Stronger, Tougher, Faster, Smaller

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?