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Flowers, Exercising And Just One More Cup Of Coffee
Going to finish this second cup of coffee and head out for an early walk / jog this morning ..... at least those are my good intentions.
Then the fun part of the day ..... flower shopping and planting. I love flowers. They brighten up the yard ..... and my attitude ..... lol. We have a local grower here and she has awesome health plants and a wide variety. Her prices are unbelievable .... and she always tends to give me a couple free six packs here and there. Good way to keep 'em coming back for more. Anyway mom handed me fifty bucks and said go buy ..... so I'm going to!
Speaking of mom ..... I've been have a real issue lately ..... so what else is new, eh? She has been literally hunting me down ..... no matter where I am ..... for stupid stuff. For example ..... some old lady at bingo the other night who knows I bead told me she had a line on beads .... dirt cheap ..... and would call with the information. Well, she did .... on moms phone .... which if you don't have my cell is the only way to get hold of me. Dave and I had taken off to burn a bowl and had walked out to the barn which is a fair distance from the house when your 85 and unable to walk stably ..... and no sooner do I take a hit then there is mom stumbling .... literally .... towards us ..... "there you are .... hiding from me". Bottom line ..... yes, we were. Anyway ..... she is waving this piece of paper with an address link to this beading website. "Did you actually feel you had to walk all the way out here and give this to me?" "It could of been important" .... she says. It could of waited .... and I told her so.
That is one example ..... out of many ..... she has been just walking into my room lately too .... which is my only PRIVACY ..... and as many times as I tell her to quit, she does it anyway. You know, I'm not flipping 16 ...... why do I feel like it?
We are getting her connected to the county lifeline program so that when we are in at the claim she will just have to push a button if she needs help. And we won't worry so much. We also have a friend that loves to come and check on her. I think she feeds him goodies when he visits ..... so he will always stop by. And she thinks he is just the greatest. And he'll throw hay to the llamas and feed the chickens too.
Ten days and counting. Then we get to spend a whole day with lauralew and her beau infinityedge over on the coast. We will be staying with tattooedjen and intrepid28 and so it will be good to see them and visit as well. A much needed break from here. YAY!
The coffee is now cold and needs a reheat ..... one way to put off putting on those hiking shoes .... lol. Actually it has been great the last few days. Yesterday I walked / jogged to the gate the now closes this forest service road. Probably about three miles round trip ..... today I will go on up aways. Petey and I found Patterson Creek yesterday too on our journey .... the creek the road is named after. It comes out just down the road from us aways next to the highway but I had never really followed it up to see where its roots were. Today I will continue on. I should say we .... Petey is coming to expect these little hikes ..... we couldn't leave quick enough for him yesterday.
Off to nuke the coffee ..... change into my hiking clothes ..... smoke a bowl and take off to enjoy the morning.
Enjoy your Saturday all ..... those of you who aren't working .....
Peace. J.
Then the fun part of the day ..... flower shopping and planting. I love flowers. They brighten up the yard ..... and my attitude ..... lol. We have a local grower here and she has awesome health plants and a wide variety. Her prices are unbelievable .... and she always tends to give me a couple free six packs here and there. Good way to keep 'em coming back for more. Anyway mom handed me fifty bucks and said go buy ..... so I'm going to!
Speaking of mom ..... I've been have a real issue lately ..... so what else is new, eh? She has been literally hunting me down ..... no matter where I am ..... for stupid stuff. For example ..... some old lady at bingo the other night who knows I bead told me she had a line on beads .... dirt cheap ..... and would call with the information. Well, she did .... on moms phone .... which if you don't have my cell is the only way to get hold of me. Dave and I had taken off to burn a bowl and had walked out to the barn which is a fair distance from the house when your 85 and unable to walk stably ..... and no sooner do I take a hit then there is mom stumbling .... literally .... towards us ..... "there you are .... hiding from me". Bottom line ..... yes, we were. Anyway ..... she is waving this piece of paper with an address link to this beading website. "Did you actually feel you had to walk all the way out here and give this to me?" "It could of been important" .... she says. It could of waited .... and I told her so.
That is one example ..... out of many ..... she has been just walking into my room lately too .... which is my only PRIVACY ..... and as many times as I tell her to quit, she does it anyway. You know, I'm not flipping 16 ...... why do I feel like it?
