January 15, 2013
It's Tuesday and I've got two sick kids in the living room lying on the couches and feeling yucky. Fevers, stuffy noses, runny noses, headaches, sore throats, tummy aches - it's all at my house. I didn't feel like getting on the treadmill today but I decided to get on it and get the job done. The kids were on the couch watching TV but it was late in the afternoon and they had been on the TV long enough. I pulled out the treadmill and started her up.
I hadn't been on the treadmill in four days. On Friday I had other things going. Saturday and Sunday I had Poppy and there's no running with Poppy here. Monday I slept late and didn't get anything done. So here I am, Tuesday forcing myself to get on the treadmill. Today I put my long sleeve shirt on because it was cold in the living room. I regretted doing that shortly after I started! I liked that the long sleeve shirt kept my iPod armband from chafing my arm but it was rather warm after a while.
Today I had to stop after 1/2 a mile. I was tired and I needed to rest. I stopped the treadmill and took a drink. Then I started up again and ran another 1/2 mile. I was tired again, needed to rest. Took a drink, then started up again. I went that way for two miles. At two miles I quit. I was tired but the real reason was that my husband bought me a new laptop and it arrived today. I hooked my old computer up to the new one to transfer all my old data to my new computer before I got on the treadmill. It was almost done by the time I got on the treadmill and I knew it wouldn't take much longer to finish the transfer. That's the real reason I stopped; I wanted to play with my new computer. It's always a lot of work to set up a new computer. You have to transfer all your old data to the new one. You have to redownload all the stuff that doesn't transfer. This computer is running Windows 8 and it's going to take some figuring out. So I wanted to mess with it. So I decided that it was well within my realm of excuses to cut my run short and play with my new computer. :-)
This run was hard. I'm tired and running through the whole workout. I want to be able to run without stopping again. It is frustrating to me to have to stop. I have been thinking about whether I'm just being a wimp or it's really that I'm tired and I can't go on. I suspect my husband might say that I am.....he says run until you puke. I'm not into that, thank you very much but I do understand what he means. I know I will be back where I want to be but it's going to take time.
Here are the details; there's not many of them: I ran 2 miles, run at 5.0 MPH, the average pace was 12:00 and took 24 minutes.
Happy Running!
KEA
P.S. I HATE Windows 8!!!!!
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Where's the Disinfectant?
January 15, 2013
Everyone has been sick around here and I'm beginning to think that the same bug is getting passed around and around and around and around! It all started at Thanksgiving when my son had the stomach flu. He had that for about two days and we had to keep him upstairs away from everyone else. I went around the house and scrubbed everything down with disinfectant wipes and thought I'd gotten all the surfaces that all the kids touched. Things were fine for two or three weeks then my other son got a fever and was home from school for a day then HE threw up (all over my couch, UGH!). He was sick for about two days with the stomach flu and about four days with the fever. On the day he went back to school, the last day of school before Christmas break, my daughter came down with the stomach flu. Since she's a Type 1 Diabetic being sick isn't the same for her as it is with the boys. We have to call the endocrinologists and worry about things like Ketone levels and her blood sugar went up so we had to monitor that. It's not as easy as "go to bed and get some rest". She was sick for about two days and we made it through Christmas without any further illness. Tuesday of last week I was feeling under the weather - had a bit of lower gastrointestinal issues if you know what I mean - and now my husband's sick. He's got a fever, wicked cough and a stuffy nose. He also said he was feeling nauseated earlier in his illness. He's been sick for about four or five days now and it doesn't look he's getting any better. Saturday night Son #1 threw up......again and then last night started coughing and feeling stuffy and was up late doing homework. He's got Asperger's so being up late and feeling yucky is a recipe for a disastrous day of school so I sent him back to bed this morning and called him in to school. Then this morning at 6:30 my daughter came downstairs saying she has a headache, is stuffy and her tummy hurts. Joy, looks as thought the stomach flu just might be saying around for a while and even if it isn't, it's buddy the long lingering cold wants to put a run in. Where's the disinfectant? I need to clean house! I'm going to have to fit a run in here somewhere. I missed yesterday and Friday but right now I'm going back to take a nap and then get on what needs to be done around here to chase this flu away!
