Insanity - day 2. Plyo track.
My lower body kills right now.
This is the beginning of a beautiful relationship.
It’s my first week back at hard core training, and I’m beat.
Running and swimming (when I’m not a swimmer, mind you) with a lot of drama going on in my life.
Hubs told the people he needed to tell, so I can say it here. His plant is closing within a week or two, and we aren’t sure what that means for him. There is talk of relocation, of staying, of a lot of things. It’s not exactly copacetic.
Dad is going into surgery on Monday. Given his history, this is major and scary. They have a crash team on standby.
Good news is I am going to have another niece to dote upon. She’ll be born sometime in September, and I’m registered and paid for the Never Quit Never Trident. I’m really pouring my energies into running and whatnot because it’s what I can control and have power over. But I’m not 100% there mentally.
But at least I’m still getting miles in.
I freaking love this playlist… http://www.playlist.com/playlist/22620949003#
Anyway, I’m supposed to be updating my quicken and being responsible and getting my shit together, but instead I’m blogging, jamming out to music and editing my manuscript.
OOOooh! AFI just came on! :)
Seriously though. I’m getting back into running after having almost three weeks off sans the LA Race thanks to vacation, then being sick. It’s hard to get back into the swing of things and my body is sore and tired but it’s a good feeling.
Plus I just got the Insanity dvd’s and I’m super stoked to try those out soon.
I don’t have any races for May scheduled because we have so much other stuff going on, but that gives me time to train for the NQN and the other races I do have myself signed up for. I need to swim and I need to paddle.
I’m in the process of working out a workout regime for May, that will work with our vacation over memorial day for the race in Charlotte. Kat told me that our bridge that has been closed for fucking ever has finally opened up and that excites me because that means we can do long runs by her and actually go over our said bridge instead of back tracking. Yayness. Also, Tiffany is a new friend and running buddy and she lives downtown so I have a built in bridge runner now! She’s fab.
Personal life things are kind of chaotic right now, but if I can stay positive things will work out right?
Sigh.
She Runs LA pics
5k time 34:08
10k time 1:15:14
This run was hard. I’m not used to the different weather or the hills, but overall I felt pretty good. My quad din’t really hurt till much later toward the end of the race. And it only hurt because I’m an idiot and jumped while hiking Runyon and hurt my leg. No me gusta.
Amber did the race too, but she mostly power walked. She finished in about 1:40ish.
we had fun! :)
New York City Marathon. Hoping I get picked!
I’ve never done a marathon, but I think I’d like to do it once!
The Goofy Challenge
I want to do this one too!!
Ironman World Championship, Kailua-Kona, Hawaii
When I was in Kona, I read all about their Ironman. It sounds exciting!!
Sooo many. Right now is probably the Big Sur Marathon just because I miss California.
Another marathon! Do I need to start training for one now? :)
I am making one for myself. What is your dream race?
There are 11,000 acres burning in Columbia County that is blanketing Jacksonville in smoke thanks to the wind. As I sit here in my edit bay, I can smell the smoke. It is layered over us like a fog; super thick and making it hard to see things in front of us. Breaking is hard, eyes are burning, and I feel a migraine coming on.
Needless to say, running outside in this crap is a negative ghostrider.
Allegedly, part of this fire was started when a camp fire got out of control. On Sunday, it was just 150 acres. Now it’s 11,000. Being that we are in the “dry time” where we hardly get any rain whatsoever, it’s no real surprise that it flared up so quickly.
This kind of smoke makes your throat and eyes burn, makes breathing super hard, and makes life just unpleasant. And running in it makes life incredibly worse.
I despise running on the treadmill, but I’ll do it if I need to.
So this is the map for the Never Quit Never Trident that I want to do solo this year.
5k first, then the swim, then the paddle. Here’s the thing: I don’t swim well and I have never done the paddle before. This one is at 7:30am, along with the first 5k.
The second 5k is at 9am.
Female finishers get a necklace. The blue one is for the Trident. The other two are for the 5k’s, and we don’t know which will have which. Or we can get a sea turtle pendant which is what we had last year. The guys get a pair of awesome sunglasses. Any female who signs up 3 people, and who reference that person, gets a pair too. (I have already signed 3 people up! woohoo!!)
So, yeah. Who else wants to sign up for this fantastic event?
Reblogged from the-runner-diaries
Yesterday, before I could really start my shopping spree, we got a call from one of my dad’s clients (he does taxes) saying that he’s having chest pains and that we needed to come home. We turned around right away and I forgot about everything else and focused on getting Dad to the hospital and whatnot. We spent the early part of the day at the hospital, waiting on results from tests to prove it wasn’t a heart attack or anything serious. We had lunch at the hospital…I had a salad with lite ranch dressing and some fries….I then went to work and did my work thing, at cupcakes and sushi.
I didn’t run.
Today, I am kind of thinking of blowing off my run to go and hang out with my SIL and brother who are at my parents house right now. My brother is taking care of my Dad’s clients that couldn’t reschedule (Jacob does taxes too) and Amber is hanging out with my niece…probably bored. I just got off the phone with my Mom and she is headed to the hospital to sit with Dad as he gets his stress test done.
On one hand, it’s family and it’s important and sometimes these things become way more important than running. On the other hand…there is nothing we can do but sit and wait so why not go for a short 3 mile run like I had planned?
And just now my sister texted me asking how my Dad is because she lives in Orlando and not Jacksonville.
This guilt for not running is kind of kicking my ass, but family first. I can always try to run on my dinner break.
Or do 5 tomorrow instead of 3.