We are getting her connected to the county lifeline program so that when we are in at the claim she will just have to push a button if she needs help. And we won't worry so much. We also have a friend that loves to come and check on her. I think she feeds him goodies when he visits ..... so he will always stop by. And she thinks he is just the greatest. And he'll throw hay to the llamas and feed the chickens too.
Ten days and counting. Then we get to spend a whole day with lauralew and her beau infinityedge over on the coast. We will be staying with tattooedjen and intrepid28 and so it will be good to see them and visit as well. A much needed break from here. YAY!
The coffee is now cold and needs a reheat ..... one way to put off putting on those hiking shoes .... lol. Actually it has been great the last few days. Yesterday I walked / jogged to the gate the now closes this forest service road. Probably about three miles round trip ..... today I will go on up aways. Petey and I found Patterson Creek yesterday too on our journey .... the creek the road is named after. It comes out just down the road from us aways next to the highway but I had never really followed it up to see where its roots were. Today I will continue on. I should say we .... Petey is coming to expect these little hikes ..... we couldn't leave quick enough for him yesterday.
Off to nuke the coffee ..... change into my hiking clothes ..... smoke a bowl and take off to enjoy the morning.
Enjoy your Saturday all ..... those of you who aren't working .....
Peace. J.
Exercising And Mountain Lions
Managed to get some exercise in yesterday.
Not a big fan of running / jogging but took off yesterday just wanting to breathe some fresh air and have some alone time ...... thinking time.
There is a road that runs adjacent to our property. Pavements ends about 3/4 mile down and it turns into a dirt mountain road. I grabbed up Petey at about 11:00 and took off walking and stretching across our property to the road. Petey was excited to be going for a walk. YAY!
Upon hitting the asphalt my walking pace picked up first slowly then quicker. Eventually I broke into a jog and started looking ahead and picking out goals ..... just make it to there. The road is at a very slight uphill incline and I could feel it in my chins as I reached my first goal point. I stopped the jog and dropped to a run / walk ..... incorporating an exaggerated arm swing to help keep up the quickened heart rate. Every now and then I would site a new goal, break into a jog and then back to my quick walk / run pace.
Reaching the end of the pavement and heading on up the dirt road into the woods the quiet beauty of it all was sinking in. Petey running along beside me, pulling off every now and then to smell something that would catch his attention, then catching back up and keeping pace. Then I remembered the mountain lion sighting from last week in the subdivision just down the main highway from us. And my imagination started to work me over. As much as I wanted to keep going I ended up turning around and coming back.
Probably jogged more than 1/2 way back .... is was now at a slight downhill and much easier on the legs / chins. Made it home hot sweaty worked over and ready for a shower.
Today I want to head out again ..... and I keep asking myself ..... do you just keep going further and deeper down the road into the woods ..... knowing this bugger is out there somewhere ..... possibly close? Seeing as he was spotted in a subdivision ..... does it really make a difference if I run in a populated area or in a remote area? He is where he is, right?
When we are on the claim the mountain lion is always in the back of my head, but I don't really dwell on it or think about it much ..... I'm able to push the fear aside and just continue on with my daily routine. Is it just that it is so close to home that it bothers me more?
***sigh***
As I write Petey is out cold. It was quite the run for him yesterday and he is still recovering I believe. He is so damn sweet when he is asleep.
Grapefruit for breakfast and off I go ..... it is supposed to WARM up seriously here today ..... so thinking they could be right it would be best to get this little journey out of the way early.
Its Thursday ..... one day closer to Friday and the weekend ..... off to Medford tomorrow, flower planting on Saturday & Sunday ..... its so nice to be able to be outside in the nice warm sunshine .....
Peace. J.
Not a big fan of running / jogging but took off yesterday just wanting to breathe some fresh air and have some alone time ...... thinking time.
There is a road that runs adjacent to our property. Pavements ends about 3/4 mile down and it turns into a dirt mountain road. I grabbed up Petey at about 11:00 and took off walking and stretching across our property to the road. Petey was excited to be going for a walk. YAY!
