Patience, the NEW Endurance Sport!

11:33 ave  HOT outside.  I'll write more why I have not been running lately.

I mentioned last tuesday that I was having pretty good chest pain.  Anyhoots, early Thursday morning, about 1am, I woke up with the severe chest pain again.  By 4:30am, I was in a tremendous amount of pain.  David took me to the ER.  The rushed me back and hooked me up to all of the machines.  Fortunately, the pain kept up for all of the tests.  They all came back negative for heat attack. Yipee :)  Once they told me my heart was fine, I begged them to let me go.  The Doc told me that I have costochondritis.  Basically it is an inflammation of the joints in my ribs attaching to my sternum.   After seeing a few other doc's, it looks like there is a problem in my spine, most likely arthritis.  Finally, today I am feeling all back to normal :)  I have been on anti-inflammatory and strict rest.  Since I felt so good today, I tried out the running.  If all goes well tonight, I'll run in the morning.

57:00/11:24

Nice slow run :)  My back & chest tweaked a bit, but not too bad.  Anna massaged my back right after my run and said that it was much looser today :)  I did 45 minutes of yoga last night, and as always, I am NEVER going to get lax on my yoga again!!! ;D

suckiest run EVER!  AND, my browser shut down mid blogging and I lost all of my GREAT whiny details :p  I'll see if I can squeeze a bit more wine out of me ;D

This was supposed to be a 7 mile run with a 5 mile tempo in the middle.  Well, when the warm up was bad, I should have guessed that this was not going to fly.  Mile one of the tempo, 10:05, not what I wanted, but all that there was in my tanks.  Mile 2, 10:01, better, maybe this would be ok.  Maybe I can do this tempo and the world will be right :)  Did I mention the rain???  Light rain and breezy.  Mile three, I am struggling to get this mile to a 10.  Stupid shoe comes untied.  I can't get the pace back.  At the mid way, .5 of mile three, we turn around to come back, STRAIGHT INTO A STIFF HEAD WIND!  It just plain knocks the guts out of me.  I can't run a 10 to save my life, let alone with this bugger of a head wind.  The worst part was that I couldn't run it even with a stiff tail wind, that had to have been there!  So this really does a number on my head.  I actually yell out, "You've got to be kidding me!!!"  The farmers, if they were DUMB enough to be out in this weather, would have called the mental hospital!  I am ticked.  Well, we head east now, the wind is at our side.  They said the storm/winds would be coming from the South.  Not out there.  North wind :p  So nearly to mile 4 I hit a wall that was the size of Texas.  I have hit the wall only a few time.  this was more like a semi.  I had to walk.  It was like someone just popped my running balloon and I was a deflated soggy piece of rubber on the road.  I told Kim to go, but she wouldn't. We walked/jogged home, all soggy and down trodden.  Kim didn't mind too much, becasue she had more miles to go for the day.  I am still ticked about this run and want some revenge.  I'll get it on Saturday.  Brady wants me to do at least 10.  I'll do them at 10:30 to practice for the 1/2 next weekend.

Here is what the problem was....I think.  I woke up at 7, shouted at my family to CLEAN THE HOUSE!  We did for 2 hours until Kim came for me at 9.  I forgot to eat breakfast :(  I always eat 2 hours before a tempo.  I always drink.  I did nothing.  I had a little water at 7 and then cleaned and vacuumed my house like a mad woman.  I did not realize this until about mile 2.   So I think my lesson is learned.  I could have gu'd if it had dawned on me that I did not eat at all.

I was going to modify my running to make sure I was doing ok and not get more chest pain for the 1/2, but Brady wants me to train like normal to see if I flare up again.  We'll see :)

11:09 ave. Slow run.  I threw in 7 strides.  They felt good.  I was pretty pooped when I was finished with the run.  I was only going to do 5, then decided to do six.  When I was almost home, I threw one more in for fun.  My first two miles were pretty slow, with mile #3 being it's regular lousy pace.

I am going to try to get in more whole grains.  I kinda skip them a lot :(

Short mystery time and length run :)  I know it was 3.5 for sure, but I had to run a catalog to my daughters work and I am not sure how much it added.  The run felt great.  There was a bit of IT complaints.  Not sure what is up with that.  I wanted to go longer, but since it was so late in the afternoon, and we are doing 10 in the AM, I thought I should just be moderate :)

I ate a good carb/protein balanced dinner.  I am excited for tomorrows final test run before the 1/2 next saturday.

2:06/11:43

This did not feel very good.  I was tired for the whole thing :(  I'm glad that I was with KimR.  She has to do 20 today.  I'm glad that I am not her.  The good news that there was no sign of IT issues :)  I'm glad to be done :)

3 miles walk/jogging with David to try to find a nice stretch for a Walk-It Challenge June 5th