making a comeback!

Well today is the first day of school at our house so everyone gets in a little bit of a dither, from the kids to our dad who is the principal of an area school. Knowing that things might be crazy when I got home from work this morning and I might not get out I decided to take the long way home and run home. That way if I came home and things were a llittle crazy I would already be done. I did however forget to get my ipod so I had to do it without music. something I never do. It wasn't too bad once my breathing regulated and it didn't sound as much like a trane huffing and puffing along! All in all not to bad.

Well got everyone off to school for the big first day!!! I think I'm off to bed for a big nap!!!

Ran home from work again today, but slipped by the track to add on a little more. Felt pretty good but got tired towards the end. Off to get a good nap now!

I blogged this once and must not have hit submit so here goes the condensed version! New route, kinda hilly but good. Feeling exhausted with weeks activites but should be able to sleep tonight so I'm sure that will help a lot! Found lots of sprincklers this morning! (Yea!!!!) I thinkk they were the only thing that got me thru. Felt really slow with fatigue average time 9:57.

Again I think the theme for the last two runs has been hard. Today seemed even harder that the six miles that I did yesterday? I even seemed to do better Mon and Tues. running home from work after a 12 hour night shift, seems a little backward. I guess the bright spot is that I've gotten it in for today and look forward to tomorrow!! I'm sure it will be better. :) :)

Oh... I forgot to mention that Tues. morning while I was running home it was dark out and I came around the corner just as a car was coming down the road. We kinda came together at the same time. Well up the road about 20 feet is a canal bridge. The car was obviously going faster than me, so it got to the bridge before me. Just as it did, a skunk came skooting out across the bridge. I'm really glad for the car because I'm sure we would have met almost face to face. I thought it was funny because of the discussion on skunks just the other day!

Today I lingered a little around the house, made the mistake of turning on the t.v. while I was making my bed after the kids left for school! It only sucked me in for about 10 mins. but I know that I can't do that any more, it made it really hard to get out the door. At one time I told myself that I could have the day off! My hip was hurting when I got up and that was part of the problem. I did put some heat on it when I got up and took ibuprofen about an hour before heading out. Once I got out the door things didn't feel all that easy but I did talk myself from four miles into six. And now sitting here the hip feels pretty good. ( the pain will be later!) pretty nice run, but I have felt like a turtle all week! Average time 9:55. I get so jealous when I read all the guys on the blogs comments, they seem to have all these gears and an accelerator to choose from, I tend to be stuck in second gear! On the bright side it's FINALLY FRIDAY!!!!! This marathon week at our house is almost in the bag... Yea!!!! Can't wait to hear all of the weekend race reports! Good luck to everyone!!!

Got out a little late this morning since we didn't get to bed till around two. Decided to just do a quick run and then help my husband tackle the neglected yard, that somewhat resembles a jungle! Still felt a little sluggish this morning. Hope to hit the ground running next week and get a long run in there too. Hope that we can settle into a better schedule and get to bed at night, i think that would really help. So far since school started Mon. we've just been getting up early and staying up like it was still summer!