible cramps and some slight nausea. Think I'll head to bead early. I have a massage scheduled for tomorrow so I hope that will help my calves. 

6.2 miles - 1:00:49

Best - 7:43 - this had to be a fluke - or maybe it was just for a few seconds.

Average - 9:33

laps - 9:36, 10:12, 10:23, 9:26, 9:37, 9:37, last bit 9:33

I'm disappointed in my race results, but not surprised. I knew that I had not been feeling well the past few months plus the added bonus of shin splints. Then on top of it all this is one of the hardest 5K courses I have ever run. John from Stiders, who puts on the race, jokes that it's a 5K that feels like a 10K. After seeing Nate (massage guy) last night my shin felt better then they have in at least a month, then my compression sleeves were in the mail last night so they were great to run with. I can just hope that I continue to feel better and better, slowly up my miles and the drop a few extra pounds. 

Tonight was a pretty good run... knee felt a bit wonky after 51/2 miles, so I probably shouls have stopped at 5, but it was not bad. 

6.2 miles - 58:14

Well my Garmin battery died about 1/2 a mile into my run so I don't know my pace, but this was the same route I ran last week so I know the miles. In fact I ran just a bit farther but I'm not certain by how much so I just left it at the 6.2. So I don't know my pace...but I can say that this run felt quite a bit better then last time I ran it. :)

The snow stopped just in time for me to get my run in after work :) It was a pretty good run... shins were just a bit buggy. I need to be icing more. Any way I'm not going to complain about all my aches and pains... I'm just to whinny. 

5 miles - 45:53

Best 6:45 (must have been for a milisecond) Average 9:10

Laps: 9:07, 9:16, 9:20, 9:00, 9:07

Didn't sleep very well last night. The plan was to park at the gym, do my run then go into the gym and do some weights, stretches and abs. So I have been having some emotional runs, don't know why but sometimes I just get teary. So I thought I might as well have a good reason to get emotional, so I ran to the cemetery were my friend is buried. 1.5 miles to his grave, had a good cry for a bit, then ran around the perimeter of the cemetery, and through all the cross streets for another mile or so. Then around the neighborhood. and back to the gym. All in all a pretty good run, a bit slower then yesterday. When I could finally pull myself together after his death the cemetery was my first run, in fact I think it was my first few runs. So it was kind-of nice to do it again. Makes me miss him alot though.

5.5 miles - 52:02

best: 7:21 average: 9:10

Laps, 9:43, 9:22, 9:35, 9:17, 9:23, 9:22

* My friend was an old school skate boarded, besides a runner. There were skate board wheels at his grave, I later found out that my son was the person that left them. :)

Had a pretty good run tonight. Got a later start then last night so I didn't have time to go into the gym and do some weights. Most likely I will be at the gym tomorrow, so I will be able to get some weights in then. It is suppossed to be snowing in the morning and I just don't think I will have it in me to do it alone. 

6.2 miles - 58:20

best 7:43 average 9:24

laps: 9:14, 9:24, 9:42, 9:18, 9:17, 9:31, 9:11

Today was hard, I went to the gym and trudged it out on the treadmill. I'm so ready to have the snow gone. I think my lack of good sleep caught up with me today, either that or I"m not as healed as I thought. 

My oldest daughter is coming over today with the grandkids to make valentines cookies. 

Hope everyone has a great valentines day with their loved ones.:)

6 miles - 58:56

Still not getting enough sleep :( But it was an OK run, my shins are not hurting as much...but my legs are very stiff and heavy feeling especially my calves. They get tighter and tighter during my run, don't really know whats going on with it.

5 miles - 49:06

OK tonight I'm going to bed early I promise! ! 

Thanks to all your wonderful advice here... and Carolyn's link I figured out that my easy runs needed to be much slower then what I was doing, and I think I will take Marion's advise and do some easy runs for a week or more to try and get feeling better.... So tonight I did 1 mile on the eliptical to warm-up then 5 miles on the treadmil, at 10:20 pace. After all this snow I wimped out for the treadmill.

We had a power outage at work so I got to go home even earlier the I had planned. Today was Parent Teacher Conference so I was planning to leave a little early but instead it was almost another hour earlier :) !!! Today was a beautiful, I parked at the gym, then ran around the city... My husband and son don't like me doing this... afraid I'm in bad areas, but I have black pants, red jacket, blue hat, green ipod, so don't I cover all the gang affiliated colors? They should consider me like Swiss, I'm neutral :) The weather was perfect, sky was bright blue. It was great! I had to really concentrate on making it an easy run. I wanted to keep at about the same pace I was yesterday, but I had to really make myself slow down. Shin bugged a bit towards the end but nothing real bad. I will ice it tonight.

