Moving Forward

Got up before work today YAHOOOO and got in a few miles. The plan is to go to the gym and get a few more after work, also do a bit of weights (Blah)

So this morning was a pretty good run. Are the days already getting shorter? It seemed much darker this morning then it has in a while. Maybe I was out a bit earlier or many there just wasn't any moon this morning. My headlight got broke the other day so I will need to buy a new one soon. Because it was so dark I loop the neighborhood a bit til I felt more comfortable. As I got to the top of the hill, and headed down another street, I looked up just in time to see a shooting star... so cool. It was just before it was too light to see any stars. I ran part of the 5K course I ran a few weeks ago, then did 3 hill repeats by the round-a-bout. This is the hill I normally do hill work on (Not that I do it that often) but instead of just turning around at the top and running down, I went around the round-a-bout that is by it. I think I like doing it this way... it gives me a bit of a break to catch my breath. I don't know if that is how you should do hill work though. I would have gotten about 1/2 a miles more but as I was coming down the hill back to my house my tummy really started to bug, so I just went straight home.

*Went to the gym after work and got three more miles in on the treadmill. Then did upper body weights and core work. 

I don't even remember turning off the alarm this morning! So by the time I woke on my own, there was not way I was going to get a run in :( In fact it was lucky that I made it to work on time. Don't really know what's up with me, but I have been miss placing things and forgetful alot for the past few days. I hope I can pull myself together soon. 

So I ended up at the gym again....I ran miles 3 and 5 at a 8mm pace. Miles 2, 4 and 6 and a 8.5 mm pace, then the others at between 9 and 9.5. I guess this is a temp run of sorts. It felt pretty good. Towards the end of the fastest miles my breathing was getting harder, not too bad though. I hope that I can get myself up tomorrow for a morning run!

I had a battle with my inner 2 year old this morning. It was not pretty... I got up and walked around the house a bit, did the potty thing, and got dressed to run... then undressed and back in bed.... then got up and got dressed again!! My arguments "It's too dark and I dont' have a head light that works" ..."You don't want to run on the treadmill again so get dressed"... "My heel is hurting a bit maybe running on the treadmill would be better"...."Doing all you miles on the treadmill is not good for your body or your mind" ... This went on until I finally put on my big girl panties and got myself out the door! It was crazy!! So needless to say I only got a bit over four miles in. I will probably get a few more in at the gym after work. The run felt pretty good first two miles were slower then the last two. I averaged a 8:50mm for the run.

** After work ran a slow (9:30mm) three miles on the treadmill. Zoning out and contenplating the past few heated conversations I have been having with my 19 year old son. He seems to think he needs a motorcycle. I on the other hand feel that there is no way while he is living under my roof he will have one. His goal job, when he grows up, will be building and fixing motorcycles so his arrgument to me is that eventually this will happen and he will own and ride them. I have told him I'm fine with this career choice and that it will be when he has moved out. Needless to say he feels I'm unresonable. A couple of days ago a co-workers 19 year old son borrowed a friends motorcycle and crashed coming down Ogden canyon without a helmet. I now listen as he is telling me they are hoping he will wake-up. All the dreams they have had for this young man, have changed. Now you are just hoping he will regain some of what we consider a normal life. All the questions... will he walk? Will he be the same? What kind of life/functioning will he have. When my son talks with me about this motorcycle as if nothing could ever happen to him... even when I told him about this other kid. He looks at me and says that will never happen to him... Oh to be 19 and bullet proof... in some ways I do envy that mindset. But for now all that talk just confirms to me that he is no where near mature enough to have a motorcycle.

Another run at the gym... I'm getting a little better at mornings, but not as good as I need to be. Sometimes zoning out on the treadmill is not too bad. I guess that's what tonight was... It's a bit like moving meditation. Took the scissors to my hair last night, again probably not the best thing to do but my hair was really bugging me. LOL No one at work or home commented so it either looks so bad they didn't want to say anything or I didn't change it to bad. Oh and I got a new headlight...if I get up in time tomorrow I will try it out. 

So I could not sleep last night... first my youngest daughter was out with some friends. I have a very hard time falling asleep when my kids are not home. I'm getting better when it comes to my youngest son, but for some reason it has not clicked yet with my daughter. After about 40 minutes of trying to sleep I got up and went to my doll room/studio and worked on a pair of hands for a new doll that I have been working on. Then I made my biggest mistake... I got on the computer to see what time the movie she went to was going to get out, and I got draw in to the time suck of the internet...all the wonderful info on so many things right at your finger tips. Sometimes it is just too enticing! So even after I made my way back to my bed, it took me a while to shut down my brain from all the things I was looking at. To most people pretty borning doll stuff LOL to me it's like heroin! Needless to say when the alarm went off for a morning run I turned it off and went back to sleep. I will be double fisting the diet Dr. Pepper to keep me going at work.

Also on a somewhat related note... I have been so forgetful lately. Misplacing my purse, my braces and then this morning I packed my gym bag for my run after work and when I got to work I realized it is still back home somewhere. Probably by the door waiting for me to pick it up! Let's hope this is a passing phase that will pass me by soon. I hate the feeling that I'm loosing it.

** Update after work:

4 slow/easy miles... called my running friend and she wants to do 12-13 tomorrow. We are planning to do TOU 1/2 in a few weeks... maybe I should be planning better for it??

Met Sue at the Monroe parking lot on the parkway. We ran down the parkway...into Fort Buenaventura  had to stop in the fort for a potty break. Then we ran back up to the car... as we were approaching the car I told her we were almost to 12 miles, and asked if she wanted to stop at that or go to 12. She informed me that she wanted to go to 13! I said OK and we proceeded up the parkway farther. At the 13 mile mark she said we needed to do 13.1 LOL This is the farthest she has run since her injurie. It's so great to have her back running with me on Saturdays. I have missed her soooo much.

13.10 miles - 2:03:21

laps: 9:06, 8:57, 8:36, 8:48, 9:43(walked a bit while we had a drink) 9:20, 9:24, 9:18, 10:08( walked a bit again to drink and eat a bit) 9:47, 9:54 (these were hard miles... up a slight incline, but also with a killer head wind) 9:41, 9:47 (here I just think we were getting very tired) last .10 8:28.