track fan

30` on the treadmill + 60` on the elliptical.

We got up super early to cheer for people running the Jim Click 8k.  The course is pretty much all on the U of A campus and the proceeds go to adaptive athletics program here.  There are a HUGE group of wheelchair athletes who train here in town.  As a matter of fact, most of the athletes from here travel and win most big races (the overall winner of the Bix 7 mile race this past summer is one of these athletes). These guys (and gals) are tough as nails.  Anyway, the McMillan elite group had a great day with the two top women from Gregs group taking the race (Jamie Winslow, nee Cantenberry, and Erin Bidell, running 29:23 and 29:33, respectively).  In the mens race, a local hero took the honors (~23:50) with an "ex-McMillan elite" Ian Burrell taking 2nd (24:00).  Then 3rd and 4th were some new McMillan Elite talent that just moved to Flagstaff , Scott Smith and Marco Anzures) -- there is a 13:36 5Ker that just joined the team, but he did not come down for the race, I would have loved to meet him (Aaron Braun - a 16 time All-American who won 6 national championships while at Adams State).

Fun morning!  Now I have to get back to work.  I hope you are having wonderful weekends, relishing in your family, your races and your dreams!!

60` on the elliptical ... what more can one say about this boring machine?

Good birthday ... although I guest lectured for 3 hours, and then taught my own class for 2 hours, and then tried to get work done while being interrupted by students every 5 mins ... but, this is my life after all ;-)

Tomorrow I am going to get my new orthotics.  Greg promised me that I would be frustrated by the first two weeks back -- his schedule for me is quite conservative ... but, I trust him, therefore I will do what he says.  And supplement with boring cross-training.  I think I might water run with a local standout runner who is recovering from labral tear surgery ... it will be the only time I can run with her as she is way faster than me ;-).  She used to live in Salt Lake City - some of you may know her, Paula Morrison?

Have a great day bloggers

36:52.

Off to Phoenix to get fit for my orthotics ... there was an awesome rain last night, thunder and heavy rain. All the saguaros are full of water today, they look plump and happy!

55 mins on the elliptical.  I did not go for an hour for two reasons, first, I was so not into it yesterday that it was all I could do to drag myself to the gym.  After I got there I was inspired to just "do something" and I thought ... 55 mins, I can do that.  Secondly, I had promised Dean I would be home by 8PM (I still did not make it, but it was because I was talking to John, our doctor ... more on that later). 

So, Dean had an MRI on Tuesday.  As a little history, Dean has not run since around Christmas last year, and before that he had not been able to run for over 6 months.  The first issue was a hamstring/hip issue that seemed to get "better" (although there was some evidence of a labral tear in his hip) and then *blam* something happened in his foot.  He had been able to run ~20` at a time a few days a week until about a month ago, and now he is in pain even walking around.  Dean has been a competitive runner since high school (and he ran in college).  The past two years have been very hard for him.  Well, the MRI found that he has Freiberg's disease, it is an avascular necrosis of the metatarsal head.  He also has capsulitis (which is probably the more painful of the two).  He needs to see a podiatrist, but surgery is indicated for both of these diagnoses, if all other treatment fails (which they likely will since he has not run for so long, it is unlikely that "rest" is going to be a treatment).  The good news is that he has, finally, obtained a diagnosis.  The bad news is, it is a freaky problem and the "fix" is not easy to determine.  It would be so awesome if we could do some thing (like surgery) and then rehab and then have him up and running again in a few months.  I have been really hard to deal with for the last month because I have been depressed about not running for a month ... Dean has been a rock even through his nearly 2 years of frustration.  

I hope you are all recovering well, running happily and enjoying your fall weather!

36:13 + 55 mins on the elliptical (1:30 of exercise total -- it was all the time I could manage).

Busy day ...

Have a good day bloggers!

1 hour pool running (with very cool waterproof MP3 player case) + 1 hour water aerobics.

This made me quite hungry.  The women of the water aerobics class are growing on me.  Most of them are somewhere in their 60s, maybe 70s.  They travel, and are mostly from the east coast (at least 3 of the 6 that were there today were from New York City.  One of them was a journalist for the New York Times.  She said, "McCain was in town this week.  I ran into him in Starbucks and I shocked him, he said, 'Jan?' and I said, 'hello John'" ... ha ha ha ... very cool.  Another woman is going to send me a copy of her electronic journal from her trip to Brisbane last year, we are going in February and she knows some great places to see and eat ...

I am in a much better mood today than I have been most of the week, maybe it is 2 days in a row of more than an hours worth of exercise ;-).

Happy Friday Bloggers!

Good luck Auntieem, April, and MichelleL on your marathons this weekend!!

I think it was longer than 4 miles -- maybe even 4.5 (big difference ;-)).  Then I came home and worked and later in the afternoon went down the to Y and did ~65` of water running and abs.

I wore my new compression sleeves today, really helped keep the swelling down, since I did not really walk around much, I can't tell if it helped the pain or not.  

So very happy for MichelleL!!  2:47:09 on a non-aided course bodes very well for her upcoming year and bid for an OTQ!

Looking forward to hearing about Auntieem and April's race tomorrow.

Have a wonderful evening.