6.11 miles - 1:01:16

laps, 9:51, 9:42, 9:52, 9:51, 10:10, 10:31, 11:31 (lost of traffic at the end)

Looks like I need to practice some negatice spilts like Marion :)

Tonight was pretty good, I bit harder then last night. I need to take it easier tomorrow so I will have energy for the race Saturday. Shins bugged a bit more tonight, I better ice them tonight. 

5 miles - 48:48

laps - 9:28, 9:11, 9:43, 9:55, 10:26

Pretty good run, shins bugged just a bit, just a slow easy run... well pretty easy, I probably should have took it a bit easier, but when I'm outside and it's so beautiful it's hard to slow myself sown enough. But I did pretty good. I'm not really looking forward to the race tomorrow, so keep me in your prayers tonight that I will have a pain free run. 

5.50 miles - 54:06

laps: 9:53, 10:03, 9:46, 9:42, 9:54, 9:41

Well I felt pretty good about today's race until I looked at my time from last year. I'm 61/2 minutes slower then last year... AGHHH that sucks so bad!

The race was pretty good, my main objective was to finish feeling good and that was accomplished, so in that fact I'm happy. Also I knew about all the hills so again my goal was to not have to walk too much on the hills. Mission accomplished again!! When I was almost to the top there was a guy pushing a jogging stroller that passed my on the down hill like I was standing still, so when I saw him running the big hill at the end I made the goal to pass him... and I did !!! So there were some very good things about it to.

7 miles - 1:08:59

splits: 9:41, 8:45, 9:30, 10:06, 10:58, 10:21, 9:34

So I did not sleep very well last night, and have not been feeling well all day. I don't think I'm coming down with anything I think it's just the lack of sleep. So I knew that I better take it a bit easy today. 

Just did 4 miles on the eliptical then a mile in the treadmill. Little bit of weights, lots of stretching, and that's all I wanted to do, maybe it's the gray day that's also got me in a funk.

Had a great nights sleep and man it really help me feel better. Weird how sleep, or lack of it effects me. 

It was a beautiful day!!! My first day in shorts!! But boy do I have the whitest legs! It is scary, but I don't care it was a great run!

7 miles - 1:08:37

laps: 9:40, 9:41, 10:02, 9:43, 9:45, 9:44, 10:01

Got a late start tonight, had an appointment after work. So I just ran the loop at my house. I can tell that I'm feeling better because I was able to take the hills at a much better pace then before. It felt pretty good to not have to walk at all :) !!! Was a bit colder then yesterday I was going to wear shorts again but as I was standing outside waiting for my garmin to find the satilight, the breeze was just too much, by the end I was pretty warm but I don't think I could have handeled the run in shorts.

 5.18 miles - 49:05

laps: 10:01, 9:07, 9:05, 9:54, 9:12, 9:33

Tonight was a pretty good run, there was one pretty bad thing, I forgot my sports bra. I was temped to go commando, I don't have much in that department, but I wore my regular one instead. I like running the parkway in Ogden now that the snow has melted off it. I usually run the upper half, more people are on that path, but the past few times I have run the lower part. It's pretty going around the 21st street pond, but tonight as I was going around the back something caught my attention and spooked me, it ended up being a few deer. Then about a mile later I was coming around a corner and I could see something by a tree. I thought it was a person but as I got to it... it was just a bag someone hung on the tree. I figured I'd had enough spookiness so I turned around after that. 

Shins started to buggning the last little bit, I think I will take it easy tomorrow. 

7 miles - 1:09:31

laps:9:47,9:50,9:46, 10:00,10:01, 10:14, 9:52

Slow and easy was the mantra tonight. I felt good... so I should have the energy to go a bit longer tomorrow :)

5 miles - 50:52

Laps - 9:56, 10:04, 10:10, 10:23, 10:19

Goal today was slow and long... and I did pretty well!! This is the longest miles I have run in a while. It felt good to be able to plod along at my snail speed :) I didn't have to stop and walk any hills! I ran the entire time! I can't tell you how good that felt, it's been so long since I've felt this good on a long run. 

10:09 - 1:41:33

laps: 10:14, 10:11, 9:40, 10:02, 10:32, 10:20, 10:02, 9:51, 10:11, 9:39, 10:03