I Can Do Hard Things

Early morning walk for 2 miles - 30 minutes.

2 cul-de-sac worth of lunges

10 minutes ab ripper x

10 minutes PT exercises and stretching

After reading several race reports, I'm feeling extremely excited and sad.  Weird combination, I know.  Excited for what races are coming this year, but sad because I have so long to go to get into shape.

After school walk with 2 neighbor friends.  Funny.... I can find a lot more walking buddies than running buddies in the neighborhood!

During the walk, we let the little girls play for a minute on the playground.  I did a ton of lunges and sit ups.

Ankle is still achy.  I feel like I will never return to normal.

26:51 on the stair mill at the gym.

It felt like I was hardly moving, yet my heart was beating out of control and my breathing was gasping for air.  BUT...the longer I went, the better I felt.

1 set of

3xcore work

3x60 wall sits

3x60 sec planks

Ankle has felt much better today.  I'll see how the stair mill treats the ankle.  I would really like to do it everyday....it is the closest workout to running. 

Leaving for Cali in the morning.  It's gonna be a looooonnnnnggggg day.

Sicker than sick.  Laid on the bathroom floor of the Circus Circus hotel in Reno all night thinking I would rather be dead than have the stomach bug.  

But grateful it happened in the middle of the night and not while driving to Cali.  I turned my alarm off at 5:00am and crawled back into bed dismissing all physical activity (especially my planned run).

Feeling ALIVE!!!!!

I went out for a run/walk around my brother-in-laws house in the Bay area.  Wowzer...it was beautiful.  I watched the sun come up over the mountains.  I ran on some trails.  Saw a beautiful deer.  Received a warning about coyotes. 

Just what I needed after spending 2 days in a car.

9 minute run...1 minute walk.

We went to my niece's baptism and had a wonderful day with family.