Happy Running,
KEA
Everyone has been sick around here and I'm beginning to think that the same bug is getting passed around and around and around and around! It all started at Thanksgiving when my son had the stomach flu. He had that for about two days and we had to keep him upstairs away from everyone else. I went around the house and scrubbed everything down with disinfectant wipes and thought I'd gotten all the surfaces that all the kids touched. Things were fine for two or three weeks then my other son got a fever and was home from school for a day then HE threw up (all over my couch, UGH!). He was sick for about two days with the stomach flu and about four days with the fever. On the day he went back to school, the last day of school before Christmas break, my daughter came down with the stomach flu. Since she's a Type 1 Diabetic being sick isn't the same for her as it is with the boys. We have to call the endocrinologists and worry about things like Ketone levels and her blood sugar went up so we had to monitor that. It's not as easy as "go to bed and get some rest". She was sick for about two days and we made it through Christmas without any further illness. Tuesday of last week I was feeling under the weather - had a bit of lower gastrointestinal issues if you know what I mean - and now my husband's sick. He's got a fever, wicked cough and a stuffy nose. He also said he was feeling nauseated earlier in his illness. He's been sick for about four or five days now and it doesn't look he's getting any better. Saturday night Son #1 threw up......again and then last night started coughing and feeling stuffy and was up late doing homework. He's got Asperger's so being up late and feeling yucky is a recipe for a disastrous day of school so I sent him back to bed this morning and called him in to school. Then this morning at 6:30 my daughter came downstairs saying she has a headache, is stuffy and her tummy hurts. Joy, looks as thought the stomach flu just might be saying around for a while and even if it isn't, it's buddy the long lingering cold wants to put a run in. Where's the disinfectant? I need to clean house! I'm going to have to fit a run in here somewhere. I missed yesterday and Friday but right now I'm going back to take a nap and then get on what needs to be done around here to chase this flu away!
Happy Running,
KEA
Wednesday, January 9, 2013
It's Gotta Get Better Than This!
January 9, 2013
I'm having trouble getting my thoughts together today so I'm going to apologize up front for the disjointed feeling of this blog today. I just got done with the dreaded treadmill. I will admit that I did procrastinate (I had a lively texting conversation with one of my besties) with the express intention of trying to talk myself out of getting on The Mill. Then my bestie said to me "You got this" so I had to prove her right and decided to get on there and get to it. Besides it was getting late and I did need to get it done if I was going to do it....and I really needed to. To be honest after I tied on my Mill shoes I realized that it was kind of nice outside and almost talked myself into trading my Mill shoes for my Street shoes but then I remembered why I didn't run yesterday (I think I finally came down with what the kids had been passing around since Thanksgiving and spent the day in bed and the bathroom) and decided it would be a better idea to be close to the bathroom in case I had a relapse of the runs (and not in the running kind of way if you know what I mean!) So I kept with the plan and pulled out The Mill.
Yesterday I was pretty sore and I must admit I was glad that I was too sick to run because I couldn't move without being in a bit of pain. I moved gingerly and stayed in bed (except for going to Girl Scouts; I'm co-leader and the leader had to leave the meeting for a few minutes so I needed to supervise) all day for the most part. I feel much better today, both my tummy and my legs. So I really had no excuse to not get to it.
Today I didn't seem so out of breath as I was yesterday. Yesterday I wanted to quit after two minutes. Today I felt much stronger. I wonder if that's psychological or if my brain said to my legs "Hey! I remember this....we used to do this regularly, remember? Let's go get some!" I don't care what it is I'm glad. I ran a full mile today without having to stop for a drink or to rest. At that point I stretched my legs and I'm glad I did. I did have to stop at 1.5 miles for a rest again though. I was tired and out of breath. I stopped to wipe my nose, drink some water and put on some chap stick - my lips always get so dry when I'm on The Mill - and then I was off again. I had to slow down but I only slowed down for a couple of minutes, maybe .2 of a mile because Joan Jett came on the iPod and one cannot possibly walk to Joan Jett, she's just too tough. So off I went again and ran the rest of the three miles. I walked for a couple minutes more to slow myself down and then I was done. YAY!!!!
What's interesting about this run today is not the run itself, that in and of itself was boring. The view from The Mill is boring, the running is boring and it's hard.
