the battle begins

sigh.

because my great bunny friend blogged today about no self loathing i am going to be as perky and positive about this.

i seem to have a flare up of plantar fasciitis. i have no idea why? why? so frustrated. i haven't bumped up my mileage, i haven't been doing heavy speed work, i haven't changed my shoes, my current shoes only have about 100 miles on them. it is in both feet. right foot is worse. i have been icing, rolling and even caved and took ibprophen. this week i have ran less than normal even. (i am averaging 15 miles per week right now which is not much. besides pronating issues i know tight calves can be an issue and my calves are always tight. so why the flare up? why? why? why?

unsure if i will do my planned run tomorrow or not. so far i am on track for my sun run training plan. this week i even chose to run my 7 mile lsd on a hilly route and got my hill run in.got my 2 strength workouts in. one heavy weights arms and the other a tabata style workout.

what else is new? not much. kiddo is on spring break. the weather here is the pits. rain, snow (not sticking), wind, sun... that is all in an hour.  h has a hockey tournament this weekend so i am driving a ton. spent most of this afternoon at the skatepark. what do i do at the skatepark? read a book. this is what h does. he is actually really good for his age, well that is what the older kids tell me. trick scooters are what are cool here right now. some people skateboard but most scoot??? not sure if "scoot" is a cool word?

here are a couple of his youtube videos.

For H's kick ass moves click here

now i am going to go google plantar faciitis exercises.

i'm back. nothing new in the pf world of exercises. i never have actually done the picking up marbles one. i have no marbles so i used h's Mighty Beans. i can barely do it with my right foot and easy peasy with my left. can you be leg dominant? is it normal to be opposite your dominant hand? i have no clue. just thought it was odd one side was easy and the other i could barely do. 

Update

I am typing this on my phone so I apologize if you have to use your brains to figure out things that may be autocorrected. FYI, often I type I's instead of O's.

I am so nervous about my 10 k race in April. My runs have been a struggle lately and I can't imagine running a whole 1 minute per mile faster per mile without it possibly killing me.

I need to stop living in my running past. I may never be "fast" again. I am carrying around 20lbs more than when I was in my running glory. I don't spend as much time running. I expect the same results?

I am wearing compression socks right now. First time. Compression sock virgin. My legs have been so tire lately and saw them on simon's dresser and thought I would try it. Didn't wear them in the run but after. So my legs are toasty warm. Results? Unclear and unknown at this time.

Also, check out my kids video on you tube. He is patiently waiting for the number of views to go up.

Check out this video on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwHe7tT4fGA&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Sparkle

Sparkle. Razzle dazzle. Are your jazz hands waving? Well my pedicure is pretty sparkly. You may want to put some sun glasses on before you look at the photo.

Hmmm. What else is new? We are headed to Seattle for the weekend. So need the get away.

Running is going well. I have stuck to the plan mostly. Not sure if I am enjoying being on a plan again or not. Yesterday was the first time I skipped a planned run. I was just grumpy when I got home from work. Decided a night laying in bed watching trashy tv was more needed than a run. I am in a bad mood a lot lately. Did 7 miles on Monday and it felt pretty good.

home with a sicko

my son is home sick today from school with a tummy bug and bad headache. s was home this morning so i still got my spin class in before he had to leave for work. keeping my fingers crossed that i don't get it. well, my parents have it too so they asked if i could get them some milk. so i dropped off the milk at their house. as i was getting back into the car i decided to try to knock myself out with the corner of the car door.

 

nice goose egg and cut eh? i have had a tension headache in my shoulders for a couple of days now. well now my headache is in the front. maybe i should sell this as a solution to relieve tension headaches? i could make begillions!! i have also stubbed my toes several times today. i think i may be trying to kill myself?




I started my Sun Run training officially yesterday. Mondays are going to be my long run days. However, the race is a 10k so i am maxing my long runs out at 8 miles. so yesterday i did 5.25 miles in the sun. this is my run entry from dailymile.com.

beautiful day. cool. crisp. sun shinning. on the way back a coyote decided to sit in the middle of the dyke. just sitting. normally i don't care. if i approach they move. however, when i have my dog i worry. worry about how my dog will react and of course how the coyote will react. i could tell the coyote was waiting to cross the road to the airport but there was some traffic. a few minutes later it finally crosses into the field.


