Going With The Flow

Went skiing at Brighton today - lots of powder and fun tree skiing! We skied until our fingers and toes were frozen solid then called it a day. Turns out Jake does get tired after 150 miles when we do non-running activity! The mountains are finally looking like winter.

AM - Did some core and strengthening exercises for 25 minutes or so. After 4 weeks of having pain on the ball of my foot (on the 2nd metatarsal), I have decided to take a week off from putting any pressure on it. I'm still debating on whether to get an x-ray and make sure it's not a stress fracture. So this pretty much means nothing except pool running and strength training (and probably gaining 5 lbs)...I think my goal will be to pool run a mile in less than Fritz's 70 minutes.

Yesterday was probably the least active I have been since I have moved to Utah over a year and a half ago. I feel sooo lazy. This morning I stuck with strenghening exercises again for 30 minutes. Core strength and arms during lunch.

Because I'm the only one at work that doesn't have a family with 3+ kids, I have been put in charge of entertaining a girl from Brazil that is visiting for the next two weeks. She is super sweet which helps a lot! #1 priority is that she is shopping for a wedding dress (b/c it costs $1000 just to rent a dress in Brazil!) so I am serving as stand-in mom. Besides that, I have nothing exciting to do! If anyone has fun suggestions for evening activities, let me know. We'll probably take her sledding/snowshoeing this weekend because she's never seen snow before. Maybe I could get her to run in the SLC 5k this weekend too? :o)

Strengthening exercises for 25 minutes in the morning and 20 minutes during lunch.

PM - Met up with Lulu Walls for some kickboard pool fun. Didn't count but probably did at least 0.25 miles in 30 minutes. We got cold so moved to the hot tub...ahhh to be a typical exerciser. 

AM - Strengthening exercises for 35 minutes. I haven't had time to check people's blogs this week, but Jake is catching me up...sounds like everyone is having good workouts!

Thought this video picking on triathletes was comical - *Stuff* Triathletes Say. There is one for runners too but it's not nearly as funny.

Starting to go crazy. Last time I took 5 days off from running was probably 10 years ago - I feel like I'm blowing up like a balloon (which is why I refuse to weigh myself until I start running again). On a positive note, both my back and foot feel A LOT better. I am just nervous that they are going to hurt again as soon as I start back running again. We'll see. This morning was another round of strength training/core for 30 minutes.

Going to the Brad Paisley/The Band Perry/Scotty McCreery concert tonight. I'm so excited!

AM - Served as the photographer/cheering squad for the SLC 5k. It was actually quite a relief to go to a race and not have to run in it! Was definitely a little sad I couldn't join in on the cooldown run, which is definitely the best part of the whole event. Took some pretty good photos, check out Jake's blog for the link. 

PM - JAJA Snowshoe adventure with my co-worker from Brazil. Rafaela isn't much of an athlete, so it was a little bit of a stretch for her to go up 9000ft and hike with us. But she had a great time and it turns out that she loves snow! The views were gorgeous and it was really nice to get outdoors and have some fun. I really thought my foot would be throbbing this evening, but it actually feels pretty good :o) Hope that means good things...