The view from The Mill:
As you can see, the TV is rather low and I'm too short to see over the top of The Mill enough to really get a good view of the TV while running. Plus The Mill is rather loud and I'm not big on turning the TV up to decibels that will have the neighbors calling the police.....but I've digressed.....again. Back to what was interesting about my run today. What I found interesting and completely coincidental was that today when I was completely exhausted and needed to slow down my iPod, which I put on shuffle to avoid listening in the same order (alphabetical) over and over again, played a slower song ("What Is Eternal" by the Trans-Siberian Orchestra, sung by Rob Evan whose voice is incredible and very pleasant to listen to) and I walked through this song but then when Joan Jett came on ("Do Ya Wanna Touch?") I was ready to speed it up again. How cool is that? Thanks, iPod, because of the random order of the songs I was able to find the inspiration to keep going and make it through the tough part of my workout then dig deeper and find the UMPH to get back to speed.
I'm doing better. I don't feel so run down today and I'm not coughing like I did on Monday. Maybe I was just getting sick; I don't know. I know I'm out of shape but today's run made me feel that maybe getting back in shape might not be as hard as I thought. I did look on my shoe chart today and discovered that until Monday I hadn't run since October 6, 2012. That was almost exactly three months! UGH!!!! But, that's only three months of not working out so maybe I will be back up to my old self again quickly. I certainly hope so.
Here are the details: My distance today was 3.2 miles. It took 40 minutes to do that @ 5.0 MPH for about 2.8 miles of that I would say but that's just an estimate. I walked the little bit between 2.5 and 3 miles and then walked the last .2 miles to cool down. My average pace was 12:30. Not my best, but I'm a work in progress and it's going to take time to get back up to where I want to be. No messing with incline today. I'm still out of shape. That will come later.
On a funnier note, we got a new kitten for Christmas. She wandered up to my dad's house about a month before Christmas and was so tiny they had to feed her with a dropper. We adopted her and brought her home on Christmas Eve. She is a feisty little thing and likes to play a lot. Well, Monday she was introduced to The Mill. She jumped on it when I pulled it out so I started it up @ 1.0 MPH (so she wouldn't get hurt but would learn that she really didn't want to be on it) and she jumped off but when I was running she decided that my moving feet were just the thing she wanted to play with, must've been the floppy shoelaces. I've had to stop several times to get her away and have decided that she's going to have to be shut away in another room until she's old enough to know that The Mill is no place for a kitten! I would be heartbroken, and so would the kids, if anything happened to her!
(Micah, the curious kitty, in my daddy's lap before we brought her home.)
Happy Running, with or without kittens!
KEA
I'm having trouble getting my thoughts together today so I'm going to apologize up front for the disjointed feeling of this blog today. I just got done with the dreaded treadmill. I will admit that I did procrastinate (I had a lively texting conversation with one of my besties) with the express intention of trying to talk myself out of getting on The Mill. Then my bestie said to me "You got this" so I had to prove her right and decided to get on there and get to it. Besides it was getting late and I did need to get it done if I was going to do it....and I really needed to. To be honest after I tied on my Mill shoes I realized that it was kind of nice outside and almost talked myself into trading my Mill shoes for my Street shoes but then I remembered why I didn't run yesterday (I think I finally came down with what the kids had been passing around since Thanksgiving and spent the day in bed and the bathroom) and decided it would be a better idea to be close to the bathroom in case I had a relapse of the runs (and not in the running kind of way if you know what I mean!) So I kept with the plan and pulled out The Mill.
Yesterday I was pretty sore and I must admit I was glad that I was too sick to run because I couldn't move without being in a bit of pain. I moved gingerly and stayed in bed (except for going to Girl Scouts; I'm co-leader and the leader had to leave the meeting for a few minutes so I needed to supervise) all day for the most part. I feel much better today, both my tummy and my legs. So I really had no excuse to not get to it.
Today I didn't seem so out of breath as I was yesterday. Yesterday I wanted to quit after two minutes. Today I felt much stronger. I wonder if that's psychological or if my brain said to my legs "Hey! I remember this....we used to do this regularly, remember? Let's go get some!" I don't care what it is I'm glad. I ran a full mile today without having to stop for a drink or to rest. At that point I stretched my legs and I'm glad I did. I did have to stop at 1.5 miles for a rest again though. I was tired and out of breath. I stopped to wipe my nose, drink some water and put on some chap stick - my lips always get so dry when I'm on The Mill - and then I was off again. I had to slow down but I only slowed down for a couple of minutes, maybe .2 of a mile because Joan Jett came on the iPod and one cannot possibly walk to Joan Jett, she's just too tough. So off I went again and ran the rest of the three miles. I walked for a couple minutes more to slow myself down and then I was done. YAY!!!!