Upon hitting the asphalt my walking pace picked up first slowly then quicker. Eventually I broke into a jog and started looking ahead and picking out goals ..... just make it to there. The road is at a very slight uphill incline and I could feel it in my chins as I reached my first goal point. I stopped the jog and dropped to a run / walk ..... incorporating an exaggerated arm swing to help keep up the quickened heart rate. Every now and then I would site a new goal, break into a jog and then back to my quick walk / run pace.
Reaching the end of the pavement and heading on up the dirt road into the woods the quiet beauty of it all was sinking in. Petey running along beside me, pulling off every now and then to smell something that would catch his attention, then catching back up and keeping pace. Then I remembered the mountain lion sighting from last week in the subdivision just down the main highway from us. And my imagination started to work me over. As much as I wanted to keep going I ended up turning around and coming back.
Probably jogged more than 1/2 way back .... is was now at a slight downhill and much easier on the legs / chins. Made it home hot sweaty worked over and ready for a shower.
Today I want to head out again ..... and I keep asking myself ..... do you just keep going further and deeper down the road into the woods ..... knowing this bugger is out there somewhere ..... possibly close? Seeing as he was spotted in a subdivision ..... does it really make a difference if I run in a populated area or in a remote area? He is where he is, right?
When we are on the claim the mountain lion is always in the back of my head, but I don't really dwell on it or think about it much ..... I'm able to push the fear aside and just continue on with my daily routine. Is it just that it is so close to home that it bothers me more?
***sigh***
As I write Petey is out cold. It was quite the run for him yesterday and he is still recovering I believe. He is so damn sweet when he is asleep.
Grapefruit for breakfast and off I go ..... it is supposed to WARM up seriously here today ..... so thinking they could be right it would be best to get this little journey out of the way early.
Its Thursday ..... one day closer to Friday and the weekend ..... off to Medford tomorrow, flower planting on Saturday & Sunday ..... its so nice to be able to be outside in the nice warm sunshine .....
Peace. J.
Weekly wrap up (A solid one).
G'day & thanks for coming by again. Another week has come and gone and yet I still find myself looking way way way ahead. I was speaking w/ my coach (Lorraine Moller) recently after a run, and mentioned how I couldn't remember the last time ONE single day had passed by that the thought/dream of the Beijing Olympics didn't enter my min mind in one way or another. Even when I was battling the flu a few weeks back I'd think, "Okay we've gotta kick this thing so we can get back on TRACK."
That being behind me now and just having completed my 2nd full week of training, I'm happy to say that I really do feel like things are falling into place. I had two solid workouts this week (Tues/Saturday) which you can see below, and felt more or less good & cruisy on the days in between. I was able to get a good session of hill drills in as well as two of core. I was still however pretty cautious in the hill drills, as I had been left rather sore by them the week before.
The only real hitch in the week, came on Tuesday when I was doing my 1st workout under Lorraine's supervision since returning from New Zealand, when I was the victim of a (I'll admit a minor) hit and run. I was doing 3 x mile repeats on the roads, with Lorraine following in the car. I was having a good go at it, which was surprising as I really felt sluggish during my warm up. I was about 200 - 300 meters into the last one, when I turned into the next street. Lorraine hadn't made it around the turn yet, as she likes to spot me 50 - 100 meters while in the car. There was a car right in front of me attempting to (I believe) park, when the car behind it decided to -instead of waiting- drive around it and thus eating up the remainder of road.
I was more or less pinned (not physically) between parked cars and this on coming car. It swerved at the last minute, but not before smashing my elbow with its rear view mirror. Their mirror broke, I was spun about 180 degrees, but because I was moving so fast at the time, didn't really break stride much. I looked back as they sped away and finally saw Lorraine making the turn. I didn't want to stop but it did cross my mind. I continued on and closed out that mile as my fastest. It was only afterwards, that I realized the extent of the damage, as my elbow got swollen and there was some blood.
I got several massages (thanks Harlan!) around my shoulder region, as it got pretty tight up there. My Elbow wasn't too bad, just swollen, so I was able to run the next day and the day after that. I still feel a bit of stiffness around my shoulder area, but it'll pass, as I'm getting worked on it daily.
