What is going on?!?!

I just got out of bed at 4:05 in the morning who am I right now?!?!?! I had planned on getting up at about 5:45 to go get a run in and then do the 7:00 tighten and tone class, but I decided now I am going to do the 5:30 butts and guts class and then do my run after. On Tuesday I woke up at about this same time, but then I went back to sleep and when 5:45 rolled around I was practically in a coma so there was no getting me out of bed. After that I told myself if it happened again I would just get up, so I did! I almost immediately regretted the decision though. I took the little monster outside to potty and he took FOREVER, and it's only 9 degrees outside, and the feels like temp is -6... ARE YOU KIDDING ME MOTHER NATURE!!! Yeah that's a record if your wondering....

Anyways since my crazy ass is out of bed ridiculously early I thought I would get my blog post in while I drink my coffee. Yesterday I had a mini temper tantrum at the gym (this is why I like working out just me myself and I). I ran a little over a mile and then I decided this sucks, and I had already chanted I hate running like 1,632 times to myself so there was no way I was going to make it another 3 miles. Maybe I have ADD I don't know, but there is no way I can just stare at the same nothing for 45 minutes and run, I don't know what's wrong with me. So I decided I would try the interval button... Maybe I'm just treadmill inept, or maybe our treadmill is just stupid, but it did nothing! The incline went up a tiniest bit and then it had me walking at 1 mph and the little dots on the screen were at the easy point. I figured that while the little dots were at the low part it would have me walk slow, but when the dots spiked it would have me run... I was wrong! I get through the 2 minutes of walking 1 mph and the dots spike up to where your supposed to be exerting yourself and nothing happens. I'm still cruising along at 1 mph.

So my temper tantrum got worse. I think my thoughts went something like this stupid freaking thing!! What the hell?!?!?! Why am I even here??? I hate running!!! I almost left, but then I decided I should do SOMETHING since I was already there. So I turned the incline up and walked at 4.0 for about 30 seconds and then my temper tantrum continued..... BUT then I did something productive with my temper tantrum anger. I ran! One of my favorite songs came on and all the sudden I just wanted to sprint to get over this stupid frustration, so I did. I turned the speed up to 7.0 and was like I'm just going to run till I can't run anymore. So I started running and I wanted to go faster and faster. I turned it up to about 8.5 and ran till I thought I wasn't going to be able to breathe (about a minute lets be honest here), and then back down to 7.0. I kept going up and down up and down, but never below 7.0 I ran .5 of a mile and decided to take a break. I stepped off the treadmill to go outside and cool off and immediately thought I was going to hurt. Sister is not in very good shape! And I probably shouldn't of eaten that pb and English muffin so close to my workout.

Just hanging out in a snow storm

Once I no longer felt like the surface of the sun, or like I was going to hurl I went back in and did it again. For the first time since I started running I felt really good after my run. I felt like I had really worked hard and pushed myself. I did some stretching and then did some ab workouts. After I finished my abs I thought I feel really good I should run another mile, seriously who am I right now?!?!? And I totally would of, but I had already been at the gym 7 minutes longer than I was supposed to of been... whoopsies. So after that workout I am leaning towards not "training" anymore. I just want to get in a good work out, that's going to get me in shape and that I can ENJOY. I'm not going to totally rule it out till after the Bolder Boulder, but I am definitely not going to stress the runs as much as I have been. I still want to get in a 3/4 mile run 2/3 times a week and a longer run on weekends, BUT if it's cold and miserable outside (like it seems like it's going to be forever) then I'm going to do something different because me and mister treadmill just don't get along. Today I am thinking I will once again TRY to go 4 miles, but every 5 minutes I am going to up the speed to 7.0 for a minute, maybe that will be enough to keep be interested for more than 10 minutes! Wish me luck!

All bundled up

 

And a scale picture from the chiropractor... I had on a sweater and pretty heavy dress pants so I'm thinking I'm still in the 112-113 range

 

 

 

 

 

 

To half marathon or not?

 

Happy May Day? Because of all the snow I have ANOTHER snow day at work. I am going to head into work in a little bit after they plow my apartment complex, and after my Dr's appointment to get fit for orthotics. Because of the snow day I have had some extra time to ponder, and maybe it's just the crappy weather, but I don't think I want to run a half marathon. I don't want to be a quitter, but I just don't think I am a runner. Running the 2 5k's was ok, and I'm going to run my two 10k's (the Bolder Boulder and the Color Run), but I just don't think I want to do a half marathon. Maybe some day I will, but I don't think I want to right now.

