I Probably Should Make My Blog Public again

Didn't run much last week while I was at my parents.  I hope to get in some sort of groove starting this week.  I STILL have a cold.  It just keeps traveling around.  At least I'm not coughing anymore.

 Hope everyone had a Merry Christmas and a happy New Year!

Wore a new pair of shoes today and an old pair of socks (time to do laundry).  Realized at 2.25 miles that my heels were bleeding because the socks weren't high enough.  Ran .25 barefoot then called it a day.

Yesterday we went to buy the boys new shoes.  When I was helping Eli, I saw that he was wearing a pair of my socks.  And they weren't that big on him.  That's kinda scary.  He's not even 5 and I have big feet.

Then later I found the socks in my shower.  He told me that when he was done pooping and was putting his clothes back on (yes, he's that weird kid who takes off all of his clothes to go #2), he accidentally put his foot in the toilet.  Don't know how that happened.

I think I overdid it on Saturday.  Felt some sciatic pain.  Rested a couple days and then took it easy (or easier, since nothing I'm doing is too strenuous anyway.

I'm hoping my problem late last week was because I was running differently to stop my heels from bleeding again (they were really sore and the backs of my shoes are now permanently bloody.  And these were new shoes, sigh). 

I felt a few twinges during this run, but now that my heels aren't bloody, I think my form is normal.  I felt sore when I slept, but feel good now a day later.

Wednesday we had our ultrasound.  I brought the boys along because they wanted to know if they were having a baby brother or sister.  Caleb was intrigued at first, but lost interest when the tech went looking for things like the kidney and the gallbladder.  Eli was interested for about 3 minutes. I hoped that when the tech went searching between the legs, their interest would return.

But all we know right now is that the baby has a beautiful set of feet.  They prevented the tech from being able to see the goods.  Stubborn baby. 

I'm indifferent, but it would have been nice to know.  To compound the hilarity of this, one of the two classes that I'm still teaching was so into this that one of them baked cupcakes (in pink and blue) and another made one pink and one blue bracelet for me to wear into class so they could know.  I was supposed to reach for the right colored cupcake with the hand wearing the bracelet.   I milked it as long as I could to compound their outrage.  They, I think, were more disappointed than I was.

This is my first run in more than a week.  I was fighting walking pneumonia and/or bronchitis.  Now I'm feeling better, though I still have this stupid cough.  I hope whatever I had is gone.

My pace was exceptionally slow, never even breaking 11 minutes per mile.  Just testing the waters.

Didn't mean to blog about how I was sick and then not blog for a week.  I'm doing much better.  Still a little cough, but it's almost gone.

I felt pretty good after this run, but my changing stride is leaving me with a little soreness in my lower back.