So that's more or less my week. The weather has been great. I'm happy to report that I'm healthy (despite the car thing) and feeling quite optimistic about the near future. I turn 26 on Friday and have not really planned on celebrating it (in earnest) till after my races in Beijing (of course if all goes according to plan). I might head to California for a few weeks of sea level training before my 1st race. This won't be for another month or so. This will also hopefully allow me 4 more weeks up at elevation where I can put in a solid month before FINALY unleashing and seeing where I'm at. Below is the typical week break down.
Week (#38) February 24th - March 1st
Sunday: Distance: 16.50 miles @ 12:30PM (54 degrees), Pace: 6:21 Run Duration: 1h:45
Good hilly run starting @ home (5,500ft aprox) and climbing straight up for 45 - 50 mins to max elevation of 6,500+/- ft. Felt good but the hills were def tough!
Monday: Distance: 10.50 miles @ Hog backs + Red Rocks + Mt. Sanitas (hilly trail run) @ 4:30PM Pace: 6:28 Run Duration: 68mins. Another good hilly run, where I felt much more fluid than previous day.
Tuesday: AM: SLEEP IN!!! PM: Workout @ North Boulder. 3 x 1 mile Road Repeats. Terrain = Uphill, Flat, Downhill & Flat. Lorraine, Harlan & Jasmine followed in car. Avg pace = 4:33.67 Fastest: 4:28 (last one) Slowest: 4:37 (1st one) Distance: 11 miles total for day
Wednesday: Distance: 14.25 miles @ 8:20AM (38 degrees), Pace: 6:23. Didn't feel too great, but it could've been due to "run" in w/ car yesterday. Started out towards the big hills but turned around and kept it rather flat/boring.
Thursday: Distance: 6.00 miles + Hill Drills @ 8:25AM ( 50 degrees). P.M (5:30) 10 miles + Core Work @ Rally Sports Gym.
Friday: A.M 8:25 Distance: 4.50 miles. P.M 57 degrees @ 4:35 Distance: 11.50 miles PM, Pace: 6:16
Ran from the house straight uphill to Chautauqua Park. It was far too nice of a day not to go up up up high(er) above town and enjoy the views which would be my reward for the lung busting hill climbs. I climbed almost 1,000ft in about 15 - 20 mins of running.
Saturday: A.M 65 Degrees @ 10:15. Easy out & back on Creek Path. Distance: 8.00 miles
P.M: (75 degrees!) Workout @ Boulder High School: 12 x 400 meters (400m jog recovery) . With Lorraine & her friend Lynn there for support. Avg pace = 65.00, Range: 66 = slowest, 61 = fastest (last one). Picked up a cramp about 6 or 7 reps into it, but luckily it didn't get worst. Lorraine said I looked smooth and relaxed whole way. Break Down of the Miles: 4:25 = 1st mile (4 x 400m), 4:21 = 2nd mile & 4:14 = 3rd mile. Would've liked to "close" (meaning finish the workout) a lot faster w/ sub 60 last lap, but was pretty honest with effort and thus had little left to go much quicker. Total Mileage (for day): 20.75 miles
Week's Total Mileage: 105 (avg: 15.00 miles per day)
Thanks again for stopping by....
Peace & Love
That being behind me now and just having completed my 2nd full week of training, I'm happy to say that I really do feel like things are falling into place. I had two solid workouts this week (Tues/Saturday) which you can see below, and felt more or less good & cruisy on the days in between. I was able to get a good session of hill drills in as well as two of core. I was still however pretty cautious in the hill drills, as I had been left rather sore by them the week before.
The only real hitch in the week, came on Tuesday when I was doing my 1st workout under Lorraine's supervision since returning from New Zealand, when I was the victim of a (I'll admit a minor) hit and run. I was doing 3 x mile repeats on the roads, with Lorraine following in the car. I was having a good go at it, which was surprising as I really felt sluggish during my warm up. I was about 200 - 300 meters into the last one, when I turned into the next street. Lorraine hadn't made it around the turn yet, as she likes to spot me 50 - 100 meters while in the car. There was a car right in front of me attempting to (I believe) park, when the car behind it decided to -instead of waiting- drive around it and thus eating up the remainder of road.
