Recovering from micro-fracture surgery :(

NADA!  It is a big, fat, lazy Amy day and I don't care! :)

Ran a half marathon in 2 hours with my nephew.  Great day!  

I ate a good breakfast, drank a protein shake on my way to meet my nephew and chewed down a cran-razz Shot Blok at mile 6.  I think I have been feeling crappy because I have been trying to lose the 4 pounds that I gained while I sat around while my foot was healing for 2 months.  It just isn't working and I am tired of always feeling hungry!  I'm going to change my blog name to fatandhappy! :)

It is toooooo cold to run outside this morning!

20 minutes on the bike

1 mile warm up

5 in 40:47

walked .6 until my hr on the dreadmill was up.

I thought I was going to puke after my 5 miler...I did sprints at 6.6 to 6 min miles and jogged at 8.5 to 9 min miles in between to cool down.  I won't lie...sad, but true, the 8 min mile ave. kicked my trash!  I don't like running on the treadmill, but it does make me pay more attention to my speed.  I'm getting in a little bit better shape.  It is going to take me until Boston to get there.  I hope my 4 pounds comes off along the way! :)

 I watched the new Fame while I ran. I bought it for my daughter to watch because she loves dance.  I thought I would watch it first just to make sure it was okay for her to see....BORING!  I think that made my treadmill hour longer than normal! ha!

My kickboxing class about killed me yesterday!  I still am in pain after the endless squats, lunges, pushups, situps, kicks, and punches!  I have been doing this class twice a week for over a month now and it is still kicking my butt!

I rode the bike for 20 to try to loosen my incredibly sore legs.   I got on the treadmill and ran a mile warm up and 5 in 41 again, then walked until I had to drive my little guy to preschool.  My legs are so sore and are killing me!  I am thinking that cross training is not such a great idea!

 Good thing is that I bought The Help yesterday and waited for my dreadmill workout to watch it.  I am finishing the rest of it on my bed with my sore legs elevated!  What will help get rid of SORE legs???   

Ran 13.1 in 1:59 with my nephew and his friend.  Running with two, 21 yr old boys was fuuun! We laughed the whole time.  We decided to make it 14 and ran the last mile as a cool down.  

Ran 6 at my mom and dads this morning after taking my son to the doctor.  He broke his foot last week at Taekwondo...doing some kind of jump-kick.  

It felt like I was running hard and really fast....haha!!  I'm not even going to say what I ran it in!  

 My two youngest are fighting and crying.  Time to throw them in the tub and get the 7 yr olds reading/math done. I need to clean up the kitchen from dinner and I have a two loads of laundry needing to be folded and calling my name.  Yeehaaaw!  I am super excited! ha! 

Kickboxing/shoveling!

I hurt my foot.....the same foot.....at kickboxing last Wednesday.  I guess I really shouldn't be kicking a large bag with the top of my foot when I have a cyst and just healed from a stress fracture.   I haven't been on the blog because I was so mad about it!!!  It hurt to walk again and was aching most of the day, every day.  I didn't run on Thurs or Friday.  It was feeling a bit better on Saturday and I thought I  would head out for a run on Saturday morning, but my husband got paged into the hospital because someone had just died that was a donor and he needed to go and make sure all of the organs were healthy enough to be used for transplants.  Sad day that someone lost his life before Christmas, but whomever it was gave some wonderful gifts for those waiting for a new life.  

I quickly threw on my running clothes and drove my daughter downtown for dance at the Capital Theatre.  It was soooooo cold.  The car said it was 22 and I sat in the car with my seat heater on procrastinating until it warmed up...but it never did!  I guy runner passed my car and I thought I better get my lazy butt out and into the cold.  

 I ran around the Salt Lake Temple and old Tabernacle, Joseph Smith Memorial Bldg., it was beautiful.  The Mormon Tabernacle Choir music was playing on the grounds.  Brides were out in their white gowns and everyone was there taking pictures.  It was a fun time to go and run around the grounds.  It made me think of my wedding day, and it also made me think about my family history.  My great, great, great grandfather Wilford Woodruff was the 4th president of the church.  I thought of how the media has recently said how the members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day-Saints aren't Christians.  I also heard some people on the news saying that it is too bad that all of the Mormons weren't all killed by the mobs in Illinois.  Mormons have endured a lot.   I think it is great that two "Mormons" are running for president.  I wish now that I would have graduated in political science in college.  I just love politics and history and can't seem to get enough of them.  