What's interesting about this run today is not the run itself, that in and of itself was boring. The view from The Mill is boring, the running is boring and it's hard.
The view from The Mill:
I'm doing better. I don't feel so run down today and I'm not coughing like I did on Monday. Maybe I was just getting sick; I don't know. I know I'm out of shape but today's run made me feel that maybe getting back in shape might not be as hard as I thought. I did look on my shoe chart today and discovered that until Monday I hadn't run since October 6, 2012. That was almost exactly three months! UGH!!!! But, that's only three months of not working out so maybe I will be back up to my old self again quickly. I certainly hope so.
Here are the details: My distance today was 3.2 miles. It took 40 minutes to do that @ 5.0 MPH for about 2.8 miles of that I would say but that's just an estimate. I walked the little bit between 2.5 and 3 miles and then walked the last .2 miles to cool down. My average pace was 12:30. Not my best, but I'm a work in progress and it's going to take time to get back up to where I want to be. No messing with incline today. I'm still out of shape. That will come later.
On a funnier note, we got a new kitten for Christmas. She wandered up to my dad's house about a month before Christmas and was so tiny they had to feed her with a dropper. We adopted her and brought her home on Christmas Eve. She is a feisty little thing and likes to play a lot. Well, Monday she was introduced to The Mill. She jumped on it when I pulled it out so I started it up @ 1.0 MPH (so she wouldn't get hurt but would learn that she really didn't want to be on it) and she jumped off but when I was running she decided that my moving feet were just the thing she wanted to play with, must've been the floppy shoelaces. I've had to stop several times to get her away and have decided that she's going to have to be shut away in another room until she's old enough to know that The Mill is no place for a kitten! I would be heartbroken, and so would the kids, if anything happened to her!
Happy Running, with or without kittens!
KEA
Monday, January 7, 2013
New Year's Resolution
January 7, 2013
Well, it's that time of year again.....the time of year when we all decide to make changes in our lives and we try for a few weeks, some of us make it. Like so many other people I made my New Year's Resolution and of course it had to have something to do with running. Truth is, I'm so out of shape and my new jeans are getting to the point where they don't fit. Something had to be done and I know just what to do.
I couldn't start on January 1st because I had my granddaughter and I wanted to start at the beginning of the week. I've decided that my new running schedule will be Monday - Friday with Saturday and Sunday off. This is because I usually have my granddaughter on weekends and it is very difficult to run with her. She is now nine months old and she is extremely mobile. I don't want her getting hurt and when it gets warmer I'll be running outside. She wasn't too keen on running in the stroller the one time we tried it and I'm not sure I want to mess with it anyway. It's best to just work my running schedule around my time with Poppy. :-)
Today I had to hit the dreaded treadmill. As if it's not bad enough that I'm so out of shape that it was going to be difficult to start up again, on top of that, I have to run on the treadmill. YUCK!!!! Here's the conversation I had with the treadmill before I got on it: "Hello Old Friend. Are you ready to kill me? Well, okay then, bring it on, Bitch!" (Normally I try really hard not to say those kinds of words, but if you've read me regularly you know how I feel about the treadmill....it seemed kind of appropriate. Besides, Bitch did try to kill me today, so, all's fair, right?) I decided I was going to put it up at 5.0 MPH and go with it. It was rough. No, it was ROUGH! I wasn't even running for two minutes and I wanted to get off. UGH!!! I ran thinking if there was ever a time for all those mind games I play with myself, it was now. And I used them all. The first trick I used was the wait for water trick. I gave myself half a mile, then I stopped to rest and have a drink of water. That worked pretty well until I started feeling tired. Then it I had to start the counting trick. I counted minutes and tenths of a mile until I could stop to rest. I made it to two miles that way. By then I was exhausted and I didn't want to go anymore but I really wanted to go for three miles so I slowed it down and walked at 3.6 MPH for about half a mile. By then I was pretty well done with the whole experience and I had rested a little bit so I kicked it back up to 5.0 MPH and ran for the last 1/2 mile.
I could say "Wow, it's amazing how quickly you can get out of shape" but it's been a really long time since I've run. I haven't run since the last 5k which I think was in late September or early October. I can't even remember when it was....that's how long it's been since I ran! So, really I have no excuse and I know I'm out of shape. I'm hoping that it won't take very long to get back in the swing and I'll be running 5k distance in no time. I certainly hope so because this having to stop and rest really sux! I've also got that silly tickle in the back of my throat, you know, the one that you get after you've been breathing hard and then you have to cough. YUCK! I feel pretty out of shape and mentally beat up. I'm ready for tomorrow though. As I said earlier, Bring it on, Bitch!