I was more or less pinned (not physically) between parked cars and this on coming car. It swerved at the last minute, but not before smashing my elbow with its rear view mirror. Their mirror broke, I was spun about 180 degrees, but because I was moving so fast at the time, didn't really break stride much. I looked back as they sped away and finally saw Lorraine making the turn. I didn't want to stop but it did cross my mind. I continued on and closed out that mile as my fastest. It was only afterwards, that I realized the extent of the damage, as my elbow got swollen and there was some blood.
I got several massages (thanks Harlan!) around my shoulder region, as it got pretty tight up there. My Elbow wasn't too bad, just swollen, so I was able to run the next day and the day after that. I still feel a bit of stiffness around my shoulder area, but it'll pass, as I'm getting worked on it daily.
So that's more or less my week. The weather has been great. I'm happy to report that I'm healthy (despite the car thing) and feeling quite optimistic about the near future. I turn 26 on Friday and have not really planned on celebrating it (in earnest) till after my races in Beijing (of course if all goes according to plan). I might head to California for a few weeks of sea level training before my 1st race. This won't be for another month or so. This will also hopefully allow me 4 more weeks up at elevation where I can put in a solid month before FINALY unleashing and seeing where I'm at. Below is the typical week break down.
Week (#38) February 24th - March 1st
Sunday: Distance: 16.50 miles @ 12:30PM (54 degrees), Pace: 6:21 Run Duration: 1h:45
Good hilly run starting @ home (5,500ft aprox) and climbing straight up for 45 - 50 mins to max elevation of 6,500+/- ft. Felt good but the hills were def tough!
Monday: Distance: 10.50 miles @ Hog backs + Red Rocks + Mt. Sanitas (hilly trail run) @ 4:30PM Pace: 6:28 Run Duration: 68mins. Another good hilly run, where I felt much more fluid than previous day.
Tuesday: AM: SLEEP IN!!! PM: Workout @ North Boulder. 3 x 1 mile Road Repeats. Terrain = Uphill, Flat, Downhill & Flat. Lorraine, Harlan & Jasmine followed in car. Avg pace = 4:33.67 Fastest: 4:28 (last one) Slowest: 4:37 (1st one) Distance: 11 miles total for day
Wednesday: Distance: 14.25 miles @ 8:20AM (38 degrees), Pace: 6:23. Didn't feel too great, but it could've been due to "run" in w/ car yesterday. Started out towards the big hills but turned around and kept it rather flat/boring.
Thursday: Distance: 6.00 miles + Hill Drills @ 8:25AM ( 50 degrees). P.M (5:30) 10 miles + Core Work @ Rally Sports Gym.
Friday: A.M 8:25 Distance: 4.50 miles. P.M 57 degrees @ 4:35 Distance: 11.50 miles PM, Pace: 6:16
Ran from the house straight uphill to Chautauqua Park. It was far too nice of a day not to go up up up high(er) above town and enjoy the views which would be my reward for the lung busting hill climbs. I climbed almost 1,000ft in about 15 - 20 mins of running.
Saturday: A.M 65 Degrees @ 10:15. Easy out & back on Creek Path. Distance: 8.00 miles
P.M: (75 degrees!) Workout @ Boulder High School: 12 x 400 meters (400m jog recovery) . With Lorraine & her friend Lynn there for support. Avg pace = 65.00, Range: 66 = slowest, 61 = fastest (last one). Picked up a cramp about 6 or 7 reps into it, but luckily it didn't get worst. Lorraine said I looked smooth and relaxed whole way. Break Down of the Miles: 4:25 = 1st mile (4 x 400m), 4:21 = 2nd mile & 4:14 = 3rd mile. Would've liked to "close" (meaning finish the workout) a lot faster w/ sub 60 last lap, but was pretty honest with effort and thus had little left to go much quicker. Total Mileage (for day): 20.75 miles
Week's Total Mileage: 105 (avg: 15.00 miles per day)
Thanks again for stopping by....
Peace & Love
you just can't beat child birth.
the triathalon for track was today.
i'm usually dreading it, only today wasn't so bad.
last year was like, CUT THROAT COMPETITION.
this year was like, hey yeah it's a mini triathalon.
the swim is 750 meters.
which is like half a mile.
which is 32 freaking laps.
the bike is six miles.
and the run is 3 miles.
i ran last year and this year too.
the course has a lot of hills in it, but it's really not horrible.
plus running cross country puts me as a good candidate for sprinters running it.
the distance kids own obviously. haha.
so my team was Audrey, Apple, and Me.