 

I sat down and thought about what my original goals were when I started working out. I wanted to get in shape, I wanted to be healthy, and I wanted a body I could be proud of. Running seemed like the obvious thing to do. Anyone can do it, you can do it anywhere, it requires virtually no equipment, and it burns lots of calories. No brainer. I started plodding along running one minute and then walking another, and reading every motivational blog I could get my hands on. They all said the same thing SET GOALS. So I did. I knew I wanted to run a 5k, but after I ran my first mile I decided something crazy. My crazy brain decided hey I should run a half marathon. I found a plan and thought I could do it in 6 months. I have been running for 3 months now (long enough they say it should be a habit) and I just don't like it.

 

 Running outside when it's nice I don't mind it's kind of relaxing and good for my mind, but I don't like this whole "training" thing. I don't like forcing myself to do things I don't want to do and 9 times out of 10 I don't. I haven't ran since Saturday because I DREAD the idea of dong 4 miles on a dreadmill, seriously can't think of many other things that sound worse. I think "training" for this half is getting in the way of my real goal, which was to get in shape. I talk myself OUT of going to the gym because I don't have time to get my run in AND do a strength workout. If I can't do both I don't go at all. I went to a bootcamp class 2 weeks ago and really like it. I had a plan to start going to the gym every morning and I'd do my run and then do the 7:00/7:30 class they offer each day. Well realistically to get to the gym and get in my run before the 7:00 am class I have to wake up at 5:45 and lately I am NOT a morning person. So I hit the snooze and go back to sleep. And that's if I plan on running on  the treadmill at the gym, if it's nice and I wanted to run outside I would have to be up at 5:30 to be at the park by 6 to be done by 6:45. And that's pushing it! If I was only going to do the class I wouldn't have to be up till 6:30. Right now I get up some time between 6:45 and 7:00 so 6:30 sounds a lot more doable!

 

 I also really love my Nike workouts, but I have a hard time finding time to do both a run and the workout. And I know this is just a crap load of excuses, and that if it's important you find a way, but that's just it running isn't important to me. I don't like running, and I don't feel good after a run. I hear people talk about running highs and how they feel so awesome after they run and I don't get that. I never have and I don't think I ever will. I feel tired, and that's it. The only happy/good feeling I have is that I'm not mad at myself for skipping a workout. I think if I were to quit "training" and just start working out I would skip far fewer workouts, and I would reach my real goal of getting in shape.

 

Through my work we have a wellness program. It's a really awesome program with all sorts of resources, and part of it is a goal setting part. I set all these goals 3 months ago for myself fitness wise such as being able to do 25 push-ups, be able to do 3 pull ups, 45 sit ups in a minute, and run a 5k. The only goal I have reached is the 5k one. While I am proud of myself for reaching that goal I really fell like I dropped the ball everywhere else. I have been so focused on running  that I haven't focused on any other parts of my fitness or wellness. I have a wellness coach that calls and checks up with me every 3 months on the goals I set and I will be talking with her tonight, and I'm honestly really bummed/disappointed that I will have to tell her the only goal I reached was running a 5k. I'm not throwing in the towel yet, but I am definitely reevaluating. I'm off to run the stupid 4 miles, on the stupid dreadmilll, because of the stupid snow. I will post some recipes later tonight I just wanted to get out what was weighing on me this morning, hope everyone is having a warmer day than I am!

 

 

Partner man has been doing some pondering of his own this morning too :-)



Healthy Eating Part Two

Funny that I would decide to write a post about healthy eating and planning because this week I didn't do my normal meal planning and have been on the struggle bus!! Told you if I don't plan everything out I'm SOL! Normally I spend Saturday/Sunday morning planning out my meals for the week and figuring out what I have and what I will need to get at the store. It is IMPOSSIBLE for me to go to the store and only buy what is on my list, so I really try to only go once a week. If I make impromptu trips for extra items, like today, I end up spending $40 when I only went for bananas and an onion... Epic fail! And the worst part is I didn't even get my dang bananas! The whole town seems to be sold out of bananas it's ridiculous. My original meal plan for the week looked something like this:

 

Monday-jalapeno stuffed chicken (one of my faves!)

