Down to Business

I had a great week visiting with my grandparents last week and now it's back to the grind.  All I managed last week were a few runs.

I knew the unseasonably cool weather we experienced on Wednesday morning wouldn't last but I wasn't expecting the hot and humid morning I got on Friday



If you can't tell, the only part that is dry is the bottom right of my shirt

Super weird pose, looks like I'm practicing my posing for a figure competition - Nah, I'm just trying to show you how sweaty I got:  This is nothin, it's not even summer yet ;)

Friday night I slept in a compression sleeve for my shin that has been bothering me lately...

... and woke up with some sort of rash all over my leg.  Hard to tell from the picture but it's there.  Yeah, don't think I'll be wearing that sleeve too much anymore.

Saturday I skipped my planned long run and went shopping instead.  I'm saving my loot for another post... mostly because I washed it all and most of the stuff I got is still wet.  Or still in my trunk.

Saturday afternoon I went with my parents and Rachel to an event for Rachel's sorority (I'm an alumnus).  It was super boring because I couldn't eat any of the food.  Thankfully I had stuffed my face before the event so I wasn't really jealous of everyone getting to eat but it ended up making the event seem really pointless.

At least we got a good picture out of it ;)

After the event Rachel and I went running.  Rachel has been running 3 miles a few times a week for several weeks now, a few months actually.  I've been telling her she's strong enough to increase her mileage but for some reason she didn't think she could do it.  On Tuesday we went 4 miles and she did great.  I was so proud of her!  Rachel asked me to run 4 miles with her again on Saturday. 

Now... I am not proud of what I'm about to share.  I decided at some point during the day that I was going to run 5 miles and not tell Rachel anything until we finished.  Somewhere between mile 1 and 2 Rachel had to stop because she was feeling really nauseous.  This is where I should have felt super guilty and just ran the planned 2 miles before we turned around.  Did I?  No...

At 2 miles I asked her if she could go another 1/2 mile before the turn around.  She asked "Is that how far we have to go until 2 miles?" and I lied "Yep"

On the way back we had to stop a few times for Rachel to stretch.  She was feeling really sore and her muscles were cramping up.  Oops!  I felt really guilty.  That girl doesn't have any quit in her though.  She ran the last mile or so without stopping and a lot of it was uphill. 

As soon as we finished I told her that she had just run 5 miles (the farthest she's ever run!) - she told me she hated me.

I promised never ever to do that to her again and as it turned out she was really happy that she had gone the whole 5 miles.

This week I promised myself that I would focus a little more on weight training.  I've kind of been all about running for the past several weeks and have been seriously slacking on weight training.  I miss it and after a visit with the super fit and muscular "D" on Friday (A woman I babysit for) I was really ready to get back to weightlifting.

I started off the day with stadiums with Rach

Came home, cleaned, washed and folded laundry, cleaned out a whole bunch of clothes that I never wear

And got down to business

I'm so intense my eyes glow red

Oops - you can see I'm only lifting 10s.  One day, just you watch, I'll be lifting a lot more than that.

As a matter of fact, I'm getting sick of P90X.  I like that I can do it at home whenever I want but I'm ready for more.

I'm off to teach dance.  Hope you all have a fabulous Monday!

Week of Lazy

It's only Tuesday and I feel like my whole week is turning into a "lazy" week.

Monday was President's Day - I had a whole day off.  I had zero responsibilities.  So I went on a long run and cleaned my room and finished all the painting that's been left half way done for months, right?  I wish...

I woke up about an hour and a half later than I planned to and missed stadiums.  That pretty much set the tone for the day.  I took a 3 hour nap in the middle of the afternoon, didn't do any P90X, didn't run because I was a little sore from the half marathon on Sunday, didn't teach any dance classes.  So what did I do?  Honestly, I don't even know.  This is why days off are so depressing to me.  The day just seems to fly by and I never have anything to show for myself at the end of the day.  I want a re-do!  I promise I will plan very very well and I will be so on top of things and get so much done... pretty pretty please!

This morning I did wake up in time for stadiums then I spent a few hours with Sophia.

Seriously, cutest girl ever!

I got home early and was excited to get in all of P90X plyo before dance.  I think I did about 20 minutes... and quit.  I planned to finish it when I came home (I also thought I might be able to get a run in... I am seriously delusional).  I never did get any more of plyo done.

