5/18/13
Had to get this run in really quick. We are moving to another state and there are lots of things to take care of and lots of traveling in between now and when we move. We just purchased a house where we are moving so there is a lot of back and forth right now. Today I needed to get a quick run in before I left. I had to take my husband's son to meet my husband so they could meet my husband's son's mother for the son's summer visit. Confusing? Well, yes, sort of. It would be a lot easier if I said my son but that wouldn't be completely accurate....and I know not much of this is making sense because I've had a bit too much to drink and it's very late. So....let's just cut to the chase and talk about the run, shall we?
Today's run was pretty good. I knew I needed to get a run in and I debated the whole time just how long I'd spend on The Mill. I ended up doing a 1.5 mile run which is what I've stuck to this week with a .5 mile cool down....sort of. I started out thinking I might actually do a full 2 mile run. I've got a 5k coming up on June 8th and I'm a bit nervous since I'm so out of shape. It's getting late in the month and I don't have much time left for training so I really need to kick it up a notch and I'm afraid I won't be able to run a full 5k by the time it comes around. So while I was debating this on The Mill I was running and gauging just how I felt. It doesn't look promising, Folks, and I'm very upset with myself. I should've started this sooner, but it is what it is and I have to accept it for that. What will be will be and if I have to walk some, so be it. I can say this with little disappointment tonight because I've had a bottle of wine and I'm feeling rather numb tonight.
So....anyway....I've not talked much about the run itself and I don't think I'm going to. I'll just give the details and be done. Today's run was a quick one. I needed to get a run in before we left town because I felt I needed to work on my training despite everything else that needed to be done to prepare to leave.
I ran 1.5 @ 5 MPH for a pace of 12:00. Then I did .5 mile @ 3.6 for a pace of 16:40 although at the end I kicked it up to *gulp* 6.0 MPH.....Billy Idol came on the iPod and I don't know about you, but I just can't walk to Billy Idol...besides at that point I was done with the whole workout thing and wanted to be done so I kicked it up way more than a notch. The whole run took 24 minutes, was uneventful and unremarkable (although I guess by blogging about it I am remarking, LOL!) I guess I could say more, but I'm typing this two days later (it's 2:34 on Sunday when the run was actually done on Saturday around 11:00 in the morning....) and I've had too much to drink and I really need to be in bed so if you're expecting prose, sorry, no can do tonight.
Having said that, I'm gonna pack it in and head to bed. Tomorrow starts a new training week and I'm gonna have a bottle wine to run off tomorrow!
Happy Running (and cheers),
KEA
Monday, May 20, 2013
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
And We Are Off and Running.....Pun Indended!
May 15, 2013
Day two of training and today was a bit easier. Today I was on the treadmill again. I very briefly toyed with the idea of running outside but I was pretty sure I am not ready for the hills yet since I only started back up again Monday. Maybe that's me being a wimp and I should reconsider. If I tackle the hills now I don't have to tackle them later. That's something to think about and I will have to consider it long and hard tonight during my quiet time after the kids have gone to bed.
So....today I was on THE MILL. UGH! Have I mentioned how much I hate THE MILL? I suppose I have. However, today I have guilt about saying how much I hate The Mill. Today we meshed rather well if I do say so myself! We kind of had an agreement. I wouldn't detest him today if he wouldn't try to kill me. It seemed to work out well. Of course today I had the help of Cameo, Ricky Martin, The Trans Siberian Orchestra, Bon Jovi, and Billy Idol. They kept me company rather well and helped speed the time along. I really must make a new play list. I get bored with the same ones. The good thing about stopping running for a while (the ONLY good thing about it) is that when you put your headphones on and jam to your play list the songs are all fresh. After you've run for a while you are listening to the same stuff over and over and over again and it gets stale and you get bored an unmotivated. I say this after considering that I have well over a thousand songs on my iPod, LOL! At any rate, yes, you do get bored.....even with thousands of songs! I word in my defense though, I make playlists because obviously some songs are better for running than others. I mean, who wants to run to Cyndi Lauper's "Time After Time"? Anyone? Didn't think so! So, anyway, my songs are fresh and that makes it a little less boring.
Today's run was quite a bit better than Monday's. I felt better and I wasn't out of breath as bad. Today I focused quite a bit on my breathing because I did feel like I was breathing much to hard Monday. I also had quite a cough after I got off The Mill on Monday. I coughed all afternoon which is very strange because I didn't have a cold. I have found that after a run, if I haven't run in a while, I develop a cough. How strange. I will have to look that up on the internet. I'm digressing again though. Today's run was better. I was focusing on breathing. I took deep breaths in and deep breaths out. I tried to breath slowly and evenly so as to not become out of breath. It seemed to work. I'm not sure if it was my breathing technique or that my body remembers running but it felt better. I will continue to experiment with this breathing technique over the next few days. It felt good.