 

Tuesday- spaghetti

 

Wednesday - crockpot pork chops

 

Thursday - Chicken and Rice (go to meal I could eat this every day)

 

Friday - Sunday Madre will be here to visit so it's all up for grabs :-)

 

Then reality happened when I was brushing my teeth Monday morning and I realized I hadn't cooked dinner Sunday night so I had no leftovers for lunch and I hadn't gotten anything ready for dinner last night so it went something like this instead

 

Monday Lunch - chicken fajitias that were decently healthy with a side of fruit and caramel popped rice cakes for an afternoon snack

 

Monday Dinner - garlic chicken frozen meal that was eh at best - I picked it because the label made it look like the healthiest, but when I was making it I realized that it broke it down to 4 portions where all the other competitors only broke theirs into 2. I managed to get 3 portions out of it so it was about 265 calories, but I'm sure it was full of all sorts of unhealthy additives.

 

Tuesday Lunch looked like this:

 

 

breakdown is a small orange, carrots/celery with ranch, salad with light olive garden dressing (that I didn't end up eating because I bought the wrong kind of lettuce and it was NASTY, and leftover chicken garlic stuff

 

And Tonight's dinner consisted of the last of the leftover garlic chicken and waaaaaaaaaayyy too many of these suckers!!

 

 

If you haven't tried pretzel crisps yet you definitely should! They have 4 other flavors, but this one is new and was one of my impulse buys at the grocery store and it is definitely a winner!!

 

I'm going to do (finally) do my meal prep for the rest of the week tonight. Last week I made a big fruit salad that I munched on all last week, so I am going to make another this week with cantaloupe, strawberries, and blackberries. For main courses I am going to do spaghetti with chicken sausage (first time trying it) and chicken tortilla soup in the crockpot for tomorrow because it's snowing AGAIN! It's freaking madness. Tomorrow I will post some of my most loved recipes! Hope you all are having better weather than me!

 

 

Healthy eating and a little bragging

So this has NOTHING to do with running, working out, or getting in shape but I have to do a little bragging! I had pretty much the world's greatest friends when I was in college. They were awesome and always there for me and I love them from the bottom of my heart. And now some of them are going on to do some super awesome things!!! My friend Joshie just got picked up by the Oakland Raiders!!!! He couldn't deserve it more he has worked his booty off and is going to do awesome I just know it! Good things do come to good people!

fist bumps and wiggles I'm so excited for him!

There are very few sober pictures of me from college (sorry mom) so this is one of the most appropriate of the two of us

Joshie Poo with my Niece and Nephew

 

So proud of him! It couldn't of happened to a better guy and I had to do some bragging :-) Oh and he's single ladies ;-) Our other good friend Mags also got picked up by the Raiders so they will be headed to Oakland together in 2 weeks (there are no appropriate photos of me and Mags to post)! And Josh's roommate got picked up my Tampa Bay so it was an all around awesome day yesterday for the former Wyo O-line!!

 

hopefully Nick can find a bath tub his size in Tampa ;-)

I just stole this picture from fb here's the 3 of them together on pro day they are beasts!! My mom always felt that I was very safe at college since I had such large friends :-)

 

Ok now time to get back on track with things that are relative. I haven't talked much about what I eat on here, but it really is a big part of my life and getting healthy! I am in no way shape or form an expert, but I just try and fill my belly with healthy things. I use My Fitness Pal to track what I eat, and it has really helped a lot! I always thought I could never track my food it would take too much work, but MFP really makes it a lot easier. They have SO MANY foods on there! I have yet to find something they don't have. And I love that it breaks down everything it doesn't just count calories. It also makes me hold myself accountable. If I have to log in that I just ate a cookie, a piece of cake, or a whole handful of candy I am much more likely to turn it down. It takes take a little bit of time and effort, but for me it has been a big help! (I'm really excited/happy this morning can you tell by all the exclamation points I have already used? )

 

One of the biggest things for me is that I try and eat fruit and veggies at every meal. I have heard that some people believe that you shouldn't eat any fruit after noon because of all the natural sugars in it, but my mindset is that its better to fill up on fruit than junk. On MFP I am almost always over on my sugars for the day because of how much fruit I eat, but I figure natural sugar is better for you than the processed refined stuff, so I don't worry about it too much. My morning smoothie alone uses up pretty much all of my sugar allowance for the day. Speaking of smoothies, that's how I get my veggies in at breakfast :-) I'm always late leaving for work so I tend to eat things that I can grab and go. Smoothies are great for this reason, but also because I can pack em with things I don't like and hide it with the fruit, such as spinach. Yuck hate spinach, the only way it's getting in this body is through a smoothie! These last 2 weeks I have also been trying to add a serving of Naked's Green machine serving to my afternoon snack to get in some extra green goodness. I never thought I would be able to drink a green smoothie, but it for real just tastes like apples!