Audrey's a lifeguard, so i asked her if she would swim for us because she's not in track.
she accepted! :D
so it's chill.
and she was really good!
13:06. not the best, but i think we were like 10th or 12th. so things were looking good.
and the way it works is like this.
all the swimmers go, and then the bikers go from when the swimmers go.
so they have to wait for ALL the swimmers to finish, and then they let the bikers out in correspondence to the swimmers.
ya dig?
so we were pretty okay.
except...Apple was like, the slowest you could possibly be.
we were thinking she was lost or something. even though the course was like a straight line to a cone and then turn around and come back to the pool..
she still could've got lost. ha.
so at first i was like oh okay some people passed her whatever.
then i was like okay i guess she got lost..
then i was freaking out because almost EVERYONE was gone and Apple didn't show up yet.
she came in last.
she had some trouble with her chain and she fell and stuff, so that's why.
but anyways.
she came in last, but i wasn't too worried.
i passed about five people on the course, so i was okay.
i think our time was like, 1:51 or something.
haha.
i'm usually dreading it, only today wasn't so bad.
last year was like, CUT THROAT COMPETITION.
this year was like, hey yeah it's a mini triathalon.
the swim is 750 meters.
which is like half a mile.
which is 32 freaking laps.
the bike is six miles.
and the run is 3 miles.
i ran last year and this year too.
the course has a lot of hills in it, but it's really not horrible.
plus running cross country puts me as a good candidate for sprinters running it.
the distance kids own obviously. haha.
so my team was Audrey, Apple, and Me.
Audrey's a lifeguard, so i asked her if she would swim for us because she's not in track.
she accepted! :D
so it's chill.
and she was really good!
13:06. not the best, but i think we were like 10th or 12th. so things were looking good.
and the way it works is like this.
all the swimmers go, and then the bikers go from when the swimmers go.
so they have to wait for ALL the swimmers to finish, and then they let the bikers out in correspondence to the swimmers.
ya dig?
so we were pretty okay.
except...Apple was like, the slowest you could possibly be.
we were thinking she was lost or something. even though the course was like a straight line to a cone and then turn around and come back to the pool..
she still could've got lost. ha.
so at first i was like oh okay some people passed her whatever.
then i was like okay i guess she got lost..
then i was freaking out because almost EVERYONE was gone and Apple didn't show up yet.
she came in last.
she had some trouble with her chain and she fell and stuff, so that's why.
but anyways.
she came in last, but i wasn't too worried.
i passed about five people on the course, so i was okay.
i think our time was like, 1:51 or something.
haha.
The Big Run
I woke up this morning and thought to myself, "Damn, today is the day." So I rolled, and I mean I really rolled because I was so warm underneath my red blanket and for some reason the heat was down to 71?!?! Yeah so I got up walked to the front door and looked outside and it looked a bit icy, so I decided to do my 3 mile walk workout video instead of walking outside. Now before you start thinking, "Oh she punked out-punk!" I did not punk out, I just made an executive decision to switch my running to the evening. So I left work at 415, picked up Maylin from daycare, went home and changed into my running gear, left Maylin with my mom, and headed out the door ah around 530 ish. Now if you noticed, there are pictures of proof- I thought since this was my first run I would commerate the occasion with pictures. I would have had some of me running, but my sister wouldn't cooperate with me and only took the one of me by the door, after much begging and pleading. By the way, she laughed when I told her that I was going to go run a mile and that it would take me a half-hour. (Miss I-can-run-9-miles-in-one-hour-and-blah-blah-minutes ) Side note: Wow, ok so I was trying to find an emoticon to depict my moon and I gotta tell ya, some of those emoticons scare me...seriously.
