Surgery today...

And no running for a couple weeks, at least. This morning I should be enjoying my last long run in a while. I'm headed to the Dr.'s office in a couple hours to have some veins "closed." I'm sick of my right leg swelling up every few weeks because my blood won't circulate.


YUM!

My beautiful jogging partner

Sarah LOVES getting outside and playing now. She doesn't love getting strapped in the stroller for a run. On yesterday's run, about midway through, she turns around, opens up the back flap, grabs the cord to my earphones and pulls them out of my ears so that she can have them. I decided to let her keep them. So she listened to my tunes the rest of the way. I think I will give her the Shuffle from now on if it makes her stay calm and like the rides.

I did the same 8.5. I little slower because I'm worried about the pain I am having in my right knee since the last run. It doesn't hurt if I go slow. I guess I'm going to have to start over and build back up again.

I love running in the heat. I reminds me of the time when I fell in love with running at Jacob's Lake in 1992. I ran in the AZ heat all the time and just became accustomed to that. It feels good to me. The run yesterday was mid afternoon and probably in the 80's.

5 1/2 months to St. George Marathon

I haven't done any kind of running for about 3 weeks, since I started homeschool with my 9 year old. I finally escaped today. If I were smart, I would have just done a light 4-5 miles. I went 8 1/2. Anything less than that and I just feel like I haven't worked out. I hate not being able to run in the mornings. I'm going to start just recording any and all working out I do, so that I can at least feel like I'm doing something when I can't run.

So... today 8.5 miles. It took me an hour and 20 min.

bleh.

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New Iron Man in Southern Utah!

http://www.examiner.com/x-2490-Denver-Endurance-Sports-Examiner~y2009m2d6-St-George-Utah-to-host-new-Ironman-race-in-May-of-2010

I tried to post the link to the article here but couldn't get it to work. Anyway... Ironman... I think I'm going to have to do it. I don't ever ride a bike. I have a mt. bike, but never had a road bike. I guess if I feel like I have to do an ironman, I'm going to have to have a bike? Maybe I ought to try a triathlon first too? And the next obvious step before an ironman would be a century? Geez... It's not that I'm competitive. I actually hate competition. I just like a personal challenge. It's a year and a half away and I've been told one should take that long to train. Guess I'll get on it!

Winter blues

I miss my trail so bad. Sarah is getting old enough to know it's not alot of fun to sit in that jogger for an hour to an hour and a half, especially when it's cold. So she doesn't cooperate very much anymore. I haven't been on the trail for probably a good three weeks to a month. Then the holidays, then I got sick. I jogged today on the treadmill at 6.5 mph, 1% grade for an hour. The inside of my knee started hurting. Is that just because I've been sedentary for a while? I'm thinking I'd be better off now starting a cooking blog.

There's a half marathon here in a couple weeks. If I can pull it together by then and actually get some good runs in without my knee causing problems I'll do it. If not, I'll start that cooking blog. I've got a great recipe for Pear Streusel I'm dieing to share!

Slow 7.5 and possible stress fracture.

Just a couple weeks ago I actually said this to my husband:
Me: "There is ONE thing I really like about my body."
Ron: "Really?!!!" He has never heard me say anything nice about my body, so he was happily surprised. "What?!"
Me: "My feet. I think they're pretty cute. No weird bumps or lumps and they never hurt like yours. I can be pretty grateful for my great feet."
Knock-on-wood. Not a week later, I start noticing that at the end of a day, the ball of my foot right under my second toe hurts and when I lay down in bed it's throbbing. I'm thinking it could be a stress fracture. Strange to get one now though, when I have not really been doing alot of miles. The other option is that it's my flip-flops that are pulling weird on that toe and just causing it to strain a little. I hope it's the latter and that with the coming of Fall and Winter I will notice the discomfort go away as the flip-flops go away.

I ran this morning and noticed my usually fatigue, but decided that a slow jog was better than nothing, so just pushed through it. I stayed at a pretty slow pace, but noticed that it wasn't just grueling like it was a couple weeks ago. I'm able to keep it going for as long as I want. I actually don't mind giving up on the racing training. It's no secret I hate speed work.

It's pretty interesting to watch your body change with weight training. Running trims you down, but weights totally change the shape of your body. Bulges where their weren't any, cuts where there were none, stuff "lifting" where it was once sagging! It's a fun experiment. I've always known I bulk up really easily, so I have to be careful. My thighs are... not needing bulk! Your appetite is alot bigger with weight training as well. Your muscles are using purely sugar that's stored in them to lift weights, as opposed to sugar and fat with running. So, I really crave carbs now. Another thing to be careful of. I have to adjust everything with the new routine. It's been a good thing to break up my usual thing.

I've been having great days lately. Actually feeling happy and excited about things. The Holidays are coming up and I don't remember the last time I was excited about that. It feels so good. I hate that I need medicine to feel normal though.