making a comeback!

So the hubby and I started out the new year with a 8 mile run together. It wasn't our best as we were headed into a head wind all the way and came home feeling like popcicles. On the positive side, it wasn't my fastest run or longest but I've had my shower and thawed out and feel pretty good so I feel like I am feeling pretty good coming off my month of most miles ever (Dec.132) I never would have thought that would have been possible in Dec. as crazy as it was! I am going to do some thinking about my running goals for the year but I guess I will start it out with a bang and register a little later for the Painters half!

So I guess that I get a goose egg for the day! I was up till like 2 this morning and when the kids left I took a nap. I was going to to get out this morning but decided that my body needed sleep more than a run. Then I had to go to Ephraim to move my daughter into her aparment. Once she is there permanently (Sat.) the sleep department of my life will improve a bunch! I know that I still have time to get a run in to day, but I still feel like I'm completely dead from the last couple of days so I'm going to chalk it up to a day off and get going tomorrow!!! Hopefully I can get my scheduled miles in throughout the week still with the lack of them today!

Got the run in early this morning. I put on every warm thing I had to head out and thought I might freeze to death but when I stepped out of the garage it was actually quite warm and I was pleasantly surprised! Ran with the hubby this morning and it felt quite good. Contrary to popular belief, I think the day off yesterday did the body good. Legs felt nice and fresh today. My hubby ditched out early this morning to get ready for work and I haven't been wearing my ipod when we run together and I was surprised how enjoyable the run was without the music and doing the last couple of miles alone. It was a nice peaceful morning and even my huffing and puffing wasn't too bad today. May even take another nap today, I logged 7 hours for sleep, but that was time in bed, just not sleeping well the last two nights. Maybe it was too many night shifts in a row that has the clock all messed up but I feel like I was up every hour on the hour last night! One more thought....My husband is having pain on the outside of his foot, along the edge. Anyone have any thoughts on that. It is really bothering him after the 8 miles run the other day. I need to get him feeling better, was just starting to like having him along (HE,HE) JK!! Thought that I have had almost all running pains and problems there is to have, but no experience here....thankfully!

First off slept much better last night and woke up feeling rested!!! I wanted to do a 12 mile run today or tomorrow, and when I took my daughter to school today it was almost 40 degrees so I thought that I would take advantage of the warmth and do the long run today. I feel a little bad because I ended up wimping out a bit.... I know I could have pushed through to 12 but I didn't. First of all I ran in new shoes today and they are probably not the best shoes but I couldn't beat the price and second about 4 miles into the run wind became a factor. As the run went on it continued to get harder as I got tireder. The whole run felt hard from about 5 miles on. I hope that is was just an off day as other long runs have felt better. Now I'm wondering how to continue to prepare for Painters? I am still looking at it as a training/see what happens run, but I wonder if I should do some more long runs before it or just start to level off and work down? Any advice would be greatly appreciated!! TGIF :)

Well it's blowing and raining and just plain ugly out, so I knew that I was doomed to the dreadmill.... uggg! I was going to keep it light today maybe not 2 miles light, but I always go EXTRA light when I'm running on the treadmill. After the torture of that I did some leg work with some squats, lunges and a some abs. to make up for the wimpy run. Legs feel pretty good today after the long run yesterday, they were pretty tired last night, more so than usual. I think that is because of the new shoes just not as supportive as my others, but overall no complaints. Great sleep last night couldn't have hurt either!!! Happy weekend!

For my own info. to plan Next week I'm planning on doing a few 6 and then my regular 5's with a long run on Friday or Sat. the week of Painters probably 6,5,4,3,2 and then the half on Sat. unless anyone has any other suggestions that would be more beneficial for me I'll try to stick to something close to that!

Got it done, that was questionable earlier after working last night and having the "Callzee" home sick yesterday and today. (Next I'm going to see if she has strep? ) First half of the run felt hard, second half felt really good. Funny how that is...first half more uphill, second half more down hill! At least I end on a good note and it keeps me coming back for more. Was pleasantly surprised when I finally made it out to run the sun was out and the ice skating rink that I came home from work on and took my daughter to school on was mostly melted and the roads were only wet. Although it was cold out the sun shining made it feel pretty nice. So bright out that I had to weat sunglasses...so overall if you have to have winter this is still a great running day! Sunday my legs were so sore from the leg exercises that I thought that running would be too painful to bear, after a day off I have recovered pretty well so I'm glad for that, hope to do that a few times a week, I hope I can keep it up but if seems that even with the best intentions that I seem to let that slide!! UhGG!!

