5/21/13

My hip is still painful, but not as much. Last night I went for a very slow 2.5 miles (12 min. miles) I don't feel any worse for the wear today. I did sit on ice for 20 min. last night and enjoyed a beer. I can't believe how badly this sprain feels!! Now I am just trying to regulate my running and dieting so I can see some pounds shed.  This has been my mantra for almost 2 years now...ugh.

1/2 marathon..2 days later

OMG. My body is sore!! The 1/2 went well. Not sure if I'm ready to call that "fun" but it was a huge accomplishment. I didn't stop at all to walk. I did stop for a quick sip of water when the stands were available, but that is it for any type of rest and I don't really consider 3 seconds a rest. I finished the run in exactly 2:16:49. Mile 10 started to hurt, by mile 11 my shoulders were hurting like hell and at mile 12 my glut medius strain was feeling the burn. I wanted to lay down and die, but I kept going. We drove back home that day and I think that is where things went very wrong, I was so stoved up in the car for 4 hrs. that by the time we were home I could barely walk from my right sided glut. I still have a an ache and limp today. I am hoping it all goes away by the next couple of days so I can get back out and run 3 miles. I am soooo looking forward to small runs again :)

1/2 marathon eve

I am very excited about my 1/2 marathon tomorrow! I started carbing up yesterday and took yesterday off from any type of exercise. Monday and Wednesday I ran 5ks. My hip started hurting a few days ago and yesterday my PT I work with looked at it and determined it's not actually my hip but I have a sprained glut medius so she stretched it out and gave ultrasounded it. It feels much better this morning. I was able to get out of bed without any pain :) My goals tomorrow are to not stop, at all, no matter what, other than when I take my water and I want to keep my pace under 11 min. mile. I am hoping for 10 to 10 1/2 min. miles the entire way through.

My weight is up 142.3 which is a pisser. Phase 1 will be back on w/ my diet starting Sunday which means I'm going to enjoy my carbs today because they will be a no no on Sunday. I will admit I am really looking forward to going back to my old routine and just getting to run 3 miles every night without those really long double digit miles. It takes so much time after work to get that in as well as family time, dinner ect ect.

I will be posting my results my Monday.  Here's to a great weekend!!

5/3/13

Weight 139.9

Last night I put in just over 10 miles around town. I am having a major problem shrugging my shoulders when I run and my shoulder could barely move by the time I was done. It is frustrating to say the least. On the up side, the run was great and my endurance was high. If not for the shoulder I could have kept running. My PT I work with gave me some exercises to do for the next week and hopefully it will calm down. For the next week I will just be running short runs and then in one week and one day I have my first big 1/2 marathon!! I am excited.

This weekend I am headed to Roseburg for a wine tour. I can't wait. Maybe all that wine will relax my shoulder muscle :)

4/30/13

Weight 143.3

Let's start with the weight number. It is not making sense. Two days ago my scales said 136.6, yesterday was 138 and then today is a huge jump. I am changing the batteries in the scale to make sure it's not a glitch. I did have a large lunch yesterday and a large dinner. Yesterday was my 38th birthday so work bought my Thai food...red curry w/ noodles and vegetables with 1/2 of a papaya salad and then my wonderful husband bbq'd me pork ribs, fried potatoes and peppers stuffed w/ cream cheese wrapped with ham and I did have a LOT of wine. So the scales may not be wrong, but I doubt they are accurate for how much a truly weigh. It's probably more of a salt retention, huge meal day type of thing. I haven't ran for almost a week. Bad I know, but we were busy last week with upcoming company coming for the weekend. Tonight I am running 5 miles, Thursday is another 10 or 12 mile day, then I take off for the weekend for a wine tour in Roseburg with some girlfriends. Next week I will run at least one more double digit number and then that Saturday will be my big 1/2 marathon race! I am excited but I am also ready to be done with the double digit runs. I would prefer to just enjoy getting to run 3-4 miles every night and not stressing my body out. I will continue to post my weight this week to see how that number does. As I am typing I can feel the swelling in all of my fingers...so I am pretty sure the weight is reflecting something called salt retention and tomorrow all will be fine. Fingers crossed!

4/20/13

Weight: 138.8

My last run was 3 miles of speed work. I ran the straight stretch on the track hard and then slow jogged the corners. My average pace ended up being 8:59 mile. My running partner went on a run by herself last wk and ran 5 miles at a pace of 8:45 so I am slowing her down tremendously when we go together. I will continue to work on building up my speed!

4/16/13

Weight 138.4

Sunday I made a milestone and ran 10 miles at a pace of 10 min per mile. I was very pleased with that!! Then Monday I went for a quick 3 mile run at a pace of 9.30.

Diet is going well. Same as usual. Last night I made turkey meatballs w/ chili sauce as a glaze. Yummy!!