Today I did seem to wear out at first but as I ran I felt better. During the first few minutes I wanted to stop. My body kept saying "I'm tired. I don't want to run." like my kids when they are being whiney and petulant. I kept at it though and was able to get through my personal goal for today. Today's goal was again to run 1.5 miles. I know that's not very much but I'm trying to work myself up to the 5k and if I set out to run a full 3.1 miles I would fail. I'm that out of shape. I don't want to set myself up for failure and then quitting so I start my goals small and work up. I should be running a full 5k by the middle of next week if today's training is evidence of how quickly I can recover my running legs. Also this week I'm only running every other day. Next week I will kick it up and run every day except weekends. Saturday and Sunday will be my rest days. I will be busy those days with my granddaughter and I need time to recover.
As far as runs goes, this one was okay to good. I had to stop at the 1/2 mile intervals to take a drink. That's okay. Next week I will be better, stopping at the mile marks to get a drink. As my strength increases my endurance will as well and I will be able to go farther between stops. This is my goal for next week. :-)
Here's the details: I ran 1.5 miles @ 5.0 MPH for a pace of 12:00. It took 18 minutes to complete this run. I followed this up with 0.5 mile walking cool down @ 3.6 MPH for a pace of 16:40. It took 8 minutes and 20 seconds to walk this.
I'm quite content with this run today even though it was on the treadmill. I still like my Addidas Duramo's for The Mill. My Addidas Marathon 10's are feeling a little jealous. Sometimes I think I can hear them calling to me begging to get out of their box and go, LOL! Patience, my dear Marathon 10's. They are still my favorites but I did buy these Duramo's and I feel like since I spent so much money on them I need to use them. Besides, they feel good on The Mill so that's a good place to wear them.
On to the next run!!!!
Happy Running!
KEA
P.S. As I said on Monday, I will be posting the link so anyone who is interested can donate to the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure 5k. This cause is very important to me and I am asking everyone to please be generous and donate, even if it's just a small amount. Even a small amount can help women who don't have insurance obtain a mammogram and treatment for breast cancer. Please donate to help: http://www.komenstlouis.org/site/TR/Race/General?px=1542226&pg=personal&fr_id=1150
Thank you!
Day two of training and today was a bit easier. Today I was on the treadmill again. I very briefly toyed with the idea of running outside but I was pretty sure I am not ready for the hills yet since I only started back up again Monday. Maybe that's me being a wimp and I should reconsider. If I tackle the hills now I don't have to tackle them later. That's something to think about and I will have to consider it long and hard tonight during my quiet time after the kids have gone to bed.
So....today I was on THE MILL. UGH! Have I mentioned how much I hate THE MILL? I suppose I have. However, today I have guilt about saying how much I hate The Mill. Today we meshed rather well if I do say so myself! We kind of had an agreement. I wouldn't detest him today if he wouldn't try to kill me. It seemed to work out well. Of course today I had the help of Cameo, Ricky Martin, The Trans Siberian Orchestra, Bon Jovi, and Billy Idol. They kept me company rather well and helped speed the time along. I really must make a new play list. I get bored with the same ones. The good thing about stopping running for a while (the ONLY good thing about it) is that when you put your headphones on and jam to your play list the songs are all fresh. After you've run for a while you are listening to the same stuff over and over and over again and it gets stale and you get bored an unmotivated. I say this after considering that I have well over a thousand songs on my iPod, LOL! At any rate, yes, you do get bored.....even with thousands of songs! I word in my defense though, I make playlists because obviously some songs are better for running than others. I mean, who wants to run to Cyndi Lauper's "Time After Time"? Anyone? Didn't think so! So, anyway, my songs are fresh and that makes it a little less boring.
Today's run was quite a bit better than Monday's. I felt better and I wasn't out of breath as bad. Today I focused quite a bit on my breathing because I did feel like I was breathing much to hard Monday. I also had quite a cough after I got off The Mill on Monday. I coughed all afternoon which is very strange because I didn't have a cold. I have found that after a run, if I haven't run in a while, I develop a cough. How strange. I will have to look that up on the internet. I'm digressing again though. Today's run was better. I was focusing on breathing. I took deep breaths in and deep breaths out. I tried to breath slowly and evenly so as to not become out of breath. It seemed to work. I'm not sure if it was my breathing technique or that my body remembers running but it felt better. I will continue to experiment with this breathing technique over the next few days. It felt good.
