Moving Forward

Rest Day (2)

I finally slept a bit better last night. Saturday night was miserable... hips hurt alot, and rolling over in bed always woke me up. Last night was just some weird dreams... was able to sleep better, rolling over didn't hurt.

I'm feeling pretty good, I might go to the gym with my husband after work just to do some light upper body weights... core work and stretching. Will see after work how I feel.

Tomorrow I'm off work.. I have to babysit my four month old grandson!! Yepppyy. I'm hoping to do my run in the morning before I have to drive to SLC.

Marathon Update*

So I didn't tell all of you about this young kid at my work that ran the marathon, nice kids but pretty cocky. Well when I got down to about 2 blocks from the finished one of our other co-workers seen me... he was walking back to run in his wife. He yelled to me "Josh is right there go get him" I seem him and could tell he was hurting. I caught up to him, and instead of just chicking him, ask him are you OK... He looked at me, and the realization came to his face of who I was... he took off like his feet were on fire... beat me to the finish... I was so mad at myself for not just running past. But today I realized that by the official times I beat him by 30 seconds.... I'm super happy!!!

Just have a quick minute while my grandson is taking a nap. Ran a bit longer then I probably should have. Just around and around the block by my house.

My legs were pretty heavy, which was to be expected. But the thing that probably bugged me the most isthe chaffing I have undermy arms.

Well got to go hope all of you are having a wonderful Tuesday.

Rest Day... no running

I will go to the gym after work and just work some upper body and core work. Feeling pretty good. Today has been so nice, rained just a bit so it's cooled off nicely, really wanted to run.

Average pace 9:50

So legs felt heavy at the start but as the run progressed they felt better. Not too bad, in fact it felt good to run, I have been missing it on my days off. I really need to work on getting my diet back in shape, I think I have let it go on vacation long enough. Time to start keeping it on track again!

Probably the worst thing is still the chaffing especially under my left arm. Hopefully this will get better soon.

So a few observations from my rest day yesterday. I went to the gym and just did a bit of upper body weights and then abs. But I'm a horrible people watcher. I don't know if this is because I sculpt, but even before that I drew faces... so I just love looking at different faces. Well yesterday I had a missed opportunity that I will probably never get back. I wish I had a camera with me at all times now. Any way there was a girl working out that was probably has one of the most beautiful faces I have seen in person. I know that beauty is relative, and I for one don't usually like what is considered typical beauty. I tend to like interesting faces and ethnic faces. I think she was either pacific islander or native american. I tend to think pacific islander, because of the hair.. long and wavy vs. straight. I wish I could have gotten some mug shots of her for my sculpting. Not that I am talented enough to do a portrait sculpt, but I love having referance pictures to sculpt from. She also was not plasitc, if you get my drift. As I was working out I could not belive how many women have been augmented. It is an epidemic LOL.

Another rest day.

So today was a shut down day at my work so I will have a very long weekend :) I'm hoping to get the rest of the sculpting done on my latest doll that my brother-in-law is having made for is wife. My hubby is having a prcedure on his back (two ruptured discs) so please keep him in you thoughts and prayers that it is sucessfull and everything will be good. They are doing some sort of injections. Don't really know all the details.

In other news... youngest son is finally part of the working class!!! Can I hear a big AMEN!! I love him so much but at 19 he really needed a reality check, and there is nothing like a little hard labor at minimun wage for them to realise how the world is. It's funny how when they have earned the money they are so much more resonsible in how they spend it. He is just working part time at a local grocery store in the bakery. So, hopefully he will have tuition saved when he startes back to school this fall!!

So I will be running Saturday, and Sunday... first back to back days since the marathon! I hope you all have a wonderful Memorial weekend!!

My girlfriend called last night and wanted to run trails today... I was a bit worried that I would not be able to do them, but we took it pretty slow and it was not as bad as I thought it would. We ran the shoreline trail above Ogden and it was beautiful!! Lots of hikers, runners and bikers! What a great day!