Stronger, Tougher, Faster, Smaller

400 m swim this morning this morning just making sure I can still swim and breathe and cover the distance I need. I will get more miles in later today, nice and slow.

Weight: -20 lbs!!! Oh yeah baby! That now constitutes my 10% loss. The scale is telling me I've lost 6%body fat, not too shabby either. Now I just got to keep this up :)

3 miles pushing the kids in the heat yuck, but I got it done baby!

This was a great accomplishment considering my emotions this morning.  I had declared my retirement from running.  I am sick of training hard, sick of still be last in the pack, and sick of those terrible running photos were I am all thunder thighs and no chest.

I just have to think I am so close to being able to beat my 1/2 pr in two weeks.  I can't stop now.  I get mad at myself for not wanting to run. I did terrible with running while on vacation, and then I had a disappointing time during the run in the tri.  Plus my systems not right because I didn't eat right while on vacation either but I have done my shopping and it WILL go back to normal.

 Okay enough of the whining it must stop and I will go out and run in the morning tomorrow, I think wed/thur will be evening because I am going to start prepping my classroom for the coming school year.

My first 1/2 mile was 6min then second 5, then there was a stoplight and a little bit of shopping and then about 11:30 for the last mile.  The inbetween stuff I'm not so sure on, but it was distance and I know if I keep it up and I will start feeling better everyday.

Okay, this is a catch all for the last week. Sorry to leave you all hanging and I do feel loved not stalked and am happy to have you all watching out for me.  I did the crest trail with Leslie on Saturday, owh!  I couldn't walk normal until yesterday.  Dang that was hard.  We have had a ton of fun, swimming, arcades, phantom on the opera, tournament of the kings, buffets, m&m world.  All the freebie stuff, the aquarium.  too many buffetts......oh and the venetian gave us eighty bucks of credits to spend in the slots so we played their eighty and walked away with ninety cash of our"winnings"  which we got to keep.  Now that's what I call gambling.  Can't bear to put my own money in the things :)  thank you all for caring.  I have been a slacker, sort of, walking for 6-10 hours a day carrying kids is not easy but I didn't get official "runs" in.  But I did do some pool running, much cooler, tougher cardio man.

Breaking dawn was great, and I loved it.  We will be driving all day tomorrow and I will blog next time after I do my little tri on saturday.  Love you all :)

Oh and Leslie, remember how I told you that if anybody was hurt it would be my husband?  Well we went to the er after the run he bruised his hand pretty bad and we thought it was broke, but just some bone bruising, lots of pain, no cast, just loritab:)

400 m swim 9 minutes

14 mile bike 56 minutes, goal was just under one hour.

3.2 miles, my cardio had been going for so long that I was nauseous to start the run and my shins were hurting. It took me 38 minutes. Yuck, I was so dissappointed.  I am not sure where I finished because they were so slow with results and I know that they do not remove the top finishers out of the prospective age groups.  Ugh that irritates me, probably because the female winner was in my group.  Does she really need the trophy and the ribbon?  I bet she doesn't even care.  I know a lot of people aren't impressed by the trinkets anymore and that is fine with me.

 I don't think I could have done any better today but still feel like it was lacking.  My stomach was bugging me and I wasn't feeling so hot, and what happens in vegas doesn't stay there.  At least the extra calories didn't.  I have a little work to do, get 'em off fast and they aren't as hard to get off later right? 

I posted the blog on the wrong monday, it is sitting on the 4th but it was really today.  So if you want to check out my whining and bad day it's there :)

3 miles in 34 minutes, not too bad.  I really need to get a longer run tomorrow evening.  Let's see I'm mentally feeling better, there is no more vegas weight so it's just focusing on hobblecreek now.

I will do another 1.5 pushing kids to park in the afternoon. 

Okay, I know I have been a slacker and not a good blogging friend. But I am trying to be better, I have to hurry I need to get to my classroom.

.5 mile jog until my watch started

1.0 in 11:06 then second mile in 9:33 how's that for smokin'? Then .38 slow back to house. talk to you all later :)

Okay, I got in 18+ flights of stairs today hauling all my books to my classroom on the third floor. And guess what? I have a skeleton in my closet!!! A real, life, from a human skeleton. It's got to be really old but it is in really good shape. Not that I need one in my room but hey, it's really cool.

Oh side note, anybody want to pick up my packet for me? I can't make it down in time for Friday pickup and I am camping at the start line, so I don't want to drive to the finish to pick up my packet to drive back to the start.  I would get it from on Friday night so you wouldn't have to worry......please? 

Started at a 12:30 pace to warm up and then continued to knock it up about every .5 miles. (Treadmill, I let chris have the outside today since I got it yesterday) Finished with under a 10m/m pace but it wasn't for very long. 

Total time 46:22

My goal for hobble creek this weekend is 2:2something.  I did 2:50 in Ogden and I know I am going to smash that time.

Okay I now have 28 minutes to get ready for school, I got to move it move it, I got to move it move it I like to MOVE IT!!!

 OH, just repeating myself, can anyone pick up my packet for me in on Friday, I would get it from you later that evening? Thanks!!!
 

Wow what a beautiful day.  I had a great time and I got to meet Marion, Kim, Josee, Kelly.  Lots of shade, it wasn't hot, I felt great.  Goal was 2:2?.  So I did it.

mile 1 10:40

mile 2 10:33

mile 3 10:25

mile 4 10:20

mile 5 10:56 I was loosing satellite reception in the canyon during this mile and there is about .10 mile extra in this time.

mile 6  11:14 still loosing satellite here and this is about another .10 extra.

mile 7 14:28 line for the potty, and I didn't want to go in the woods because I knew I wouldn't be able to squat and I just needed to sit down to take care of business because I didn't know how long it would take.

mile 8 10:40

mile 9 11:06

mile 10 11:40 there were some extra hills plus I was slow at the water stop.

 mile 11 11:13 now this is just fatigue slowness but not too bad.

mile 12 11:29

mile 13(.92) Remember I lost reception and my mileage is shorter that it really was. 11:15

I couldn't see the seconds on my watch, I need to changed that, because you know I would have worked it to get the 2:24, especially since I was sooooooo close.  I feel great I loved it.

Oooh I like the new colors on the calendar!!  Okay, school has started and I feel like I live in a snowglobe and the somebody not very nice just shook it very very hard.  I have gone from being a stay at home mom to working 50+ hrs a week and I am on my feet for most of it.

I had a babysitter ready today was up before 5a to get a nice long run in but then the weirdest thing happened.  No not weird, awful! Advisory don't ready if you don't want to know....but maybe somebody has an idea.  I went potty(bm) and immediately afterwards I was having terrible cramp, pain, couldn't hardly move, couldn't sit down.  I cried and screamed for about two hours before I finally went back to bed, found a comfortable position and now another 4hrs later I still have residual pain, more of a discomfort but not fun.