 

One of my morning smoothies. I almost always have banana in them and from there it is just whatever else I have. The white stuff in the middle is coconut oil, smoothies are also how I get my daily dose of that :-)

 

I'm a carb freak. There I admitted it. It's weird though because I am not big on bread. I prefer hamburgers and hot dogs without a bun, I don't like toast, and I prefer my sandwiches as wraps, but show me pasta or rice and I'm all over that! I have been trying to work on weaning myself away from it, but it's hard! Every meal I'm like oh rice would be good with that, step away from the rice Shannon! So now I *try* to replace rice with a second veggie, but sometimes I just really feel like I need some starch in my life to feel full!

 

My other weakness is sweets. I seriously have a sugar issue. I.CAN.NOT.SAY.NO.TO.CAKE. End of story. I love it way too much. I am working on saying no to all the other sweets and trying to eat far less of them, but it's definitely a bit of a losing battle. The biggest thing is I try and keep it out of the house. This is DEFINITELY easier when the bf isn't here. The bf loves sweets more than me, and he eats them one box of twinkies at a time. He has no interest in healthy eating. There is a grocery store not far from my house, and I have been known on prior occasions to drive to the store, buy the individual pieces of cake, and eat it for dinner. So to avoid these incidents I try and keep a few healthier sweet options on hand. I love Jello's sugar free pudding! They are also fat free and only have 60-70 calories in it depending on which ones you get. They sell a cheesecake flavor if you buy the box and make it yourself, and it helps tide me over from cheesecake cravings :-) Anything low fat/low sugar/altered to appear more healthy = chemicals though. Sometimes you just have to pick your battles though! Fruit and low fat cool whip is also another go to treat for me when I am feeling the need for something sweet.

 

The biggest thing to keep my eating on track for me is planning. If I don't have what I'm going to eat planned out for the week there is a good chance I'll sub in crap meals. I like to bring my lunch to work because it cuts out the option to eat crap. I don't have to make any decisions and I don't have to deal with temptation (except cake in the break room). If I bring a healthy lunch, I'll eat a healthy lunch. My lunch is pretty standard I always have either a side salad or carrots/celery, some sort of fruit, and then left overs. Having left overs to eat for lunch makes my life SO much easier. I also ALWAYS pack snacks for myself. I know that I can't go much more than 2ish hours without needing a snack. These past few weeks I have been munching on healthy banana bread I made with a clementine for my morning snack, and for my afternoon snack I eat one of  my banana pb and oatmeal bites with 8oz of green smoothie. Planning saves my booty, literally.

 

banana, pb, and oatmeal bites

My healthyish banana bread

 

This post has gotten ridunkulously long so I am going to continue it tomorrow because I have to get ready to celebrate with Joshie woo! Happy Sunday all!

 

The worst 5k in the history of 5ks

This may of only been my 2nd 5k, and I may not be very "experienced" but this 5k was a train wreck and I'm declaring it the worst ever!! It was called the fast and furriest, and was for CSU's vet students. Since it was dog friendly I decided it would be monster's first 5k! We woke up this morning all excited and got ready to go. I attempted to brushed the munch and make him look handsome, and put on his zebra bandana. We packed the car full of his bed, treats, water, his leash, and all his "friends". He doesn't travel light, ever. I ate half an English muffin with peanut butter and he licked the peanut butter off my fingers and the napkin for breakfast. We took one final potty break and we were ready to go.

