making a comeback!

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.