Here we go again~

Met up with the Heidi's for our traditional 5 mile square.  I have decided that although this course is pretty much the same thing we do each time we run, I am totally fine with that.  I have expressed my love of this little course because not only is it the perfect distance of 5 miles, but it feels more like 3 miles.  So, I think we plan to pretty much just keep running this course during the week days and then try to shake things up on the weekends :).  Not to mention that I am falling in love with strength training which I intend to start doing more regularly as well.  I have to make the most of this week because Heidi W is leaving us Saturday for a week long cruise, LUCKY DUCK!!  So, we hope to have a full week before she leaves and hope even more that we can all keep it up the week she is gone.  It was a great morning!! Happy Monday everyone~

I am not sure on my avg pace because my garmin ran out of batteries as I walked out the door to run, Darn it!!  But pace felt comfortable. 

Met with Heidi this morning for a session of strength training.  Have I mentioned that I am really starting to enjoy strength training?? :). I can not decide if it is because of the burn I feel while doing the workout, the sore muscles after the work out, the visit time I have with Heidi, the fact that I don't have to leave my house, the way it gets my day started off just right, or the fact that I don't have to go out in 20 degree temps, hmmmmm, I THINK IT'S ALL OF THE ABOVE!!!!  So, yes, I enjoy it and always enjoy time to work out with fun, happy, helpful people!  It was a great morning. 

So, what started as a small disaster, ended in a very nice morning.  If you have the time, I will tell you the story, it goes like this:

I was supposed to meet Michelle, Ali (and Mac ended up coming along too) to go running at 5:00.  My eyes popped open only to see the alarm clock beeming 5:20, CRAP, I SLEPT IN!! So, I said to Ty "honey, you didn't wake me up". Yes, the alarm clock is on his side of the bed, so this is his responsibility :).  He is sure that he did try to wake me up, but I am sure that he just dreamed this and actually didn't try waking me up.  In any event, I got out of bed and started getting ready before stopping and thinking "what am I doing, they are long gone, I have no idea where to find them", so Tyler says "why don't you just go drive around and try to find them".  Well after calculating times, I figure that by the time I leave my house, they would have already had 4-5 miles under their belt.  Not having an idea which direction to even begin, I decide that it just wasn't meant to be today and so what do I do? Climb back into bed.  Well Tyler starts giving me a hard time saying things like "Or, you can just climb back in bed and not do anything, etc etc," ha ha, so you know that just wasn't going to happen.  So, I went and got my phone and decided that I would text my dear friend Heidi to see what time she was going out.  I knew she was planning on going but just didn't know what time.  And, I figured that her phone was away from her so that she would just text me back when she woke up and saw my message.  So, I send her a text asking her if I can jump in and run with her today and just to let me know what time she was going.  Figuring it would be a while before she got up, I again, crawled back into bed only to be startled 30 seconds later when I get a text back from heidi saying they are going running at 6:30.  Well, that was a little too late for me, so I decide again that running is just not going to happen today so I should just go back to bed.  Side Note: Tyler is awake this entire time. So, not 15 minutes later, just as I was dozing back into a slumber, I am awaken by my phone vabrating under my pillow with this message from Heidi, and I quote "Okay, now I can't go back to sleep so wake up,  get dressed and meet me outside in 10-15 minutes" at which I responded "Yes, Mam".  So, I get back out of bed and go to get dressed and walk out to see Tyler is now out of bed too.  So I walk in the kitchen and poor sleep deprived Tyler is sitting at the table working on his computer, knowing that sleep was no longer an option for him today either.  Moral of my story is that I woke Heidi up and Tyler up, all because I couldn't get up.  Sorry guys.  However, we ended up going out and getting a little over 5 miles in (meeting up with Heidi C at the intended 6:30 time to join us) and as always, the visiting was fun and I was SO GLAD that i was able to get out.  Although a little crazy, it ended up being a great morning.  So, Thanks Heidi and Tyler for sacrificing your sleep in my benefit. I really do appreciate it!

Avg. Pace: 8:51 (some good hills that we ran today, good workout) :)

Met with both Heidi's this morning for our strength training workout with Erin (the gals name on the workout video).  This is a really good video and works almost every area of your body.  It is so nice to feel sore in areas that I haven't worked for years.  I am also so greatful that the Heidi's are willing to come to my house so that I can actually work out on my off days so Thanks Gals!! 

So, I met bright and early, wait, Early (not so bright) with Ali to run.  I haven't ran with her for some time so it was really nice to chat with her and catch up a little.  When we met, neither of us really knew how far we wanted to go or what route we were going to take and so we just started running and kind of made up the course as we ran.  It was really nice to get up and get "almost" 8 miles in by 6:00am.  I got home and was able to get so  much accomplished before running out the door to run the kids to school, day care and to get to work.  Ali kept running when we were done to get in her 8 miles, but she pushed me along this morning and so I was tired and ready to stop.  It was a great run though and again, fun to run with Ali, thanks Ali!!

 Avg. Pace: 8:17
 

I met with Heidi W this morning before she left for her week long cruise, lucky duck!! (no really, she totally deserves it).  We kind of got off to a rough start.  We were going to meet at 6:30 and go 7 miles but my sitter slept in so we got a late start. I was a little exhausted from a long week and Heidi had a list of "to do's" before heading off on her vacation so I don't think our heads were really in the game.  But we headed off with out game faces on.  We started running and the wind was horrible and it was cold.  We decided to just run out 2 miles and then come back so that is what we did.  So, we didn't get in what we wanted, but never the less, It was a good start to a Saturday and I think a good start to Heidi's vacation.