Thought that it would be a little on the colder side when I headed out, but about .5 into the run was shedding a layer. Love it when it's warmer than expected, that's always a pleasant surprise!! I never can tell so I always dress for the worst. By the end I could have peeled another layer off but was close to being done so just finished it off. Legs felt pretty good once they got going and would have liked to have added another mile but I got off later than I thought because of the moaning sick kid at home, and had to be home to pick up my other daughter from school. I don't know if the route that I took today was a little easier or if my attempt at some strides was succesfull, as I'm not sure of the correct way to do them, but my average pace was 9:33 and I have been averaging around 9:45ish so maybe it worked! Well off to get ready for work, I'll catch up on all the daily bloggie news in the peacefull quiet hours of the night at work!

Didn't much feel like going out today but considered the alternative (dreadmill) and got dressed to go out. It was around 30 degrees and lightly snowing throughout the run. I got warm fast and again peeled off an extra layer. Felt pretty slugish, I think that the night shift, sick kid sleeping with me in the day stuff is catching up, so I decided to relax and take it slow. It was really quite a pleasant run in that kids were out playing in the snow all over and with the light snow fall and snow on the ground it was really pretty out. Most of the streets had melted off pretty well, but at times I was still in the "splash zone"! Most of the time not too bad though! I actually was excitted to get home and finish off the driveway that my husband did not get to before he went to work, so I looked at that as my reward for enduring too the end on a tired day! Watched one guy getting pulled out of an embankment that he pulled into to load his 4-wheeler and couldn't get out. After he was succesfully towed out he drove passed me slowly and gave a few obnoxious cat calls. I was too focused on the run to call back anything appropraitely intelligent, but I can think of a few good come backs now! O-well, probably not woth the extra effort!!!

Oh what a difference sleeping in the night does for the body! Wanted to get a long run in today, but my children had other plans for me this afternoon and so I had to cut it short. Maybe tomorrow or Sat. I guess. Uneventful run actually felt pretty easy as I was geared up for 11ish. Just glad I got a run in though!

According to the ipod, 12.84. I think that if I clocked it I would be around 13, so I feel better about getting in one more long run in before Painters. I started out doing a different run than I ended up doing, so it meant that I would have to do it without any gatoraide or water, but I'm pretty used to that. When I was about 4 miles into the run I changed my mind and kkept going to Monroe to my husbands school, which sounded better than looping around town a bunch, and even though it MAY? have been a little harder run I was glad that I changed the plan. Perfect day for a long run, and I love running that back road to Monroe as you just wind throught the fields and it's very peacefull. Almost everyone I waved at waved back which gave me something to do and one little old guy gave me a cute thumbs up!! Looking forward to the thought of a little taper coming up and am excitted to meet new bloggy faces and see everyone that I already know again! Should be a great time for all!!! hurried home and streched a little and took about a 10 minute hot bath and so far the legs feel pretty good! Need to do more streching throughout the day but overall not too bad!!!

My husband drug me out of bed and then shoved me out the door to run....JK, but it kinda felt that way! He had to be into work at 6:00 a.m. yesterday and didn't run and he was feeling rested and ready to go. I on the other hand didn''t feel bad considering the long run yesterday but "rested" was a little more than a term I would use. I started out telling him to be nice to me. We did the first 3 pretty well and he stayed with me. After that I either got slower or he got faster but the gap was getting bigger (maybe a little of both). When we got to the turn to go home he took the ipod to do a few more and I slipped home. All in all I still feel pretty good and am looking forward to tomorrow off from running and then will start to taper off next week.

Crazy day today!  After working the nightshift and getting the kids off I layed down but had to be to a meeting back at work around 2 and then back to work at 5:30.  Day sleep isn't the best but knowing that I have a meeting doesn't help, hard to relax and rest...blah, blah, blah!!  I went to my metting hurried home and got my run in.  As I was headed out the door I saw that the ipod was completely dead...hubby used it last, must not know how to turn it off, he just put it on hold.  So solo run, no music, no watch, just me and my thoughts.  Run felt a little hard but I'm attributing that to low sleep, hurrying to get home to go back to work and just feeling rushed even though I felt like I was hardly moving!  Mondays after night shift always tend to feel this way, need to get used to it.  The rest of the week should be a little less rushed and as I taper down should feel pretty good!  Looking forward to the taper and  seeing everone!

So far haven't made it out, not sure if I will? The wind is howling (o.k. just blowing) but it doesn't look fun out there! We have a lot going on tonight and so I'm going to try and sneek in some treadmill time! (That never goes to great so we'll see!)

