Happies and Crappies numero dos

Got the button to show up first time booyah! Thanks Sarah for all the help last time! This is my second week that I have linked up with Sarah for happies and crappies and I think it is such a cute idea! I'm going to start with crappies that way I get to end on a good note

Crappies:
The super ouchy mega blister that I got on my foot
Work this week has been loooooooooonng
The bf left for work again this week and it's always a tough adjustment to being by myself

Happies
First off it's Friday yay!!!! (thank goodness I don't think I would of lasted another day)
I went for my first post mega blister run yesterday and it felt pretty darn good! (more on that in a minute)
I found someone who is going to be my running buddy :-)
I've ate pretty well all week, yay go me! :-)
My little monster is sometimes, when he feels like it, listening better
My mom will be here in one week!
Diva Dash is a week away!
And lastly we are FINALLY getting some nice weather! I don't want to jinx it, but I even saw 70 in the 10 day forecast :-)


So yesterday I got off work and had no intentions of running. I had just had a conversation with a girl at work about how I was taking the week off because I really wanted the blister to heal, and I didn't want to risk not being able to do Diva Dash next weekend. Welp then I stepped outside and it was BEAUTIMUS!!!! I was walking to my car thinking mah maybe I'll just go for a short run? Just 2 miles to see how it feels. Then I started talking myself out of it going well it is kind of windy, and I really don't want to go home, change, drive across town, run, drive back home. I kept debating with myself till I got home and let the pouch out, then I was struck with a brilliant idea :-) Since I was only going to do a short run I should ditch the sissy lala pants and put on my big girl panties and go for a run by my house and conquer some of the dreaded hills! So that's exactly what I did :-) I also decided that since it was a short run and by my house I should try running with the pouch. He has had crazy amounts of energy/been naughty since the bf left, he is missing his playmate something fierce :-(

I covered my blister with a new piece of moleskin (much better than the Dr. Scholls blister treatment), laced up the tennis, put a leash on the dog and off we went. It's uphill from our apartment complex to the trail, and then the first part of the trail is a hill. After that it really was pretty flat some minor rolly hills, but nothing major, it was really just the first .5 mile that I had to survive. Once we got past the uphill part it was pretty easy sailing. Yesterday was a really good run for me :-) I felt good, and was able to kind of zone out and just enjoy the weather and what was going on around me. On the way home I tried to focus on my pace and go faster than the snail pace I have been keeping lately. I really felt like I was booking it, but I found out when I got home that I really had only moved from snail status to turtle status.

We took a nice little look that ended up being 2.25 miles on the dot. I decided when I left that I wasn't going to worry about the distance or checking my phone I was just going to run, and it turned out pretty good. For the first time EVER I got done running and was really wishing I had gone for a longer run. It was so nice and it had been such a good run, I got to the end of the path and thought, but I'm not ready to be done! Pouchie however was acting like he was pretty pooped though so we headed back to the house (he totally tricked me though we got home and he was back to acting like a spaz!). He did pretty good for his first run, minus wrapping himself around one pole. He stayed right with me and never took off after anything even though we passed other people and dogs. He was licking his paws after we got home though so I am worried that his feet are a little sore :-( He isn't acting sore today though, so I am debating about taking him out with me again tonight. He did randomly decide in the middle of our run that he was terrified of water and couldn't cross the sidewalk where it was running across. I don't know what his deal was! He runs through water all the time at our apartment and it was seriously just like a wet spot on the sidewalk! Who knows with this crazy man :-)

after our run he is saying come on mom why are you stopping we're almost home!!!

 

With one pole incident and one potty break (him not me) our total run time ended up being 23:51 which is a 5.7 pace... meh I was really hoping to be back above 6.0, but what can you do. I know I really need to do some treadmill work to get my speed up, but I hate that damn thing!!  Anyways the breakdown was:

mile 1 - 11:27 pace of 5.2 HELLO SNAIL PACE! In my defense this was where the hills were AND where the pole incident and the bathroom break happened

mile 2 - 10:03 pace of 6.0 :-)

and the last .25 I did in 2:19 at a pace of 6.5 ( it was downhill)

 

and here are some pictures from when I tried to get a cute picture of me and the monster, but it epically failed... and then one of my neighbors caught me trying to take selfies of me and the pouch and I felt like an idiot and ran inside like any normal person would do...

 

half decent picture of me( besides the weird smile and fact I really need my eyebrows done) and the pouch is distracted by absolutely nothing... oh don't my headphones cord

and the only picture out of like 5 where the pouch is ACTUALLY looing at the camera and I decided to close my eyes and look like a total goofball....

 

 

HAPPY FRIDAY ALL!!!!!!!