Now my neighborhood is HUGE right, so the section I live in is roughly a mile. So I started out running at a somewhat slow pace, I wanted to pick up speed gradually- didn't want to send my body into shock. Immediately as I began to run I felt the cold air rushing into my lungs at a much faster pace than when I'm walking so I had to take really big and deep breaths because it was getting a bit harder to breathe. Then my ankles started aching and the pain moved up to my thighs and that was only 10 minutes into running , so I was like "Dang, push it through Lex!" I thought I stretched enough beforehand but I guess not, so I was really pushing to get through the last 5 minutes. Then I slowed down to my normal walking pace, which was like heaven- I could breathe easier and the pain in my thighs and ankles started to subside. I took in my surroundings and felt happy to be alive. I emptied my mind, as much as I could, as I normally do when I'm walking and tried to just think of nothing. I love this time- no noise, no work, no baby (even though I love my Maylin to pieces). Just me and the wind and the air and the snow. Towards the end of my run/walk, I began to feel raindrops falling on my face. I was on such a high from being outside, I was all, "Bring it on!" But then I realized, "Oh crap I still have a ways to go...no no don't bring it on!" The raindrops started to get heavier and drop faster and I was thinking, "Man, now I'm really gonna have to run...and my hair!" LOL I made it though, just as I put the garage door down I heard the rain start to pelt.
I have mixed feelings about the running. I didn't get any adrenaline rush or any high. I guess I am too early in the game to really make a decision as to whether or not I like it beyond just for exercise. I'm gonna stick with it though. I figure I will do my usual walking every morning, indoors or outdoors and then I will add in the running part every Monday till I can actually run a whole mile. Then we'll go from there.
So now I am going to go finish watching Dance Wars and eat some pumpkin spice cake w/vanilla bean ice cream. I think I deserve it, don't you?
I woke up this morning and thought to myself, "Damn, today is the day." So I rolled, and I mean I really rolled because I was so warm underneath my red blanket and for some reason the heat was down to 71?!?! Yeah so I got up walked to the front door and looked outside and it looked a bit icy, so I decided to do my 3 mile walk workout video instead of walking outside. Now before you start thinking, "Oh she punked out-punk!" I did not punk out, I just made an executive decision to switch my running to the evening. So I left work at 415, picked up Maylin from daycare, went home and changed into my running gear, left Maylin with my mom, and headed out the door ah around 530 ish. Now if you noticed, there are pictures of proof- I thought since this was my first run I would commerate the occasion with pictures. I would have had some of me running, but my sister wouldn't cooperate with me and only took the one of me by the door, after much begging and pleading. By the way, she laughed when I told her that I was going to go run a mile and that it would take me a half-hour. (Miss I-can-run-9-miles-in-one-hour-and-blah-blah-minutes ) Side note: Wow, ok so I was trying to find an emoticon to depict my moon and I gotta tell ya, some of those emoticons scare me...seriously.
Now my neighborhood is HUGE right, so the section I live in is roughly a mile. So I started out running at a somewhat slow pace, I wanted to pick up speed gradually- didn't want to send my body into shock. Immediately as I began to run I felt the cold air rushing into my lungs at a much faster pace than when I'm walking so I had to take really big and deep breaths because it was getting a bit harder to breathe. Then my ankles started aching and the pain moved up to my thighs and that was only 10 minutes into running , so I was like "Dang, push it through Lex!" I thought I stretched enough beforehand but I guess not, so I was really pushing to get through the last 5 minutes. Then I slowed down to my normal walking pace, which was like heaven- I could breathe easier and the pain in my thighs and ankles started to subside. I took in my surroundings and felt happy to be alive. I emptied my mind, as much as I could, as I normally do when I'm walking and tried to just think of nothing. I love this time- no noise, no work, no baby (even though I love my Maylin to pieces). Just me and the wind and the air and the snow. Towards the end of my run/walk, I began to feel raindrops falling on my face. I was on such a high from being outside, I was all, "Bring it on!" But then I realized, "Oh crap I still have a ways to go...no no don't bring it on!" The raindrops started to get heavier and drop faster and I was thinking, "Man, now I'm really gonna have to run...and my hair!" LOL I made it though, just as I put the garage door down I heard the rain start to pelt.
I have mixed feelings about the running. I didn't get any adrenaline rush or any high. I guess I am too early in the game to really make a decision as to whether or not I like it beyond just for exercise. I'm gonna stick with it though. I figure I will do my usual walking every morning, indoors or outdoors and then I will add in the running part every Monday till I can actually run a whole mile. Then we'll go from there.
So now I am going to go finish watching Dance Wars and eat some pumpkin spice cake w/vanilla bean ice cream. I think I deserve it, don't you?
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