I'm kinda wondering what I have gotten myself in for this weekend.... It's not that I don't think that I can do it and I'm truely not too concerned with the time. So I'm not sure why I feel a little nervous about the whole thing, but I'm starting to feel that way! I also should be eating better than ever this week and last and the one before that....but all I seem to want to put in my mouth is junk? Is this the way pre-race jitters (not that I'm racing anyone) or am I just crazy?

Two painful miles on the treadmill, found old Sawyer Brown CD, I know how some of you feel about country music, but "The race is on", "Step that Step" and some other great songs they sing were the ticket to get me through! I should put them on my ipod, they could be great outside! Now the "Race is on" to shower, make dinner, get to a youth activity and my daughters basketball game and then maybe two more miles tonight if I'm not too tired!

I think the treadmill chewed me up and spit me out today! I think that if I could run 10 miles on the treadmill, I could run a marathon! (Not that I'm going to try either anytime soon.) I feel like I should have gone more with the lacking miles yesterday, but since I was sentenced to the treadmill (again) I did the bare minimum. I hope that I'm not messing with how things will turn out this weekend by being so sloppy this week! It has just been sooo darn cold today I waited to see if it would warm up and it's still below 20 degrees, when I took my daughter to school this morning it was 8. This is where I draw the line between running and freezing and I prefer not to freeze! (yes, I am just a little whimpy, and I am totally o.k. with that!)

Well, looks like I'm gonna sit this one out too.  My daughter got sick Wed. night and I took her to Primary Childrens on Thurs.  After 8.5 hours in the ER they decided to keep us and they will be doing surgery today.  They don't know for sure what they will find till they get in there, but it could be real simple or quite complicated so I don't know how long we will be here.  By some stroke of a small miracle and we are able to leave tonight I guess I could get down there, but I doubt it and if I did, with the last two nights sleep, it doesn't say good things for the outcome!  Good Luck to everyone running and I'll be looking for those reports!!!!

Well, my daughter got through her surgery great, my huband brought me clothes,the computer a comb and a few other personal items to make my stay more comfortable. So now we are just "hang'n" here at the hospital and probably will be untill Monday. My husband did bring me my running clothes, so if things go well through the night and things aren't too stressfull in the morning (she has to have the wound/incision in her abd. packed in the a.m. that could be a little painful) I think that I might try for a little run. Can't have you all out racing your hearts out and me just sittling around! Like I have for the last 2 days and look forward to dong the next two days.

Thanks to all of you for your kind words, thoughts and prayers! So far so good! A few more days and we should be out of the tough spots, but we will have to do another surgery in a month or so. This kids a real trooper and also has had her fair share of surgeries before so she is rather experienced with the whole thing!

Well I'll be waiting patiently for the reports so I hope you all go and ROCK N' ROLL through PAINTERS!!! GO FBR RUNNERS!!!!

I entered the above last night, must have my days mixed up... Did manage to get out for a little run this A.M. I had no idea where to go so I just headed out randomly. Biffed it real good about three blocks into my run trying to stay off the busy roads and steep grass that bordered it, and decided I had better find a road with sidewalks. I headed up hill into the research park area around the UofU...not the best running spot but because it is Sat. all of the parking lots were pretty much empty and I just went randomly around from one to another. Not as long as I had hoped (needed another 10 miles to make the scheduled distance for the day...) But felt good to get out of that small liittle room and that was what I needed. Wished that I would have done more, but when I got back the MD was ready to do dressing changes and pack my daughters abd. wound so it worked out that I got back just in time! Hope the half went well, I'll just sit here and wait patiently to hear the outcome!!!

Yet another GOOSE EGG for me!!! I'm begining to wonder if I'll even know how to run if I ever get back out there! We are still at the hospital and I was going to get out and do some running today, but I really like to be here when the Doc's make rounds but that has been an all day process the last few days and I hate to leave because then I end up missing them when I leave the room. The med student rounds about 6:00 a.m. and then the resident comes between 7:00 a.m.- 10:00 and the the actual surgeon comes between 10:00a.m. untill 10:00 at night. Last night I waited untill around 1:00 a.m. when she was supposed to come by and then didn't see anyone untill this morning. I do the stairs every time I get something to eat, and try to add in extra sets of stairs when I dare leave long enough to stretch and get out of the room. I even did leg lifts and squats in the room yesterday but I'm sure that it's not enough to make up for the 3 square meals that I'm eating here due to lack of any other form of real entertainment!!! Hoping to maybe go home tomorrow, my body will thank me when I can get back on my regular shedule of running and eating better. Im not sure if I''ll even dare go near the scales when I do get back home. Jamie is doing pretty well, she feels good, but there have been complications and we may end up going home with a PIC line for some home I.V antibiotics and we will be doing wet dressing changes in her incision for up to a month and then more surgery..... hopefully things will heal sooner and we can get the next surgery done sooner and be over with this whole mess! At this point I don't really care just getting home and sleeping in an actual bed and getting to be out of this little room will be the best thing ever!!!