I always have my dog on a leash when i run. we have lots of coyotes in our area. i am so surprised with the amount of people that have their dogs off leash. especially their little yappy dogs who will go at a coyote and lose.  also this trail and area has lots of people and bikes too so people are just asking for their dogs to get hurt.

so i am eating meat again. i can't seem to get enough protein when i don't. i should rephrase that. i technically get enough protein but then i snap cause it seems only meat satisfies the craving.  i am not eating much meat but enough so i don't snap again and eat a whole safeway roasted chicken by hand.

tonight i made some soup for dinner in the crock pot. this is what i threw in the crock pot:

• ground turkey
• celery
• carrots
• 1/2 an onion
• 1 box chicken stalk
• 1/2 cup uncooked barely
• pepper
• basil
• water

i will let you know how it turns out. 

mileage

well i have been running since 2007. i did run before that a bit here and there but i started actually tracking my running properly in 2007.

mileage
2007- i can't find this anywhere

2008- 830 miles, crazy year, 3 hm and so many other races. probably too much for a first full year of running which is why...

2009 - 430 miles probably from too much the year before, i know i had my nose surgery in the summer as well as hip issues all year

2010 - 560 miles. making the come back?

2011 - 600 mileage climbing a bit. (this is 50ish miles per month)

2012 ???? i think i am going to aim for the 650-700 range. which is approx 55 miles a month which is doable. i think.

i look back at my mileage of 2008 and i am in ah. seriously. i remember loving running so much. i remember being skinny. yes SKINNY. skinny not i a great way although part of me loved it. i was down to 127lbs (now i am 145ish again, size 8ish). 127 on me is a size 2/4 and i look gaunt. i remember a 5 mile run being done with ease in 50-55 mins and being an "easy" run.

just babbling. ignore me if you wish. i have no idea where this came from or if/when it will go anywhere.

however, my life has also changed now. i have a kid who i can't force to come on every run with me in the stroller. i don't think a 6 year old would like the jogging stroller too much nor would i like to push him. my son still joins me in the good weather on his bike but even then i am limited to his stopping and starting - i wouldn't change that though. i think if i was still pushing a baby around i would run more. i can only stand so many miles on the treadmill which is probably why my mileage dips so bad in november/december and july/august (hate the heat). also those are the times of year for me that life just gets crazy.

historically my heavy mileage is january - june then tapers off.

hmmmm. nothing more to add except this picture from my run this morning. isn't it purdy out there?

 

hope that is the runway right there that tad can land a plan on. ok?

it's been over a week so i guess i should blog

so....

hmmmm.....

well i don't have much to say.

this is what i posted in dailymile.com the other day about a run.

so i had to run down to lynden to pick something up and i thought why not go for a run somewhere different (although i run in lynden in the summer sometimes when we are down camping). i love lynden. i love it's ridiculous perfectness. serious, golf course green manicured lawns, meticulously pruned plants and freshly painted homes. even today in february people were mowing their lawns to the perfect height. i feel always when i run through lynden that it must be some bylaw stating the Eminem on my ipod is illegal. it is just so American. I mean that in a good way. Movie set American.

been running lots. yeah that is about it.

have a good day.

weather wimp

i am a weather wimp. i am not afraid to admit it. today i dropped my son off at a birthday party then went to the gym. today i could have run outside. my dog would probably have appreciated it. my soul would have probably appreciated it. however, the weather wimp in me won. even while on the short drive passing a man who was easily double my age jogging and maneuvering around the icy/slushy sidewalks. it wasn't even raining. i am a weather wimp (bowing my head submissively).

well at least i did a kick butt workout at the gym. i started with 2 miles on the treadmill. my 2 miles included a 1/4 mile hill at 4-5 incline followed by a 1/4 mile recovery jog. i repeated this 3x total. with a little warm up and cool down i did 2 miles total.

i then moved onto my strength workout. i thought i would finally suck it up and use tabata timer app for my iphone i downloaded a while ago. tabata is an interval style training. 4 mins. 20 secs exercise, 10 secs rest. this website explains it in a lot more detail if you want to check it out http://tabatatraining.org/.

so this is what i did.

1st set:       pushups.                 
yeah i probably shouldn't have started this one. especially doing just pushups. i watched some videos on youtube the other night of some hardcore people doing this and i thought i was hardcore. WRONG.  after my second or third set i had to drop to my knees. by the eighth set i was doing like 3 push ups on my knees in the 20 secs. i started the first set doing 12 or 13 full push ups!

2nd set:    kettlebell swings and plank twists.
yeah i learned to alternate 2 exercises very quickly to help a bit with recovery after my experience with the push up. near the end of the 4 mins both these exercises were really hard.

3rd set:    chest flys on the bench and sit ups.  nothing to crazy but hard still.

after all this i did 20 mins of easy riding on a recumbent bike while reading a book.

the book by the way is the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Honestly i only kinda like it. not sure what the hoopla is about. probably because i don't like reading about rapes and stuff. i know weird?

besides that not a ton going on. my eating has been a bit off.

it snowed here so spent some fun times outside watching hayden sled while sneaking in a few runs myself. the dog is glaring at me cause i haven't taken him out for a long walk or run in over a week. he is glaring at me now. due to the snow i also worked more than usual this week. i haven't been really interested in the computer this week.