On a side note, I really like the Addidas Duramo on the mill. I didn't like them on the street but I really like them on the mill. I put new arch supports in them and my knees didn't hurt. That makes me happy. I'm also happy that I found a home for these shoes. I hated that I spent money on them then didn't like them. Now they won't be wasted. YAY!!!
Here's the details: I did 3.043 miles on the mill. Average pace was 12:49. 2.5 miles was run at 5.0 MPH and 1/2 mile was walked at 3.6 MPH. My time was 39:01 minutes and I had to stop and rest every 1/2 mile so time involved was probably more like 45:00. My treadmill doesn't keep going when I stop to rest like my Garmin does.
Happy Running!
KEA
Well, it's that time of year again.....the time of year when we all decide to make changes in our lives and we try for a few weeks, some of us make it. Like so many other people I made my New Year's Resolution and of course it had to have something to do with running. Truth is, I'm so out of shape and my new jeans are getting to the point where they don't fit. Something had to be done and I know just what to do.
I couldn't start on January 1st because I had my granddaughter and I wanted to start at the beginning of the week. I've decided that my new running schedule will be Monday - Friday with Saturday and Sunday off. This is because I usually have my granddaughter on weekends and it is very difficult to run with her. She is now nine months old and she is extremely mobile. I don't want her getting hurt and when it gets warmer I'll be running outside. She wasn't too keen on running in the stroller the one time we tried it and I'm not sure I want to mess with it anyway. It's best to just work my running schedule around my time with Poppy. :-)
Today I had to hit the dreaded treadmill. As if it's not bad enough that I'm so out of shape that it was going to be difficult to start up again, on top of that, I have to run on the treadmill. YUCK!!!! Here's the conversation I had with the treadmill before I got on it: "Hello Old Friend. Are you ready to kill me? Well, okay then, bring it on, Bitch!" (Normally I try really hard not to say those kinds of words, but if you've read me regularly you know how I feel about the treadmill....it seemed kind of appropriate. Besides, Bitch did try to kill me today, so, all's fair, right?) I decided I was going to put it up at 5.0 MPH and go with it. It was rough. No, it was ROUGH! I wasn't even running for two minutes and I wanted to get off. UGH!!! I ran thinking if there was ever a time for all those mind games I play with myself, it was now. And I used them all. The first trick I used was the wait for water trick. I gave myself half a mile, then I stopped to rest and have a drink of water. That worked pretty well until I started feeling tired. Then it I had to start the counting trick. I counted minutes and tenths of a mile until I could stop to rest. I made it to two miles that way. By then I was exhausted and I didn't want to go anymore but I really wanted to go for three miles so I slowed it down and walked at 3.6 MPH for about half a mile. By then I was pretty well done with the whole experience and I had rested a little bit so I kicked it back up to 5.0 MPH and ran for the last 1/2 mile.
I could say "Wow, it's amazing how quickly you can get out of shape" but it's been a really long time since I've run. I haven't run since the last 5k which I think was in late September or early October. I can't even remember when it was....that's how long it's been since I ran! So, really I have no excuse and I know I'm out of shape. I'm hoping that it won't take very long to get back in the swing and I'll be running 5k distance in no time. I certainly hope so because this having to stop and rest really sux! I've also got that silly tickle in the back of my throat, you know, the one that you get after you've been breathing hard and then you have to cough. YUCK! I feel pretty out of shape and mentally beat up. I'm ready for tomorrow though. As I said earlier, Bring it on, Bitch!
On a side note, I really like the Addidas Duramo on the mill. I didn't like them on the street but I really like them on the mill. I put new arch supports in them and my knees didn't hurt. That makes me happy. I'm also happy that I found a home for these shoes. I hated that I spent money on them then didn't like them. Now they won't be wasted. YAY!!!
Here's the details: I did 3.043 miles on the mill. Average pace was 12:49. 2.5 miles was run at 5.0 MPH and 1/2 mile was walked at 3.6 MPH. My time was 39:01 minutes and I had to stop and rest every 1/2 mile so time involved was probably more like 45:00. My treadmill doesn't keep going when I stop to rest like my Garmin does.
Happy Running!
KEA
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