 

 

 

his pre-race smile, I tried really hard to get a picture of him where you could see his bandana and he was having NO part of it

 

I stopped on the way down to Fort Collins and picked up a friend who was going to run with me. The race was supposed to start at 9 and we showed up a little before 8:40 to get our bibs since we had pre-registered (we planned to be there by 8:30, but I am ALWAYS late). We park in what we are pretty sure is the right place and see NO signs indicating that a race is going on, or where to pick up bibs. I start to slightly panic since we are already a little behind. Luckily once we parked and got out a girl went by with a dog and a bib so we figured we were in the right place. We asked her where she got her bib and head in that direction. We find where there are a few tents set up and there is a line to one, so we start standing in line. Once again there were NO signs. After getting almost to the front of the line we realize we are standing in the line to register, and that the line for pre-registered people is on the other side. We switch sides and this line moves much quicker, we get to the front give our names and they start shouting about between them. They didn't have the "swag bags" (I'm getting savvy to the lingo :-) ) put together yet, and our number wasn't included in it. I hear the guy yell for a large shirt for me, and I try to nicely tell him that I put down a small (um hello have you seen how short I am a large would be a dress on me!) he gives me a dirty look and goes back to the next person. I am finally handed a bag, but no number. I ask the guy if my number is supposed to be in the bag, and he says no someone should of handed it to me. At this point I am starting to panic because it's like 8:55, he yells back that they need my number again, and a girl yells back that they don't have it. BIG panic this time, the guy kindly ignores my panic attack so I frantically start digging through the bag just to make sure it didn't end up in there, and there it is hidden under the shirt. I grabbed some safety pins and shot the guy a nasty look. (And it says on my bib that I asked for a small so hah!)

 

I had to work damn hard for this bib! (300's must be my friend I was 318 in the other race)

 

By this time the girl I am with (btw it was her first 5k!) has her number pinned on and is all ready to go. I scramble putting my number on, poking myself in the belly in the process, and realize there is NO WAY we are going to make it back to the car to drop off our bags. A very nice lady at one of the tents agreed to let us stash our bags with her, thank goodness (only positive of the day)! We dash over to the start area, find a place we think will be good to start, and get our phones/earphones all set up just in time for them to tell us that they are moving the start. Grrr it was a little frustrating, but we figured oh well. We get over to the other side of this oval thing where the new start is going to be, get to where we think is a good place to be again, and are standing there waiting to get going. We ask this guy in a dog suit that was supposed to be leading us (he ended up not because he was too drunk... ) if we are facing the right way he gives some unintelligible answer so we start asking others around us, and nobody knows. A guy with a megaphone comes over and says something that no one around us understands, we stand there for a minute and then see people start shuffling so we all assume he said we were going to be running the other direction. We moan and groan, but join the shuffle to get towards the front since we are now at the very back. Not 2 seconds after we find a new place he announces that no we aren't changing directions he just needed everyone to scoot back behind these 2 cones that no one saw. More groaning, more shuffling. We find another new spot for the 4th freaking time. By this point in time Partner is freaking out because everyone is packed in super tight and people/dogs are running him over so I'm trying to keep him close by/calm. In the process of doing this my headphones turned into a GIANT knot, seriously I think someone was tying them in knots while I wasn't looking.

 

It's well after 9 now and they finally start us and we are off like a herd of turtles. I expect to head off through campus, but instead we start running around this damn oval. I think ok we are just heading back to the other side where we were going to start and then we'll head out on that side.... NOPE we pass that point, and pass where we started, and by this point I'm pissed. We are fairly convinced that we are just going to be running around this stupid circle for the next 3 miles. I look down at my phone to see how fast we are going/how long the distance around this stupid oval is and the time is running on my running app, but the distance says 0.00 WTF!!! I start freaking out/getting angry and the girl I'm running with starts to panic a little because we needed to be watching our pace to make sure that she would get a fast enough time to get into my heat of the Bolder Boulder. If I hadn't been so confuzzled from everything going on, it would of been smart to stop the app and start it again, but the thought that crossed my brain instead was what the hell else is going to go wrong!

 

Just as we were about to say fuck this race I'm not running in 10 circles, we saw people start to head off away from the oval and through campus. THANK YOU BABY JESUS! I felt like we were running at a pretty good pace, but I had no clue our distance which I didn't like. I figured the miles would be marked along the course though, so I wasn't too worried. My legs weren't feeling very good, and I was having a hard time finding a grove, but I just kept trucking looking for mile markers. At this point I don't know why I was expecting anything to of been set up for the race. Around one corner I look at my phone and it says 10 minutes, and I think uh-oh we haven't seen a mile marker. We keep trucking along and by 12 minutes I'm thinking we have to have gone a mile by now! At 14 minutes there is a water station so I'm thinking we must be half way, and were booking it! I started feeling pretty confident thinking we were going way fast and that I was finally feeling pretty good. Yep that didn't last long.

