not for the faint of heart II

same toe different foot

not for the faint of heart...

OW OW OW!!

a piddly 1.38 miles

and everything HURTS... my feet have re-re-re blistered, my thighs
and hamstrings are tight (sorry, TIGHT), my knees feel on the wonky
side... I'm a mess.. seriously.

feels like I went 13, not 1.3. i guess it doesn't help I'm
'functioning' on 3 hours of sleep.

schedule this week is 4, 6, 3, 11... it's only getting higher...
dunno if my body can keep up with the miles.

christine

owowow!!

10 mile /fail

4 miles and a killer toe

i should have stopped at 1.5 miles... omfg ... my toe is swollen to say the least.

10 miles is not going to happen tomorrow. it hurts just to walk. sucks.

my 4 miles was fairly boring. went the same route 3 times ... (had J in tow in the stroller)..

so yeah, blisters hurt like a MF...

so, since im not running tomorrow, sangriaaaaahhhhhhhhh

5 miles with the babe...

since i refuse to go out when it's dark outside (sidewalks are too uneven and i'm one of the biggest (heh) klutzes i know) and J doesnt care for the gym daycare (cries ... err screams .. the entire time), i decided to try to do a short (HA!!) distance with him in his stroller. it's just a regular Graco, not an 800 dollar jogging stroller, but we'll see...

i've been home for a few hours and i'm still undecided on whether i liked the experience or not... yes, it was more difficult pushing him in the stroller (but i probably burned a few more calories), he slept most of the time (and he doesnt look like he's going to duplicate that rest at home - so no "me time"), i had to stay relatively close to home just in case ... so the route was SO f'ing boring... SO.FING.BORING....

but it was nice getting him outside.. when he was awake, i could tell he was enjoying it... so i'll probably do this once or twice a week while the weather is "OK"... i may just suck it up and do my regular 2.5 mile route (and back to make it 5 miles)

blisters are back on my right foot... same place. the good news is, they didnt start hurting until well into the 4 mile mark - as opposed to the half mile mark last time... tomorrow is an off day then 4 friday and TEN (omgTenMiles!!!) saturday...

a non-running friend

emailed me and asked why the hell i do this to myself (run) if i hate it so much...

first of all, i really dont HATE it, per se... i hate the blisters and the achy body that i get when i do long distances (and dont stretch after), but the running itself - as long as it's outside *NOT on a dreadmill* - i'm ok with ... i am getting faster and to be honest, the only issues on my 8 miler today were my feet... my hamstrings were ok, right knee was a **tad** wonky towards the end, but nothing to seriously complain about... so yeah, not that horrible...

i just like to bitch and complain... i'm so good at it, it's practically an art! ;)

plus, where else can i burn 1768 calories in a bit over 2 hours!??!

oh lovely blisters...

these f'ing hurt already...

8.13 miles today...
first blister on heel area. blisters 2, 3, 4 are on toes...
purple .. actually **between** my toes... blister 5 is on pinky toe...

oh running, how I loathe errr love thee

hi ... welcome to

slackers r us...

im president, ceo, etc....

this can't be good

right hamstring hurts like a bitch... stretching now and it's not
helping...

maybe I need to start seriously thinking about doing the half...

christine

next few runs..

I'm going to try to do 5 tonight (no promises.. but I need to do
**something**), 4 tomorrow & 6 Saturday... 15 miles / 3 days...
yay... guess I need to buy some more Muscle Milk to get the cals in
me... mmmmmm... yum!

christine

excuses don't help you cross the finish line

I was supposed to do 5 miles today but didn't...  I could 'blame' Rick for keeping me up late, Joshua for waking me up no fewer than 5-6 times, whatever...  it essentially boils down to 'i didn't get my extra large ass out of bed this morning to run'...

normally, it wouldn't be a big deal, but this time it is...  I havent skipped a run this training period - until now...  and tomorrow is a busy day - Rick is running in the morning & I have stuff to do the rest if the day...  I could go to the gym after Rick gets home, but just the thought of 5 on a dreadmill makes my knees ache..

then there's the fact I have 4 Friday & 6 Saturday...  that would be 15 miles in 3 days...  13 in 3 was horrid...  add another 2??

I guess I'll see how well I sleep tonight...

speaking of - gnite

christine

long run

well i had my long 'run' yesterday. 6 grueling miles. the first 3 to 4 miles were actually pretty decent. even that stupid hill was "ok"... i turned around at mile 3 and slowly (errr quickly) lost steam / momentum / whatever the fuck i had... by mile 5 i could see where i had to turn and didnt know if i was going to make it.

but i did. it truly sucked, but i made it.

today was supposed to be my 'rest day', but since Rick and i are on the same schedule, i wanted to change it so we had our long runs on the same day (especially since i'm so slow and the long runs are going to take me freaking forever.)

so i went 4 miles today. it actually wasnt *horrible* - well except for the fact that i thought my hamstring was going to snap in half..

i also need to consume more calories... i burned 1,338 yesterday and pretty much that's all i consumed all day... myfoodplate or whatever said i had to eat about 3,000 more calories ... that is after i ate quite a bit for lunch (stuffed french toast, muffin - few bites, etc...). so today i burned 881 cals and went to get a smoothie and smoothie king was closed... gahhhh!

so i'm off tomorrow - supposed to be a strength training day, but 13 miles in 3 days is enough for these old legs.

cheating...

you know i f'ing hated every step of my 3 miles today. loathed it more than i can even begin to describe. i started out at the high school track and hated it (way too many peeps) and it was just blahhhh... .75 miles. ugh. so i got in the car and went to the gym. "only" 2.25 miles. i can so do this (ha!)

cursing every step. every.single.step. hated it with a passion. then a thought came... i dont "have" to do this... i can just get off and say Nike+ stopped working or i forgot to turn it on or whatever... but i'd really only be cheating myself. really - who gives a flying F if i go the full 3.0 miles? no one... but me.

so if i'm going to do this (and i am), im going to do it right. im not going to cheat myself out of miles (even though Nike+ conveniently does that for me - went 2.25, logged 2.03)...

so i burned 620 calories... that's what i'm going to focus on. caloric burn. cant burn calories by cheating.

just fucking do it, christine. just fucking do it.

race against the clock...

in week two training for white rock. yesterday, i had my best mile EVER (13:23). today was the exact opposite. it was a struggle to simply do a 15:00 mile. yes, it was a struggle for a simple 4.1 miles an hour. :(

it got to the point where i was wishing they'd come get me because my son was crying... not so lucky.

i'd love to say that i'm SOOOO glad i did it and i feel so good hitting my goal, but i dont. my run sucked, plain and simple. i feel like a fraud even calling it a 'run'... yes, yes... i did get up to 5.5ish (maybe a tad faster, but it wasnt for long).. i took more breaks than i can count (at least 3 - i didnt just slow down, i s.t.o.p.p.e.d...)

only positive side... 767 freaking calories burned.