Today I did seem to wear out at first but as I ran I felt better. During the first few minutes I wanted to stop. My body kept saying "I'm tired. I don't want to run." like my kids when they are being whiney and petulant. I kept at it though and was able to get through my personal goal for today. Today's goal was again to run 1.5 miles. I know that's not very much but I'm trying to work myself up to the 5k and if I set out to run a full 3.1 miles I would fail. I'm that out of shape. I don't want to set myself up for failure and then quitting so I start my goals small and work up. I should be running a full 5k by the middle of next week if today's training is evidence of how quickly I can recover my running legs. Also this week I'm only running every other day. Next week I will kick it up and run every day except weekends. Saturday and Sunday will be my rest days. I will be busy those days with my granddaughter and I need time to recover.
As far as runs goes, this one was okay to good. I had to stop at the 1/2 mile intervals to take a drink. That's okay. Next week I will be better, stopping at the mile marks to get a drink. As my strength increases my endurance will as well and I will be able to go farther between stops. This is my goal for next week. :-)
Here's the details: I ran 1.5 miles @ 5.0 MPH for a pace of 12:00. It took 18 minutes to complete this run. I followed this up with 0.5 mile walking cool down @ 3.6 MPH for a pace of 16:40. It took 8 minutes and 20 seconds to walk this.
I'm quite content with this run today even though it was on the treadmill. I still like my Addidas Duramo's for The Mill. My Addidas Marathon 10's are feeling a little jealous. Sometimes I think I can hear them calling to me begging to get out of their box and go, LOL! Patience, my dear Marathon 10's. They are still my favorites but I did buy these Duramo's and I feel like since I spent so much money on them I need to use them. Besides, they feel good on The Mill so that's a good place to wear them.
On to the next run!!!!
Happy Running!
KEA
P.S. As I said on Monday, I will be posting the link so anyone who is interested can donate to the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure 5k. This cause is very important to me and I am asking everyone to please be generous and donate, even if it's just a small amount. Even a small amount can help women who don't have insurance obtain a mammogram and treatment for breast cancer. Please donate to help: http://www.komenstlouis.org/site/TR/Race/General?px=1542226&pg=personal&fr_id=1150
Thank you!
Monday, May 13, 2013
Short Sweet and To the Point
5/13/13
Okay....so once again, I know it's been a while....As a matter of fact, I looked on my shoe chart and it's been since March 25th since I've been on the treadmill. UGH!!!!! But, I registered for the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure 5k and it's on June 15th so I have to get back in shape. I'm also seriously considering running the Color Blaze 5k on June 8th in my hometown so I really need to get back in shape because that one's less than a month to prepare. So, let's just cut to the chase, this hurt! And, I didn't run very long.
I started this run this afternoon with the intention of running a short distance. I knew it had been a long time since I'd run so I knew it would be difficult. In order to save myself all kinds of guilt and frustration I intentionally decided to do a short run to start with. I will be doing this until I get my running legs (and my running lungs) back. Today's run was 1.5 miles but I was interrupted just as I was starting. The school called and I had to stop and take my son his inhaler. No big deal; it's just about five minutes to the school and it gave me a little break. Cheating? Yes, of course, but this is day one and I've been off for a while. Anyway, this run went smooth. Not much to talk about except that it hurt and it was on The Mill which as you all know, I HATE.
Short run so here's the details: 1.5 miles @ 5 MPH for a pace of 12:00. It took 18 minutes. Boring, boring, boring....but necessary.
As I said, I am running the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure 5k. This year I will be including in each of my blogs the link to donate. This cause is extremely important to me so I want to raise as much money as possible for this cause.
Happy Running!
KEA
http://www.komenstlouis.org/site/TR/Race/General?px=1542226&pg=personal&fr_id=1150
Okay....so once again, I know it's been a while....As a matter of fact, I looked on my shoe chart and it's been since March 25th since I've been on the treadmill. UGH!!!!! But, I registered for the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure 5k and it's on June 15th so I have to get back in shape. I'm also seriously considering running the Color Blaze 5k on June 8th in my hometown so I really need to get back in shape because that one's less than a month to prepare. So, let's just cut to the chase, this hurt! And, I didn't run very long.
