cheryl

When I got up this morning, I felt like I had been hit by a truck. I  don't remember being that tired in a long time.  And the funny thing is, I did basically nothing yesterday, it was a day of rest.  Anyway, I did not make it out for an early run, so I was kind of stuck because my 9 year old is home and I don't like leaving him.  But we did have fun doing Wii Fit together, we ran a couple of races, then I did the stationary bike for about 20 minutes.  Finally, about 5:30, I made it to the Rec Center.  I was expecting it to be fairly quiet because I didn't think people really worked out at what I consider almost dinner time, but it was packed!  Hard to run the pace I wanted on the track because there were so many people.  I don't think anyone there has heard of the rule of leaving the inside lane open for the runners--lots of walkers in the inside lane.  I made 3 miles anyway, with my times being 8:31, 8:07, and 7:58.  I then did 10 minutes on the stair stepper.  So what seemed like it wasn't going to be a great working out day ended up being ok.

It's been a while since I've "had" to get up early, so this morning was a bit of a struggle.  That is one good thing/bad thing about being sometimes in charge of the group:  you have to go whether you want to or not.  I always want to, but you know what they say, the spirit is willing, the body is sometimes weak.

The news said it was supposed to snow this morning.  So I dreamed that it was bright and sunny for our group, and we all said the weathermen really got it wrong this time.  Then when I got up, I remembered about the snow, so I looked out halfway hoping a blizzard was going on, but no such luck.  So off to the group I went.  Of course, once I got there and got going, I really enjoyed being back with everyone.  We ran around the Tithing Hill area.  I wanted to do a version of what I think the Kenyans do for a warm-up, that is starting really slowly then speeding up gradually as you go along.  However, I couldn't see my watch to tell everyone when it was time to speed up, so we just basically ran whatever for the warm-up, and if you were like me, it was basically the same pace the entire way.  I'll have to try that again when I can actually see what I'm doing.  Anyway, we ran some hill sprints, 30 seconds and 1 minutes, then did a 10 minute tempo run out to the trail and back.  One good thing, I wasn't coughing and didn't feel sick after, so who knows what the old thyroid is doing.  When it's really out of whack, I feel quite sick after running.  None of that today, so that's a good thing.  And the snow was so nice, it waited until we were about done before it started.  We were meant to do this workout today.  Later, I went to the Rec Center with the plan of doing about 10 minutes on the stair master, and I made it to 17 minutes.  Don't ask me why I didn't just continue on and make it an even 20 minutes, let's just say I'd had enough fun for one day.  Thanks everyone for coming to the group and making it a lot of fun.

Another day of waking up tired, another day of having to really work on getting out and getting the run in.  I tell myself missing a day here and there doesn't matter, but then I worry if I miss one it will turn to two and then who knows what.  Even after many years of running and working out, I still have a fear that I'm going to quit one day and do absolutely nothing.  Probably because in my previous lives, that's what I did--I would run for a few weeks, then quit, run for a few months, then quit.  So I've got to get out every day, or else I might become a quitter again.

Anyway, enough of that.  I made it to the Rec Center about 3:00 and ran for 30 minutes, easy run, didn't keep track of splits or anything, just tried to keep things easy.  Then I did 13 minutes on the stair climber.  Fun as always.

What can I say, it was a tough running day for me.  I did enjoy being with the group and talking  with different people.  That's the one positive from today.  My second 5K was 29 something, I don't think I've ever been that slow on that route.  Oh well, we'll see if things get better in the weeks to come. 

Today was a lazy day, didn't do a whole lot of anything.  Did manage about 35 minutes on the stationary bike, that's it!!

I went to the Rec Center and ran for 30 minutes on the track, then I did about 13 minutes on the stair master, then I ran some laps on the track, trying to see how fast I could go.  The fastest I managed was 36 seconds; my previous fastest had been 38.  I then ran several more laps, averaging around 39 to 41 seconds.  It was fun.