Moving Forward

I got my hubby and daughter to the gym with me!!! Hubby spends he entire work day out in the heat so he opted to swim, then came out and did some weights with me. Daughter and I did about 3 on the elliptcal, then I ran 2 on the treadmill. I think she got in about 1 mile of running. She is still at the run/walk phase.

5 miles on the elliptical... stress seemed to be a factor today, just wanted to sweat for a long time and not think about anything so I stayed on the elliptical hoping to rid myself of the stressfull feelings. I ended up mowing the lawn also when I got home... then needed a long conversation with my hubby, after that I was feeling a bit better.

Three and half miles running on the TM, the last mile was in my stocking feet.

Sorry I have not been on the blog to answer some of the comments that have been posted. My knee is feeling OK, still some pain but nothing that really stops me too much. I don't know if I will ever get more speed, that seems to be slower to recover. I don't plan on any races soon, especially nothing over a 10K for a while. I might run a 5K this fall with my daughter and daughter-in-law, but that is yet to be arranged. For now I'm just enjoying my Saturday runs with Sue... doing what we can and enjoying the company.

Two miles running then another walking. Not too much to say about this workout... my stress is child related, at twenty years old they think they know everything, but are still young enough to make too many stupid mistakes. I think as a parent one of the hardest things we have to do is let out children learn from their mistakes and take the consequences of their action.

So I had my works 5K that I had to work at. I talked Sue into helping out also, then we could run after. So while I was picking up some boxes of shirts for the race from the printers. I was holding the do open with my leg since I was holding the box with my hands, the door slid down the back of my foot. I toughed it out and Sue and I ran after the our work was done at the race. As you can see by my picture running didn't help it too much, it was also about 87 degrees by the time we got running, I was HOT!! One of the kids that was helping us at the race told me I was a hard core runner LOL I guess he didn't see my waddling along on my run.

So... my knee was hurting quite a bit on Saturday and Sunday... I even noticed that it was a bit swollen. DANG!!! I really thought it was over all this.... But I guess it really dosn't like me running on pavement. So I took it a bit easy on it and just did 5 miles on the elliptical. By the time I got to the gym  my knee really didn't hurt too much, but the big scrape on the back of my heel hurts to have my running shoes on, so I think it needs to heal up a bit more before I can try running again. I'll see how I feel tomorrow.

A couple of nights not sleeping well is starting to catch up with me... Really need to try to get to bed earlier. 11/2 on the treadmill in shoes and 11/2 in my socks, then another mile of fast walkin while I watched some cake competition show. A little bit of weights and then abs and streaching!! Not really much but this seems to be my usual now.

Three miles on the elliptical... I was having some tummy issues and was passing gas quite a bit. I think it was too much sugar free gum, it always seems to do a number on me. Anyway and was clearing out all the other ellipticalers LOL no one seemed to want to be next to me... Oh well... then I did two miles on the TM one in shoes one in just socks.

Had to be to work at 5:00am, so that means the alarm goes off at 4:45 so I can get ready and drive to work on time. Needless to say after so many nights not sleeping well then my early morning work time, I was not really motivated to workout to hard. I stayed on the elliptical for 5 miles watching the first transformers movie... then ran 1.5 miles. I really didn't have more in me.

Not much to say... TM running, 11/2 with shoes, 11/2 without.

Sue was out of town so I talked my hubby into biking with me... sounded like lot of fun right? Well for the most part it was, until I decided to take a tumble... yep thats right, I didn't clip out of my peddles fast enough and took a fall directly onto my bad knee and hip, between this fall and the already scrapped up heel on this side I've had it!!! I was so mad at myself! I have a huge purple bruse on my hip and a scrape on my knee, and the cut on my heel from last weekend episode is not looking very good, I think I will go to the doctor after work... I've had it!!

5 miles on the elliptical... nothing much to say about it. 

3 on the elliptical and 3 miles on the treadmill, 1.5 without my shoes. Then did some upper body weights and abs. 

Three on the treadmill, 1.5 in my socks... knee was really bugging about .25 from the end. I was limping quite a bit when I walked out :(

4 on the elliptical

5 on the elliptical and 1 on the treadmill

Ran trails with Sue and really struggled, did not feel good the entire run and was really sore after... Hope things feel better soon.

A quick (as quick as I can go) 5K on the treadmill with my daughter after getting our blood work done. 

5 on the elliptical then weights... then 3.5 on the treadmill, the last 1.5 in my stocking feet.

An hour on the elliptical, thought I would give my knee a break today and not run. 

Busy weekend... having trouble getting my running in.... need to try to do it earlier.

Had to do a quick run, was hoping to get four but settled for 3.5.