For being a "non-Christian" three of the probably 30 couples that have been through our house that is for sale have told the real estate agent that we have too many pictures of Christ in our house and that we should take them down.  

We didn't have any family pictures that were good enough to send out as a Christmas card.  My husbands brother took 3 pics at my 7 yr olds dance performance.   My 13 yr old wasn't smiling in ANY of them! This was the best of the bunch and it just had to do.  He was ready to leave and didn't want to be there in the first place.  What do you do with an ornery teenager? 

Merry Christmas!!!  In case you can't see it.....it says MISTLETOE! :) 

I chased everyone around at my family party with my home-made kiss snatcher!  :D

I ran 5 in 39:29 on the dreadmill this morning.   

5.5 outside around Little Cottonwood in the beautifully clean air!  It was so nice to be able to see the valley and not feel like I was giving myself lung cancer with every breath! 

Gorgeous day! Started out early in the teens, I finished in the 20s.  It was cooooold!  Ran 13.1 in 1:50 exactly.  I really wanted to get under 1:50, but couldn't do it today.  I really just wanted to beat my last half marathon run of 1:59 with my nephew since he cancelled on me again this morning.  I texted him as soon as I got home just to bug him! ha!  

 I hope everyone has a Merry Christmas!!! 

Around Little Cottonwood

Bike for one hour and core workout

Heading out for 8 right now.  I have everything from Christmas put away.  It has taken me about 2 full days! I decided that I am not putting up Christmas next year! ha!  I wouldn't let myself get out for a run until all of the crappy work around here was done!  I am heading out around Little Cottonwood and up and around Bengal Blvd and back....weather is not looking so hot.  I wish the sun was out! I hope the kids all survive while I am out and the fighting is kept to a minimum! Ended up doing 8.5...yeehooooooo

 Off to see my daughter dance in the Nutcracker downtown for about the 6th time this week. 5 more performances to go...... 

I am worn out today! 3 days of working out in a row and my body is wiped!  I think I will take the day off since I have to spend the day downtown and I am running 13.1 again tomorrow.  I need some energy.  My old, bod just doesn't get back in shape like it used to.  I'm hoping my bod can get it together by April 16th!

13.1 in 1:48:52 -- Crappy, no good run today!  I wasn't in the mood to head out, no energy, no one to run with.......got ready and pushed myself today.  I knew I was in trouble by the time that I hit the mouth of Little Cottonwood Canyon about .7 from my house.  I am usually still chattering from the cold and today I was already in a sweat.  I was wishing I had my short, running shorts on with a tank.  

Took off my sweaty hat and gloves at mile 4 at my pit stop at the Smith's on Bengal Blvd. and chewed down half of a Shot Blok.  Mile 5, I started to have stabbing pains in my left ovary.  Guys just don't have the same cyclic problems that women do and it just isn't fair.  I thought I was going to die of pain by mile 6...I had to stop and walk and about 6.5, I almost stopped a car to take me home or to the ER.  I was in so much pain....by mile 7...I thought I was going to die, the cyst must have popped and it started not hurting as bad.  By mile 8.5, the pain was gone.  I have had this happen to me several times, sometimes it is during races.  It seems to happen more when I am pushing myself.  Really,  it is not fair that guys don't have to worry about when the race day is and where their cycle is and how their body will react.  

I pushed myself the entire run, I really wanted to come in under 1:50 so that I could beat my last weeks run since I was running the exact same course.  I felt that I was pushing myself too hard.  I thought I was going to puke from mile 11 on.  I kept getting hot and it felt like my legs were going to crack they were hurting so bad.  I think it is interesting how different the exact same run can be one week later.  Last week I pushed myself, but I felt great through the whole run and thought I could run another 5 after I had finished.  This run, I was never so glad to have it be over and I laid on my parents living room floor and thought I was going to puke for about 10 minutes after the run.  

I did meet my goal...I ran it in just more than a minute faster than last week. :) 

I'm wondering how I ever ran a full marathon after a run like today! 

My hub was sick with the stomach flu last night.  I am still feeling sick. I hope it is just from a hard run and I am not getting the flu too! yuck!