Life is to be enjoyed, not just endured

Ran as much as I could while my daughter warmed up for her volleyball tournament.

Slow and easy miles....I keep trying to tell myself this is okay.

The last week has been rough.  I woke up last Tuesday and felt like I had been hit by a bus.  My hips were extremely fatigued and sore and I was pretty sure I was getting sick....not sick but the aching has continued.  Hips and sacral area are so tired and sore and my calves are starting to feel the same way.   I am not sure what is going on other than not enough hours in the day to get everything done. 

The plan is for lots of easy miles, trying to eat better and hopefully feeling better. 

6 miles on the hotel treadmill at 4:00 am.   I am in SF for work and have an early flight.  Completely shocked at how busy the fitness center was for the hour I was running.   They have just remodeled and it is by far the nicest hotel treadmill I have used.  We just need to teach them about air conditioning.

Avg Pace: 9:00 

It is freezing here in Texas and I have become a total wimp. Today's temp was 25 degrees and with a wind chill it felt like 13 - according to the news. I will claim it felt colder. I chose to avoid the 20 mph winds and headed to the YMCA. 9 miles on the treadmill.....3 mile warm up, 3 miles of 1 min on/1 min off - On was at 7:00 min pace and off was at 9:15 min pace, and then a 3 mile cool down.   A Zumba class was starting right as I was finishing, so I attempted.... my second attempt - previous was a year ago.   It is fun, but I have no rhythm, I will probably go back though because I can take my girls.   Too bad I couldn't stay for body pump, but Jay is out of town and there is too much to do.   

Spent the afternoon evening at volleyball and then dinner at Costa Vida and a Chick FilA shake.  It was delicious but I will pay for it later.   There is only one Costa Vida in Texas and it is about 45 min away, but we were somewhat close with volleyball and I will use any excuse I can to go eat there.  

Another yucky winter day in FW.   2.2 miles on the treadmill... Spin class...2  more treadmill miles.

 I am trying to introduce some cross training to my life and today was a first attempt at spin.  It was hard, but not as bad as I thought and I do need to adjust my bike differently next time.   I could feel it in my legs right from the warm up and I have no idea how much resistance you should really have, but I sweated up a storm, breathed hard and had jello-y legs afterwards.  The first .5 on the treadmill after spin was rough but got going and was sad to have to go get kids ready for school.

9 easy miles....1.75 to meet Saskia, 6 with her and the rest on the way home....

I had originally not planned on running today because I have an early flight, but I was awake at 3:00 am and not able to go back to sleep.  Ended up getting up and running.  6 miles... 2 mile warm up, 2 miles of fartleks with the telephone poles and 2 mile cool down. Took the on's at a pretty moderate pace, nothing too exciting... Avg pace 8:36

It is a down pour today and not letting up.....So back at the YMCA.   I had put off running and was extremely grouchy and finally went after being bugged by my daughter to take her to the Y.   My husband and son ended up tagging along which was great, because then I didn't have to worry as much about her.   

1% incline

3.5 mile warm up

5.5 miles sub 8:00 min pace

2.5 mile cool down - ended up sprinting the last 3 min which was harder than it should have been.

I feel pretty good about this work out, not too sure how it would translate to the road, but I didn't die or really even come close (except the sprint) which is good.   It all comes down to getting out of my 8:30 -9:00 min pace comfort zone... I need some faster gals to run with ......

New shoes today, back to the Mizuno wave riders.  I haven't worn these for about 2 years and wanted to go back.   No hip issues today but my plantars are on fire..lots of stretching, and rolling.

am:  6 easy miles with Erica and Adrianne.  I like running with the ladies but it is almost too easy and light and I need to come up with some alternatives.

pm:  4 miles on the hotel treadmill with an avg pace of 9 min/mile while I watched the end of the Villanova/UConn game.   I love this time of year!  Knees felt tired and the effort was harder than I would have liked.   We will see what tomorrow brings.

Very rough travel week.  Syracuse, Home for 3 hours for a meeting, OKC and then rushed back home for more meetings.   I had two people tell me I sound tired on the phone....not a good sign, especially since I do not talk to one of them very often.  

Went  to yoga tonight at the Y with my 11 year old.  It was just what I needed.  Felt great and energized when I left.  Too bad they only have evening yoga classes on T/TH.

1 mile to meet the ladies

4x1 mile repeats at an easy pace with a good uphill portion

1 mile home

It is extremely windy today but got it done.   The avg pace ended up being 9:14 (always slow on MWF if the other show up) but this was faster than I expected.  

am:  8 miles while I had sometime before volleyball.  I had to run in an industrial area that was probably not the best place to run, but got it done.    It had a lot of rolling hills which always makes me feel like it counts more than a flat run.   The last mile was looping on a street doing fartleks and the legs were tired

avg pace: 8:15

pm:  5 "easy" miles with Saskia but the ended up being faster than I wanted

avg pace: 9:01

Met Saskia and Adrianne for the hilly Dutch Branch/Bryant Irvin route.  I love this brutal run  - but it is hard.  There was no wind today, which helped.   I had a pit stop at the 7-11 but other than that very uneventful.  Much slower than I would have liked, but we will get after it tomorrow.

Registered for El Scorcho this morning and I cannot decide if I am excited or crazy.