I started this run this afternoon with the intention of running a short distance. I knew it had been a long time since I'd run so I knew it would be difficult. In order to save myself all kinds of guilt and frustration I intentionally decided to do a short run to start with. I will be doing this until I get my running legs (and my running lungs) back. Today's run was 1.5 miles but I was interrupted just as I was starting. The school called and I had to stop and take my son his inhaler. No big deal; it's just about five minutes to the school and it gave me a little break. Cheating? Yes, of course, but this is day one and I've been off for a while. Anyway, this run went smooth. Not much to talk about except that it hurt and it was on The Mill which as you all know, I HATE.
Short run so here's the details: 1.5 miles @ 5 MPH for a pace of 12:00. It took 18 minutes. Boring, boring, boring....but necessary.
As I said, I am running the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure 5k. This year I will be including in each of my blogs the link to donate. This cause is extremely important to me so I want to raise as much money as possible for this cause.
Happy Running!
KEA
http://www.komenstlouis.org/site/TR/Race/General?px=1542226&pg=personal&fr_id=1150
Monday, March 25, 2013
Darn Thing Tried to Kill Me.....Again!
March 25, 2013
Well, so much for New Year's Resolutions. Here it is the end of March (and incidentally today is my oldest daughter's birthday) and I can't even tell you the last time I got on the treadmill. Actually, yes I can. It was today, ha, ha, ha!!! DUH! That's the whole reason for this blog! LOL! Anyway, so much for resolutions. I feel really crappy for not sticking with my New Year's Resolution. I've gained weight instead of losing it. I've got no energy and I sleep all the time. Well, that's gotta change and today was the day we started.
I have the house to myself so after I dragged myself out of the bed - have I mentioned that my bed is the most comfortable place in the whole world? No? Well, my bed is the most comfortable place in the world! No wonder I want to sleep so much! Anyway, I dragged myself out of bed and while I was in the bathroom I decided that I would start today to get back in shape. A month ago I was talking to an old friend who wants me to come visit her in North Carolina. She said a friend of hers has been after her to run a 5k. She and I got to talking and we decided that we would run one together. We decided on the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure and we were going to run it in North Carolina. She wants me to come visit her so she can have a Paparazzi party. Paparazzi is a brand of $5 jewelry that I sell. You can check it out at www.paparazzibykarley.weebly.com if you want to see what it's all about. It's affordable quality jewelry, really cute stuff, go see for yourself. And I've digressed again....so my friend wants to have a party so we agreed I'd come visit her and we'd have a party and run a race all in the same weekend. I also am running the same race in two other places. I will only fund raise for one. So, the first race was supposed to be May 4th in North Carolina but my kids have state solo contest on that day so I have to cancel that one and we have to find another one to run together. Nevertheless, I decided it was time to get back in shape.
So, I got my stuff together and headed to the living room to face my Nemesis. I started out at 5.0 MPH because this is my regular running rate. After the first few steps I was grinning. I LOVE running. How could I ever stop this? Why do I continue to do this to myself? I know I LOVE to run so why do I stop? UGH!!! But, this was hard. I had to stop after 1/2 mile and catch my breath. I did some stretching and rested then started up again. I had to stop again after another 1/2 mile but I kept my rate at 5 MPH. I ran a little over 1.5 miles for a total of 20 minutes. I spent the rest of my time on the treadmill walking and working my arms a little. I'm a little disturbed at the flabbiness of my triceps. It's rather disgusting and I need to tighten up. I plan to add an aerobic workout with weights to my routine since this is about getting back in shape. I used to be in very good shape when I was 22. When I had my first child, I was able to get back in size 4 jeans the day I went home from the hospital. That's right....be jealous. Now, I don't know if I'll ever see a size 4 again, but I'm hoping that one day I might and I know being in my forties, it might not be an attainable goal but I think it is so secretly it's what I'm working toward and I plan to achieve it. Watch me go and when I achieve it I will post a picture of myself in size 4 jeans. Yes, yes, I will!
Anyway....so this one is self explanatory. 1.638 miles @ 5 MPH and another .6333 miles at 3.8 MPH. It took 30 minutes total (which is why the numbers are odd, today I went for time not distance) with me running @ 5 MPH for 20 minutes and walking @ 3.8 for 10 minutes for a total of 30 minutes. I don't know my pace because I messed my treadmill up when I was resting. I accidentally leaned my head against the buttons and set my treadmill for the 10,000 steps program so I had to take the little magnet thing off which resets the treadmill. So, I don't know my pace.....I do know that running at 5 MPH has a pace of 12:00 and walking at 3.8 has a pace of 15:47. I'm too tired to think about the math to figure out overall pace and my running site didn't do it for me for some reason. Uber sadness.....oh well....I can live without my pace for today. Okay, so I lied, I cannot. I just now searched the net and found a pace calculator. It turns out that my pace was 13:13. So there we go. Once again here are the details (or as Kenzi on "Lost Girl" would say the Detz): I went for 2.271 miles with 1.638 of that @ 5 MPH and .6333 @ 3.8 MPH for a total pace of 13:13.
