Recovering from micro-fracture surgery :(

I was planning on getting up early for a run since my visiting teachers were coming at 8 this morning.  I woke up early and thought I would just rest my eyes for a minute and the next thing I heard was the doorbell at 8am. haha! I hit the door at the same time as my kids.  My hub left for work at 6:30 and the rest of us lazy slackers slept until 8!  

After my hour visit I got ready for the run.  It was a HOT one today.  I don't know if it was just too hot for people to be out or if they know me by now and when they saw that I was coming they jumped into a ditch or bush to make sure that they didn't have to waste their time talking to me today! :)

I felt great until 6.45 and then I felt as if I was carrying around an extra 200lbs!  I was exhausted!  It didn't help that I have a half mile of a hill that is about 1.5 miles from my home that looks and feels as if you are running straight up.  I goosed it the last .25 and then stopped at the stop sign that is always the end of the run for me.  After I stopped I thought I was going to pass out.  Everything started to get dark and I was a soaked mess.  I got goosebumps all over me and thought I was going to puke!  It is only 2 months from St. George marathon.  How in the heck am I going to get my butt in shape to run that in Boston time?   Dang!

I spent too much time cleaning my house.  We have interested people that are coming through again next week.  I only had time to squeeze in three fast ones before taking a bunch of people to the dollar movies with me.  We saw Kung Fu Panda 2 for the second time.  Some of the people we were going with hadn't seen it.  I just love Poe's dad the goose.  He makes the show for me! ha!

I am probably going to hike somewhere with my sis today.  She flew in from Seattle yesterday and I am on my way to pick her up in a few.  It looks like another hot day around here so I better squeeze the pool in too.  I really think I am going to start to wear sunscreen since a little girl at church the other day poked at my arm and said, "Ewww, what is wrong with your arm? You have polka-dots".  The only reason I am tan is because I have so many darn freckles.  Born into a family of eight with 4 red-heads, 3 brunettes and 1 blond. My dad looks albino and cannot tan and my mom can get tan but freckles....if I keep tanning myself like I do I am going to look like I am going on 70 instead of 40 next year! :(

Hiked 6 up Little Cottonwood with my sis.

I hiked up to Lake Blanche this morning with a brother, two sisters, a teenage niece and a nephew.  The nephew that I usually run with was suppose to come up with us too, but he cancelled at 6am.  He does that sometimes.  He missed out because it was BEAUTIFUL!  It is 3 miles up.  6 roundtrip.  I haven't been on this trail since last year.  After we got to the top I had to head back down.  I had a busy day ahead of me and I couldn't stay and go over to Lake Lillian and hang out and chat with my family like I wanted to.  

I started to run down the trail and my left knee was killing me.  I tried to walk fast, slow, run, everything was hurting my knee.  I had planned on running from the trailhead home.  When I got to the bottom of the trail, my knee was hurting so bad that I didn't know how I was going to run the 8 miles home!  I thought I should probably not run on it and just wait for my fam to get down the trail.....but I didn't.  I had to get home.  My in-laws were having a bbq at noon for my birthday and my daughters bday this week.

I started running and it was hurting.  I kept hoping that my family would not stay up there for too long and they would pick me up on the way back to my house to pick up their cars.  My hub stopped to pick me up about 1.5 miles before I was home. He was headed to his moms. I have never been so happy to cut a training run short.  I usually can't stand to not finish what I have planned on running.  I am a bit smarter now that I used to be.  I would have ran hard on a hurting knee before.  I am really hoping I didn't damage anything that will make me have to stay off of my knee for a bit.  I only have two months to get in shape for St. George!