Yeah, it's 9PM and I'm considering skipping my walk too and just crashing.  9PM is not bedtime, 9PM is not bedtime.  How many times to I have to repeat this for it to sink in?  If only that worked...

I got an email from MarathonFoto.com telling me that all of my photos from the race on Sunday were up.  This was an unexpected surprise since I was expecting them tomorrow sometime.  I was super pumped.  Then I opened up the link they sent and there was a full page of some random guy!  He finished in 1:22... I wish that was me!  His bib number was 2051, mine was 2049.  I don't know what happened or what the mixup was but I searched through all of the lost and found photos and didn't find any of me. 

I finally emailed them letting them know what happened.  Hopefully everything will get sorted out because obviously I am just dying to see all the photos of me cheesing it up for the camera, looking like I was dying (which is my natural state when I'm not aware of the cameras), or the best yet... gagging after I crossed the finish line.  I don't know if they took pictures of that or not but I'm strangely interested to see if there are any.  I can't believe thay would post something like that... but then again, if they have the photos, shouldn't they let me decide if I want them or not?

I have several photos that my parents took during the race but I'm waiting to do a post on the race - I want to include some professional photography as well :).

Tomorrow I don't have any official plans until 5:30:  Keep me accountable!  On the to-do list - get a run in, preferably a long one.  Stadiums because Rach would hurt me if we didn't get three in this week.  Some sort of P90X so I'm not behind 3 by the end of tomorrow.  Clean or at least straighten up my room.  Change sheets... it's been awhile =/.  Wash hair.  It is sad that this has to be put on a to-do list.  I.Will.Be.PRODUCTIVE!

:)

Please tell me how productive YOU have been to guilt me into being productive.  Or you could just tell me about how lazy you have been - misery loves company!

STILL?!

Hello world!

I am going on day 12 spent with this lovely cold.  We've certainly gotten close these past several days but we are not exactly on the best of terms.  On  Sunday I was a big sneezing mess.  I was convinced that this was the turning point and I would be waking up Monday morning feeling more like a real person again.  I was right, it was a turning point, unfortunately on Monday my cold took a turn for the worst (okay, not the worst, but definitely worse than things had been). 

I still managed to fit in stadiums on Monday and Wednesday but that is all that I've done active this week.  I haven't not moved this much in a very very long time.  My body is definitely not up to much but mentally I am just going stir crazy.  I haven't been really sick in a very long time and to have anything for this long is just completely out of the ordinary for me.  I just have no idea what to do with myself...

It's been an interesting couple of days that's for sure:

Monday I made it through 3 dance classes, Tuesday I made it through babysitting at which point I thought it would be a great idea to take a Benadryl before teaching two dance classes.  Oops... not  my brightest idea.  About half way through my first class I started to feel really fuzzy.  Well okay, I didn't start to feel fuzzy - now that would have been very strange.  My brain started to feel fuzzy.  I could not think to save my life.  Unfortunately that day we were working on the dance for the recital.  Now, when you're working with 3 year olds there is only so much they are able to do.  Even the simplest moves are very difficult to teach.  I had planned out what I was going to teach the girls but immediately after I taught it to them I realized it was just not going to work at all.  However, this was about when my brain completely abandoned me.  I could not think of a thing to do to rescue the situation.  I'm not sure what really went on for the rest of that class but somehow we got through.

They're so cute ;).  I don't allow them to sit on this bench during ballet class but by the time they all hopped on the bench I was too far gone to even care.

My second class was much worse.  They're a crazy bunch to begin with so I knew it was going to be a difficult class.  As soon as my helper arrived I warned her about my situation and told her she was going to have to help me out a lot during class.  Unfortunately she was not much help at all =/.

When I arrived home I went straight to bed.

Wednesday I could tell things were not improving at all but I still got out to do stadiums which surprisingly felt really great and then on my way home I got a last minute request to babysit.

Spent the day with this little cutie

It was a nice relaxing day :) Perfect - I would have died if I had to watch her three older brothers too

Believe it or not we did actually manage to get some chalk on the driveway ;)

Last night I decided that I probably have a secondary infection and that I should probably go get it checked out.  I haven't been to the doctor since the summer of 06 so this was a big step for me.  This morning I set up an appointment and sure enough I have sinusitis.  This is good news because it means they can give me something to make me better!  I have some antibiotics that I have to take for three days and then I better be better!  I am so looking forward to this thing being done with.  I'm ready for some running!!!