catherine's running efforts

I haven't FRBed since we left on our vacation, so I'll try to catch up. 

In the winter, running in warm California is a million times better than running in Utah. And I love running around the Rose Bowl. It's almost exactly a 5k, there are potties that don't stink too much, and there are lots of people to watch and weave through. A couple of days I took Elliott and Tigger in the stroller, and they liked it too. It's so much easier to run every day when it's nice outside. And when there are grandparents to watch Elliott.

Our drive back home took about 5 hours longer than it should have because of all of the people going to Vegas for New Year's Eve. That part sucked a lot.

And tonight I had my free fitness assessment at the gym. The trainer spent about 30 minutes building to the big finale which turned out to be that if I do weight training 3 times a week I'll be 2.2 pounds heavier in 6 months (not worth it), and then he led me through some exercises that trashed my quads. I didn't think I'd feel like running after that, but Maid in Manhattan was on in the cardio cinema and I figured it'd be good to shake out my muscles. I'll probably be pretty sore tomorrow, though.

Happy New Year!

Another 3 miles on the treadmill at the gym, this time to Biggest Loser and some show on E making fun of Biggest Loser. Both motivated me to complete my run. 

What *didn't* motivate me was the incredible soreness in my legs from yesterday. It's like my muscles are on fire. After the little training session I was thinking to myself, "Self, maybe it wouldn't be such a bad thing to do some weight training and stuff." But today I remembered why I'm okay with no muscles. I really hate being sore. 

Kind of a doubles day - 4.5 miles in the morning(ish), and 1.5 in the evening. Robin Hood was in the cardio cinema and I could only take it for about 2 minutes. I hate movies that are heavy on woods, bows and arrows, or elves. That's why I've never made it through any of the Lord of the Rings movies. But then I watched that Scouted or whatever show and was happy. 

My new favorite quote: "And I got to wear these amazing Christopher Dior sunglasses. But you probably don't know who that is." 

Elliott is 7 months old today! And we think we see her first tooth. 

On Fridays this semester Eric works in Salt Lake, so he takes Elliott to stay with my mom so that I can have the whole day to work. I'm thinking that I'll be most productive if I just go to my office on campus all day, but then I have to figure out what to do about pumping. 

I ran with music for the first part of my run and wanted to match the beat of a song so ended up doing .4 at 6:13. Later I did another .1 to make it an even half mile at 6:13, but other than that it was a pretty boring 3 miles. I can't even remember what was on TV. But I'm on track toward my second 20-mile week in over a year. Eh.