Recovering from micro-fracture surgery :(

It has been a month since my 18.5 run that caused the stress fracture after a fun week of too much hiking and trail running.  

I am going crazy!  I am up to 113.5 pounds.  I don't remember the last time I weighed this much! :(  I  was sitting yesterday and felt that awful familiar feeling of having a fat roll hang over my pants!! I am a definite pear shape so when I can feel the fat on my stomach.....I know my weight is getting up there!  

I see the doc in one week.  I am hoping I can start back up again.  I am feeling like I want to head out today in this beautiful fall weather and run up the canyon, hit the trails and get that tired leg feeling that I love so much.  

 I downloaded a bunch of new songs to my ipod and have it ready to go.  I can't take it anymore!  I HATE the boot! 

Things are looking up today!  I see the doc at 11 and I just registered for Boston.  I am hoping I get the green light to run today and .....sooooooo hoping I make it into BOSTON!  

It doesn't hurt that is is a beautiful day today.  If I get the green light.....I will be running 2 today!  

Fourth day of having my boot off.   

First day......I wanted to be bad, but was good.  I only played soccer and tennis with my 4 yr old (Jake) in the front yard and walked down to pick my kids up from the bus stop.

Second day....I thought I was going to be good, but ended up being really bad! I signed up for kickboxing classes and tried really hard not to kick with my healing foot.  It was tingling on the top of my foot after class.  I then went to my moms with my running gear, so that she could watch Jake for me. It was such a beautiful day and the temperature was perfect.  I had my ipod all ready to go with some new songs.  I thought I would just run for half a mile and walk for half a mile.   I started running and IT FELT SOOOOO GOOD!  I got to a half mile and my foot felt fine.  I thought I better keep going because a half mile was not very far.  I got to a mile and I was in heaven.....so, I kept going.  I noticed at just a little before mile two that I could feel some pain on the top of my foot, but I thought maybe it was just because I have been wearing a boot for a month.  I kept going until a little over two and then walked back to my moms.  Foot was not feeling great.  I headed over to a sports store to buy Jake some boxing gloves so that he can join me in class and I found a great pare of Asics Nimbus that are new and I decided that I had to have them.  130 bucks later......I having remorse.  Not for spending money but for running.  Foot is still a bit swollen on top and red.....WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME?  I am so impulsive!  I always do things and don't really think about them until after!  If that has caused me to get back into the boot for another month.....I will need to get on an antidepressant! 

Third day.....I only did yard work.

Fourth day....I did my kickboxing again and rode the stationary bike for an hour.   

So much for 20 minutes every other day on the bike.... Why can't I just be patient?  

I hr on the bike and .5 on the elliptical.  My 4 yr old was a nag today.  I kept having to take care of him instead of exercising.  I was planning on 20 minutes on the elliptical, but I could hear him screaming from upstairs to "come wipe my bum." ha!  Called it a day after that!  

Heading to southern Utah for the weekend....YEEEHHAW! 

I'm sooooo excited!  I will be running Boston in April! Yippeeee!  I have been waiting and waiting.  We were on our way back from southern Utah and a friend of mine texted that has been waiting to hear too.  She is 40 and ran it in 3:46 and she needed 3:50.  I needed 3:45 and came in at 3:41, so we were both about the same qualifying time.  She got an email.  I still haven't got an email but I am on the entrant list!  The only turned away about 2000 qualifiers.....I have been feeling sad for them all day.....but happy for me! 

Foot is still bothering me!  I don't know if I should just throw the boot back on for 2 weeks or what?  I really want to get better.  My fat butt is putting too much pressure on these bones of mine. I slowly keep gaining..dang it!

I had to get out and enjoy this weather today.  I have been trying so hard to stay in all week! I have been riding the stationary bike every morning for an hour before my kids are up.  Kickboxing today and then after taking my 4 yr old to preschool, I just couldn't stay away from the Bells Canyon Trail any longer.  

I ran down to the trailhead from my house and started up.  Almost to the lake when I heard a rattle and saw the tail of a snake close to where my foot had been.  It started heading down the side of the mountain just off the trail.  It scared the beejeevers out of me!  I started to shudder and thought I was going to puke.  I got to the top and I usually head around the lake but I saw another hiker and she was heading down and I told her to watch out for the rattlesnake that was just a bit from the top.  I was too afraid to head around the lake by myself after that and headed back down with her.  As we got close to the spot that I saw and heard the snake, I told her we were close to where the snake was and just then it started rattling at us and she ran by and I was screaming! ha!  She looked back off the trail and told me that I should be okay if I ran past it that it was far enough from the trail that it probably couldn't bite me.  I ran up on the side, it was rattling and I was shaking!  I have NEVER seen a snake up there only cute, little lizards and squirrels!  Creeped out!  My foot is now hurting me....crap!