So I was out going for a quick walk to strech my legs and I saw a sign that said that if you walk the breeze way between Primary Childrens and the U of U 11 times that it equals 1 mile, so I hurried and walked the mile. I will get back later and do another one or two. I realize it's not running but it's better than nothing. Sure wish that I would have seen that sooner, but the other good news is that they finally decided no pic line and that we should be OTTA HERE tomorrow!!!

We made it home yesterday afternoon, and it is so nice to get back to a more normal routine! Jamie and I went to bed around 10:30 last night and I told her to yell if she needed a pain pill or anything...I got up to do the youngest ones hair and tell her goodbye before she went to school and went back to bed. Neither of us moved again untill 9:30 a.m. I think that we were both totally worn out!

Made one of my regular 5 mile routes, felt a little slow and sluggish, but it was good to be back out and I hope it will actually improve my energy level! Ran without music and planned out what was left of my day, I'm going to have to be a bit more organized now with a lot of things that my daughter is going to require over the next couple of weeks untill the next surgery. But I've got a plan for dinner and everything else through the run and so now I can just relax and get it done!!!

Thanks again to all you wonderful bloggies and your prayers and concern you guys are a great group of people with BIG hearts and kind words!!!

Nice run today, legs felt pretty good once I got going and felt like pushing the pace a little (for a slow person) average pace 9:30, finally felt like I got something clicking in this run and it felt nice! Although I was complaining about the cold this morning, once I got warm it felt pretty nice and I thought of those hot days of summer and decided it could be worse! Just glad to get the run in today!!!

Had to runa little "cautiously" this morning, Mr.Jack Frost had his way with us last night and the sheet of ice covered with frost made things a little tricky! With the "splat" that I took last week in SLC, I'm not ready to go skating along face first again! So I just ran easy and carefully. Although it took me an hour to convince myself to get out there because it looked so cold with the blanket of frost all around it again wasn't too bad once I did, and very peaceful and beautiful too! Just glad it's Friday and I'm hoping for a nice quiet relaxing weekend to recharge a little before I have to head back to work on Sunday! (thinking about a long run tomorrow, depending on sleep and weather to try and catch up on some lost miles over the last week or so!) Hope everyone has a great weekend!!!

I almost didn't make it out today, but at the last minute before giving up and just taking a shower I willed myself out the door. It was soooo nice out, was able to dress down a bit and that felt really nice too! As for the run once again, it felt pretty hard? I can't figure it out, all of my runs except for one this week have really worked me over. Todays 7.7 felt more like about 12 but at least I got it in and hopefully next week things will feel a little better! Did love the weather and could really get used to that but I hear that we have a bit of a storm coming so I guess we just enjoy it while it lasts and look forward to spring when it decides to show up. I know that it's a little early to think about but we have got to start seeing a few of these nice days here and there as we are inching into Feb!!

Not the best way to start out the week, but anything today was bonus!  While I tried to sleep today the wind HOWLED outside!  I felt like one of the little pigs with the big bad wolf at my door!  I managed to get in two miles on the treadmill, and wasn't really hating it too bad when I realized that I was out of time and had to get ready to go to work and finish up getting things done with Jamie before I left.  I did get in a few abs, lunges and push ups too.  Although not the way I wanted to start the week, fairly succesful!

So I logged a big zero for yesterday, but I did make it out doors to run today, that was a major improvement. I kinda feel like the after effects of the last two weeks combined with the two night shifts and the miserable weather has seriously got me off track. Todays run although icey and a little hazerdous at times really made me feel better and hopefully I'm headed back on track. I hope to get a good run in tomorrow and then anything Friday will be bonus as we have to be to a doctor apt. at Primary's on Friday at 10:00 a.m. and I see there is yet another storm headed that way for then. Maybe a longer run on Sat. If I can hold that schedule through the week and then get back into my routine next week I'll be doing good!

One on the treadmill and 2.5 outside once the sun came out. Maybe a few more later?