Tomorrow's another day and I've got new goals; training is back in session!
Happy Running!
KEA
Well, so much for New Year's Resolutions. Here it is the end of March (and incidentally today is my oldest daughter's birthday) and I can't even tell you the last time I got on the treadmill. Actually, yes I can. It was today, ha, ha, ha!!! DUH! That's the whole reason for this blog! LOL! Anyway, so much for resolutions. I feel really crappy for not sticking with my New Year's Resolution. I've gained weight instead of losing it. I've got no energy and I sleep all the time. Well, that's gotta change and today was the day we started.
I have the house to myself so after I dragged myself out of the bed - have I mentioned that my bed is the most comfortable place in the whole world? No? Well, my bed is the most comfortable place in the world! No wonder I want to sleep so much! Anyway, I dragged myself out of bed and while I was in the bathroom I decided that I would start today to get back in shape. A month ago I was talking to an old friend who wants me to come visit her in North Carolina. She said a friend of hers has been after her to run a 5k. She and I got to talking and we decided that we would run one together. We decided on the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure and we were going to run it in North Carolina. She wants me to come visit her so she can have a Paparazzi party. Paparazzi is a brand of $5 jewelry that I sell. You can check it out at www.paparazzibykarley.weebly.com if you want to see what it's all about. It's affordable quality jewelry, really cute stuff, go see for yourself. And I've digressed again....so my friend wants to have a party so we agreed I'd come visit her and we'd have a party and run a race all in the same weekend. I also am running the same race in two other places. I will only fund raise for one. So, the first race was supposed to be May 4th in North Carolina but my kids have state solo contest on that day so I have to cancel that one and we have to find another one to run together. Nevertheless, I decided it was time to get back in shape.
So, I got my stuff together and headed to the living room to face my Nemesis. I started out at 5.0 MPH because this is my regular running rate. After the first few steps I was grinning. I LOVE running. How could I ever stop this? Why do I continue to do this to myself? I know I LOVE to run so why do I stop? UGH!!! But, this was hard. I had to stop after 1/2 mile and catch my breath. I did some stretching and rested then started up again. I had to stop again after another 1/2 mile but I kept my rate at 5 MPH. I ran a little over 1.5 miles for a total of 20 minutes. I spent the rest of my time on the treadmill walking and working my arms a little. I'm a little disturbed at the flabbiness of my triceps. It's rather disgusting and I need to tighten up. I plan to add an aerobic workout with weights to my routine since this is about getting back in shape. I used to be in very good shape when I was 22. When I had my first child, I was able to get back in size 4 jeans the day I went home from the hospital. That's right....be jealous. Now, I don't know if I'll ever see a size 4 again, but I'm hoping that one day I might and I know being in my forties, it might not be an attainable goal but I think it is so secretly it's what I'm working toward and I plan to achieve it. Watch me go and when I achieve it I will post a picture of myself in size 4 jeans. Yes, yes, I will!
Anyway....so this one is self explanatory. 1.638 miles @ 5 MPH and another .6333 miles at 3.8 MPH. It took 30 minutes total (which is why the numbers are odd, today I went for time not distance) with me running @ 5 MPH for 20 minutes and walking @ 3.8 for 10 minutes for a total of 30 minutes. I don't know my pace because I messed my treadmill up when I was resting. I accidentally leaned my head against the buttons and set my treadmill for the 10,000 steps program so I had to take the little magnet thing off which resets the treadmill. So, I don't know my pace.....I do know that running at 5 MPH has a pace of 12:00 and walking at 3.8 has a pace of 15:47. I'm too tired to think about the math to figure out overall pace and my running site didn't do it for me for some reason. Uber sadness.....oh well....I can live without my pace for today. Okay, so I lied, I cannot. I just now searched the net and found a pace calculator. It turns out that my pace was 13:13. So there we go. Once again here are the details (or as Kenzi on "Lost Girl" would say the Detz): I went for 2.271 miles with 1.638 of that @ 5 MPH and .6333 @ 3.8 MPH for a total pace of 13:13.
Tomorrow's another day and I've got new goals; training is back in session!
Happy Running!
KEA
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
So.....Out.....Of.....Shape!!!!
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!!!!!
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!!!!!
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
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