 

 About a minute later we get to a corner and there is a lady cheering (because the course wasn't marked so people stood at corners and directed us) and saying your half way you can do it! Ugh not booking it like I  had thought. At this point I tell the other girl with me that if she is feeling good she should go ahead and go faster to make sure she gets her time. She is in MUCH better shape than me! She picked up her pace a little and is ran a little ways in front of me the rest of the race. I am minding my own business jogging along thinking I am feeling pretty good, but wishing I had a person to pace myself with when all of a sudden BOOM!!! I don't exactly know what happened, but I went from trying to find a good race mindset to sprawled out on the ground with my phone in one place, the case in another, my headphones in my hand (which I spent ALL race messing with because they kept falling out of my ear because of the knot), and the dog leash on my foot. I was big time embarrassed! And I had scared the crap out of my dog so I was really glad the leash ended up stuck on my foot otherwise I would of spent the rest of the morning chasing him trying to catch him. I picked up the pieces of my phone and the leash and started running again. Btws of all the places I could of biffed it I did it right by the soccer fields where there was about oh 200 to 300 air force people doing workouts... I'm good like that.

 

war wound on my hand

 

And a little raspberry on the knee, there is a touch of road rash on my calf but you can't really see it in the light in my living room... I was fairly impressed I managed to not get super scrapped up... but on second thought that probably just means I was going snail pace

 

I biffed it at about 20 minutes, so I am guessing that I was at about the 2 mile mark. I spent the next minute or so trying to run/put my case back together on my phone which was no easy task. I was freaking fed up with my headphones so I was just going to not listen to music the rest of the time, but I decided that I needed music. It was a beautiful day and the sun was out, but we had only been counting on it being in the 50's and by this point it was HOT. After I biffed it I just couldn't get my grove back I was hot, I was tired, I was getting seriously thirsty, and I was over this stupid train wreck race. I saw the next corner headed back towards where we started so I started thinking thank god I'm almost done with this thing. Once I got close enough to the oval where we started I saw people were running around it and my only thought was if I have to go around this stupid thing more than once I am quitting! I quickly realized that the finish was at the end of one more lap around it, but I had no steam left and didn't feel like I could even do one more lap. I was huffing and puffing and I seriously had to pee. It was the longest lap of my whole freaking life and I don't even know how long it was (it was definitely bigger than a normal size track oval, but I don't know by how much). I almost stopped to walk twice in that last lap, but I kept telling myself JUST.KEEP.RUNNING no matter how slow my legs got I didn't want to walk. I felt like crap and figured that this time was going to be way slower than my last race time, and I was bummed but at this point I really didn't care I just wanted to finish and not walk. I FINALLY got to the finish line and saw the clock read 30:13 I seriously couldn't believe it! There were 3 timing strips though and I'm not sure which one was the official finish so my time was somewhere between 30:13 and 30:17.

 

After finishing the only thing on my mind was finding a bathroom! I don't pee in port-a-potties, end of story. When I first started dating the bf I shocked the crap out of him because I peed in a parking lot, in broad daylight, in the middle of Scottsdale because I refused to pee in a port-a-potty at the Barrett Jackson. But today I didn't care all I knew was I had to pee and I had to pee NOW. It was my only option so I made an exception to the rule, but under any other circumstances there would of been no way. The thing was super tippy and I was worried it was going to fall over so I bolted out of  there with my pants like half up and all crooked, but at least I didn't pee my pants. We hung around and ate a few oranges and got the pooch a treat, but then we decided we were ready for breakfast and mimosas :-) We headed down town filled up on some seriously yummy grub, and did a little shopping. I dropped my friend back of where she had stayed the night and headed home with the pooch.

