If Your Not First, You're Last!

Well its officially official and there's no turning back now; I'm now registered to run the Mankato 1/2 Marathon! I got my bonus check today (for coming in #1 afternoons in men 18-49 in the ratings) so I figured nows the time to pay my fee's and make it official. So all that is left is for me to stop sabotaging myself and get focus and dammit run!

I'm looking forward to the day off completely of exercise tomorrow. I plan on partying tonight (yeah I know I shouldn't but I am) and sleeping in tomorrow and then working then doing nothing...or something. Who knows with me. I have 6 miles on a "hilly route" on Sunday. Don't think I'll do a "hilly route" but whatever 6 miles is 6 miles.

70 days to go!

Running on Empty-2nd Long Run

So this is how my first 9 mile run goes....lets look back into the sands of time and you would see me Wednesday night at the Taste of Peoria consuming Miller Lites like they were going out of style. Fast Forward to 1:30am and I'm finally going to sleep. Fast Forward (way to quickly) to 6am, I'm supposed to bring Mattie to work, thankfully he tells me to sleep and he'll come back in a few more hours. I don't know why I listened, I never do, but I did...thankfully. If I didn't I may be dead right now. Anyway do some more fast forwarding and its 9am I have a wonderful Dunkin Donuts coffee in hand a bagel in the other, some orange slices on my passenger seat and I'm off to the Rock Island trail so it begins...my 9 mile run.

This was my first time running on the RIT and it wasn't to bad. I knew it was shaded and since the heat and humidity was already on the rise I figured I could get in the 9 miles easier out there than in my neighborhood. I gotta admit there was a lingering headache and quite a bit of fatigue even before I began and the more I ran the worse it got. The worse it got the hotter it got. I started to walk at like 6.5 miles. Tried to pick it back up and added another 3/4 mile. Grand total: 7.20 I sucked it big time today. And ya know what I'm totally disappointed in myself. I was supposed to get serious once training started and here I am drinking the night before a long run and staying up late. I'm really mad at myself that I'm letting fun get in my way so soon. I can't let bad habits and fun creep their way back into my life because I am not going back to that girl I was 6 months ago, I hated her. Uh I gotta snap outta this!

Gross tidbit you could do with out reading: I was so wet from sweat that when I took off my shirt and wrung it out....well yuck it was gross....helloooo I just said I wrung out my shirt!!! Once I got back to my truck I immediately drank 2-20+ Oz water bottles AND a G2 and still didn't pee until about 4pm this afternoon, I finished my run at 11am. Yes I'm stupid I know. Have I learned a lesson? Have you been reading my blog?

slleeeeeeeeepy!

Oh geesh I'm tired today. I've been seeing someone recently and its moving along nicely and I've been staying at his place lately. Get ur dirty minds outta the gutter, I just stay with him (ok so there is some making out but thats it perv lol) but I stayed at his house again last night. It seems I've been there on the nights before I have to run and so not a good idea. He was so sweet this morning (and looking oh sooo good) he told me to stay in bed when he left for the hospital and I should have listened to him but I didn't.

I wanted to run my 6 miles before body pump today and then do class. So I got up shortly after he left stopped for the best coffee in the world (dunkin donuts) and then went to the gym. BUT I was only able to do 4 miles by the time class started, however I felt so good running I wanted to finish the run instead of stopping for an hour class then going back after to do 2 more miles. So I skipped class, finished my run then did weights on my own. So what I am getting at is I could have and should have stayed in bed, gotten 2 extra hours of sleep and then I wouldn't feel so terrible right now. But I never listen and now I have a headache and I feel a little nauseous and I'm super tired and unmotivated to do anything that I must and its only 1 in the afternoon.

I'd like to say I've learned something here but I probably didn't. I'm already over working myself I haven't taken a day off from exercise in 10 days now and still have 3 more days until I have ONE day off. I know all of this is NOT good for me but I planned my training around my RPM classes. I teach on Monday, Wednesday and Friday I had to do my long run on a day I don't teach so that was Thursday. So with my training schedule paired with my RPM schedule on the day's I have off from running I have to teach RPM so my only day off completely is on Saturdays. I didn't have last Saturday off however because I subbed a class. Dumb. Very Dumb. Once this gets to be too much I think I'm going to give up my Friday RPM class, temporarily of course. This is something I don't want to do (cuz I just got a new car and a car payment) but I know I'm going to have to do it soon. BOO!

On the flip side I feel great when I am running, I did 6 miles on the dreaded treadmill (it was thunder storming, torrential down pouring for a bit and the featured performance was by a lightening show that would have made pink floyd jealous). I hate the treadmill. But I did very well, wasn't tired and physically felt like 6 miles was nothing. So I'm totally getting this endurance thing down already. I lost 1.6lbs at my weigh in this past Saturday and I'm hoping on a loss this week too. I'm like 2lbs away from officially hitting the 30lbs lost and I'm dying to get there so I can reward myself with a new belly ring. I've been trying to hit this mark for a while, I kinda slacked the past 6 weeks, however it was intentional so that I could be crazy serious now...which obviously I am.

