Chug-along-chica!

First 3 miles in a row since April 7th.  On treadmill, 5.3 mph most of the time.  Surprisingly, I felt fine.  I actually feel a little bit better now than I did before I ran.  I've felt blah all day because I couldn't drag my sorry self to bed until WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY too late last night.  

According to my fancy-schmancy bathroom scale, my bone density has increased since I started running.  Cool!

One item of concern: the bottoms of my feet have been a little tender or sore or something first thing in the morning.  Is this a precursor to an injury?  Any tips?

One mile this morning . . . and it was like trudging through molasses.  I was a little bit sore when I started.  It was less than 8 hours from last night's run.

Then a perky little mile this evening.  5.3-8 mph.  It was so much easier tonight.  Why are all the races in the morning?  This is discrimination against night owls!  How can I protest--I know, I'll boycott the next olympics...that'll teach 'em. 

3 miles on treadmill.

I lost 2 lbs. this week.  This is faster than normal, but I'm sure that it will average out to about 1/2 to 1 lb. a week over the next couple of months.  First week I think I just loose some water and such.  I've gone to WW after having each of my boys.  It always works, it just takes a little time.

I can't sleep!  James has been in Boston this week for business.  THANK GOODNESS he comes home tomorrow.

Yea!  James finally came home!!!  Unfortunately he is sicker than 2 pigs. 

2 Miles on the treadmill.  I watched my 2 favorite parts of High School Musical the whole time.   It's these two songs:  "The Start of Something New" and "Breaking Free".  Both of them are so appropriate for how I feel about running right now.  You should all watch High School Musical.  The first time you see it you think "Hmmm.  That was cute. Very clean.  Good Choreography."  The second time you see it, you think "Wow.  This makes me want to sing."  The third time you watch it you think "I'VE GOT TO GET THE SOUNDTRACK!!!!  I NEED THE KARAOKE VERSION SO I CAN SHOUT THE SONGS AT THE TOP OF MY LUNGS!"  The only bad thing about it is that it is so popular.  I hate things that EVERYBODY likes, in general.

Don't bother leaving a comment that High School Musical is corny because you are WRONG!  If you think that, it's only because you haven't watched it enough times yet.  Either that or you are tone-deaf.  It happens.

3 miles outside.  I was hoping to just go out and not look at the Garmin and see what my pace naturally was, but I did peek a little.  I was really hoping for even split.

1st mile 10:51

2nd mile 10:41

3rd mile 10:55

I am overjoyed to see that I finally taught the 11:00 mile girl who was the boss, albeit she is quite a wimp, and is actually on crutches, I hear.  I tried to focus on my arms this run.  I have a tendency to leave my arms in place and twist my body to balance my gait, which probably constricts the lungs.  So tonight I tried really hard to only let them travel parallel to each other--i.e. not cross my body at all.  I think that this increased my stride a little.  Overall I am really happy with this run.  I did feel a little queasy at the start of the 3rd mile.  I've identified that pizza is the worst possible food to eat right before running. 

The most notable thing that happened on my run was that a duck flew out from a foot away and crossed right in front of me--almost collided with me.  I was so alarmed that for several seconds I found it unnecessary to breathe.  Bad duck!  On my Garmin report there was a huge spike on the pace line there. 

I was sore from yesterday's run and also have a sore throat.  Please please please do not let me get whatever plague it is that has DH James in its grip.  I skipped my run and feel partly wise and partly lame.  I missed my weekly goal of 15 miles by 2.  13 miles in a week is a new PR for training, though, so that's good.