 

he slept the whole way :-) it was the quietest car ride I've ever had with him apparently the extra .85 of a mile did him in

 

The race was supposed to be "officially" timed with timing chips, but I realized when I got home that there was no timing strip at the start so I don't know how that is going to work. I also tried to find where the results will be posted, but had no luck. After seeing what a train wreck it was I'm not surprised though! I just hope they are posted somewhere so my friend can use it as her qualifying time! She hauled booty! She said she wasn't sure what her time was, but she was at least a minute ahead of me and I'm guessing she did it in under 29 minutes. Even though the whole race was a mess from start to finish and everything that could of gone wrong did go wrong I am excited that my time was faster. I really wanted to get under 30 minutes and if I hadn't biffed it I might of had a chance, but honestly I'm just happy I finished without walking! I definitely need to do some serious training in the next month to make it through the Bolder Boulder with a half decent time (or just to make it)! No more skipping workouts, and I definitely need to do some dreadmill work to work on my pace. Definitely not how I saw the day going, but at least I got a run in :-)

 

my hair is all jacked up and I have a stupid expression on my face because I was trying REALLY hard to keep my eyes open in the bright sun... and of course Partner is not looking at the camera what else is new

 

And after the whole stupid experience all I got was this super ugly shirt! Haha when I saw it all I could think was of course...

 

And the monster is still sleeping

 

 

Hope you all are having a wonderful Saturday!

 

 

 

 

 

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!!!!!!!

 

 

Thursday Jumble

I've been pretty absent this week, but I just figure you guys can only hear so much about my nasty foot/blister. I haven't worked out at all this week because of the stupid blister. I have felt REALLY guilty about it all week and honestly kind of disappointed. I set up this whole schedule on Sunday of how I was going to work out in the morning and then try and get a class in, and I haven't been able to do it at all :-( My blister is STILL super duper mega ouchy, but on top of it I have the Diva Dash with my mom next weekend that I want to make sure I am able to do. I don't want to push myself into working out too soon and make it worse and then not be able to participate next weekend/have a really miserable time trying to participate next weekend.

 

My blister is looking better which is awesome, but it feels like it's cracking every time I take a step which is not so awesome. I know I should be riding the bike or doing some other form of cardio to stay in shape, but I REALLY hate riding the stationary bike! They would make me do it during physical therapy for my knee and it was the most boring thing ever! And since then I have always hated it, and can never bring myself to do it. I'm also worried that curling my foot to keep my foot on the pedal would be really ouch to my foot, but I guess there is only one way to find out!

 

In other news I went to the chiropractor for the first time ever yesterday. A girl I worked with referred me to her chiropractor because she loves him and said he is really gentle. It wasn't nearly as scary as I thought it might be and he was really gentle... But I really wasn't all that impressed. I don't know maybe I just expected too much, but I really don't feel that much better. My walking does seem to be a little bit better and I don't feel it on the outside of my foot as much, so I definitely feel improvement there, but in my hips/back nothing feels better. I also didn't like/didn't feel that it was very professional that he tried to sell me his diet products that he also sells. It was more of him just hinting at it, but still. He didn't even ask about my diet or my lifestyle he just immediately went into how he finds that if his clients have a better diet they have less issues. He also kind of treated me like I was just a whiney baby and said that most runners just need to learn blister management. Well gee thanks mister! If it was just a damn blister I probably wouldn't of been in your office, but since my hip/knee/ankle were hurting plus the outside of my foot was killing me I was pretty sure something was going on! Plus the fact that when those aren't hurting I don't get blisters. And even if I was just a whiney baby you're getting paid because of it so be happy about it and don't treat me like an idiot!

 

He wants me to go back tomorrow so he can see how his adjustments held, so we'll see if I like him any better tomorrow. He does seem to really know a lot, and he is gentle, and he is really close to my work so those are all pros, but since it may cost me a mini fortune to be going to the chiropractor I am going to make sure I spend it at one that I like. Pretty much the only real big plus from it was that he has a scale in his office (because of his diet stuff that he sells) so I weighed myself there and the scale said 115.4 woot woot!! That was with all my work clothes on so I'm guessing without them I am about 112 which is in my normal happy range :-) Either I took on some serious water weight from it being "that time of the month" or the scale at the gym is off. I was definitely happy to see that number yesterday though! I'm not really all that worried about "the number" on the scale. Of course I wouldn't be opposed to it going down (105 is my dream weight ) I am really more concerned about my measurements, as long as I'm losing inches I don't care what the scale says.

 

Happy almost Friday!! I hope your week hasn't felt as long as mine!