Happy running...

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First Loooooong Run

Well its the day AFTER my long run and I think I'm going to die I'm so tired and achy. Remind me over the next 12 weeks that on my long run days I should NEVER EVER sub RPM class (spinning). For those of you who don't know part time I teach RPM, my classes are on Monday/Wed/Fri. But I was asked to fill in this Thursday (and Saturday). I thought since I was doing the morning show I could teach class at noon then go home rest then run my 8 miles. I was right I could do it cuz I did it but I was wrong because I'm so wiped out. Last night I went to flat top after the run and couldn't even eat because I felt like I was going to puke. OH and to top it all off the last 3 miles of the run I got a flare up of the runners trots and yep there was blood this time. I need to make that doctors appointment, today I promise.

Here's the breakdown of my long run:
Mile 1-9:23, 2-10:41, 3-10:53, 4-10:38, 5-10:22, 6-10:53, 7-11:21 and 8-9:24 total time was 1 hour and 23 minutes and 837 calories burnt. I took my time with the long run and plan to always do that because this is a marathon not a sprint right? I'll focus on speed on Mondays and Tuesdays when I go for the short 4, 5 and 2 mile runs. I felt fantastic the whole run breathing and heart rate were comfortable until mile 5 when the runners trots kicked in as you see mile 7 was hard because that was when it really hurt. But I'm not one to stop if I know I can push through so push I did and I feel awesome I finished but terrible because I just tried to do to much yesterday and my body is letting me know. Hey ya gotta make mistakes to learn, lesson learned is NO MORE RPM on my long run days! OH and yes make a doctors appointment!

Day 3-Poopy :(

There is really only one way to sum up yesterday's 5 mile run, I felt like my inners were being sucked outta me with a super shop vac! :(

I've gotta find a way to not have this problem the only thing I've read so far is that I should not have dairy or high fiber for breakfast. :(

Thursday is my first long run 8 miles not sure how I'll do since I have to teach RPM at noon and will wait to run until the evening time when its cooled off some.

Day 2-2 Miles is sooo much harder than 10 miles...

So today I had a 2 mile run and its much harder to run 2 miles as compaired to my long runs simply because I want to run more. But the whole time I kept thinking you need to only do 2 if you run more you will burn yourself out. So then I decided that I was going to run hard and fast for my 2 miles. lol So I did but I jacked up my ipod trying to skip songs so i can't tell you my pace today that's the one thing I hate about this Nike+/ipod. Anyway I know my first mile was done at a 9:14 pace. After the 2 miles I was supposed to do 4x150 meter sprints but instead I did 5x one tenth of a mile sprints. Its hot and humid here in Minnesota so I was about as drenched in sweat in the 30 minutes I was outdoors as I was in my 50 minutes outside in the rain yesterday day. My ankle was a bit sore at the start of my run but as it loosened up I felt fine, I continue with my daily therapy stretches and will start to do some balance and calf exercises to help it out as I continue my training. Tomorrow I have 5 miles with 15-20 minutes of strength training work after the run. Being with out a gym or weights I'm not sure what kind of strength work I'll do but I'm sure I'll figure something out, I'm thinking of doing alot of own body resistance work, like squats, push ups, planks with some cardio in between like jumping lunges, butt kicks, plyo's and so on. Sorry for such a boring blog post today.

Day 1-A run in the MN country side

Well its official I am now training to run my first half marathon. I'm in Minnesota and last night I met up with my BFF from high school, we went to a party and to the Legion (I grew up in a small town cut me some slack). Luckily I drove so I had to remain sober, I figured getting drunk the first day before marathon training wasn't really the way to start, lol.

So I have to say it was hard to get going today first thing I forgot my pro-biotic at home so I was terrified that I would get a case of the runners trots (and I did but thank the heavens it didn't happen until AFTER the run AND it was just gas). Also I am sleeping on an air mattress, its better than the couch but not as good as my sweet ass bed. And the last thing in my way was mother nature, it was raining. Well I decided to run on the road instead of the dirt trails because I didn't want to get my lunarglides all muddy. The run was very beautiful and peaceful in my Minnesota country side but it was also a tad boring but cuz I ran 2.5 miles straight down County Road 1 and then turned around. I ran the first 2 miles at a normal pace but then did 4x400 meter sprints at tempo but that wasn't enough to save me from straight way boredom. When it was all said and done I kicked of my training in country girl fashion finishing 5 miles in 47:13 at an average pace of 9:25.

I had a family reunion today so I was there all day I ate super well and even ended the day with 1.5 points to spare with a FULL tummy but then I clocked my beers :( remind me next time i want to drink a Stella that its a 3 point beer and I need to enjoy the 64's instead for only a point. However, all worth it because it was the last time with my entire family, was a great day, I'm sure I'll sleep well even on the air mattress. Primed and ready to go got 2 miles tomorrow with 4x150 meter sprints after the run, mother nature is supposed to get in my way again but hey come race day its rain or shine so may as well train in it now.

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