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Week 22- June?!?

Upcoming Races:

Rock N Roll San Diego 13.1-June 4

Wait, it’s June? And race week? Someone really needs to slow the clock down. Or I’ll take a Time Turner, wouldn’t it be nice if those were real? 😛

I suffered from vacation brain and just burn out this week. Everything seemed so much harder than it should have been. Seriously, I had troubles counting. That’s not a good thing in my line of work. I had to count things multiple times. While I love 4 day work weeks, there is still 5 days worth of work to fit into those 4 days. Years ago I had a coworker tell me she hated 3 day weekends because she spent all of Monday stressing about the increased workload on Tuesday. I won’t complain about 3 days off but I am beginning to see her point.

I mentioned in my last post that I may have ordered myself a new Garmin. It’s here!! It’s so pretty, now I am just trying to figure out the bells and whistles.

Monday- 2.74 miles Ugly. I decide to try the Roga’s again and once again it was a bad idea. I eventually gave up attempting to run and just walked it back to my house. It felt a waste of the extra time off work. I did take the dog out for a short walk later but it was super short and slow.

Tuesday- Rest With work typically being crazy busy and now being down a person ( my coworker had the baby!) I didn’t even try to run. I thought about riding the bike when I got home but thinking is as far as it got.

Wednesday- Rest Oh hey, I have a race in 4 days. I started to do the math and realized that if ran today and Thursday like planned, I would have more miles than previous weeks. That didn’t seem like the best idea. Granted my miles have been so low that a taper seems silly but it still didn’t seem smart to suddenly increase them on race week. Then my brother decided to take the family to dinner so I figured it all worked out, right?

Thursday- 3.22 miles Ok dinner was a bad idea, it made me sick. At first I thought it was just my stomach being an asshat but I later found out that my dad was kind of sick too and we ate the same thing. There was a point I wasn’t sure I was going to be able to run at all. Yet, I changed and headed for home town. Once I got there I realized it was 85 degrees and I had somehow forgotten a water bottle. Lovely. Then somehow this run kicked ass. I decided to keep it shorter and slower than planned due to lack of hydration and heat and managed to stick to one of those. 😛 I ended up running my fastest 5K in the last 6 months. Still slow as I made sure to take walk breaks every 2 minutes but my legs felt great! Where did that come from?!

Friday- Rest Total vacation brain, stress ball. I was trying to get everything done so no one had to worry about anything while I was gone and I was stressing out. I love vacations but the type A in me hates not being there.

Saturday- Road trip!! Oh good lord, it took 7 hours to get to San Diego. Traffic, you suck. Once we were finally there we headed straight for the Convention Center and the Expo. Bib pickup and shirt pick up was a cinch then it was into the crowd. I figured we were so late most people would have already picked up their stuff…nope! People everywhere! I was able to meet up with Mai of Once Upon A Run and Chelsea of The Dancing Runner, which was awesome! Then it was of to Seaport Village for a Bibrave Pro meetup with Mai and Emily of azSunGoddess.

Finally we checked into our hotel- literally across the street from the finish line festival- before heading out for some food. I tried to go sleep early as I knew I had a really early wake up call but I was realizing that you really could eat too much pizza. Food and I did not get along this week. 😭

Sunday- Rock n Roll San Diego 13.1 Recap to come. But for the first time, I took a race shuttle to the start. Look at me being all runner like. 😛

19.2 miles for the week. I meant to ride the bike but it just never happened. I wasn’t too busy I just didn’t make it a priority. Next week.

Speaking of next week, I have the week off!! Woo hoo! I have so many things I need and should get done but I also kind of want to spend a day or 2 doing nothing. Which one will win?

How was your week?

Do anything fun this weekend?

What do you do on Stay-cations?

Rambling On 9

Happy Friday ~~Eve!~~

Nope, it’s Friday now. 😛

I am so looking forward to a 3 day weekend. I have so many things I need to do. My car has reached a ridiculous level of dirty again. And I probably should get in a long run. Seems like a smart thing to do with a race next week.

So I bought a new sports bra. Realized it was past time to replace some of mine but the store had very few in my size. Guess it’s a popular size? The only color they had was white, kind of boring but whatever. Then I wore it. Makes no sense but I felt weird having my straps show. Purple, coral or flowers and I have no problem but something about the white made me want to cover it up! That doesn’t even make sense!

My stomach has been an asshat of a different level this week. I was having a pretty good month- still sick everyday but having a good month- but this week the right side has been hurting abnormally. Not cool. I’m pretty good at ignoring pain and it’s nothing too severe but it’s not a normal spot. Boo.

I’m debating seeing a movie this weekend. I’m on the fence about the new Pirates movie and can’t decide if it’s worth the expense. Part of me also wants to go car shopping. nothing wrong with my car, I’ve just had it for 3 years. That sounds bad I know but this is car number 10… no 9. Crap, I’ve lost count.

Random- Did you know that Luffa’s are a vegetable? I had no idea. I feel like I know nothing now. So you shower with a vegetable? Huh?

What are your plans this weekend?

Week 20- Oddly Inspired

Upcoming Races:

Rock N Roll San Diego 13.1-June 4

I planned to take it a bit easy this week post Wine Country Half but other than some soreness in my quads on Sunday and Monday, I was feeling pretty good. I’ve been fighting some achiness in my left leg though so I am trying to be smart for once with another half in a few weeks.

Work was busy last week, meetings galore and more to come this week. Thursday started an hour and a half early- damn that was a long day. Guess one plus to no longer being salary is that I actually get overtime for crazy days like that. 😛

Monday- 3 miles I had new shoes- Adidas UltraBoost X to break in so I was looking forward to my run after work. These are different than my past shoes in that they have a ton of arch support. I took these miles slow as my feet were not entirely on board with the change. I had to stop and listen the shoelaces as they felt super tight. By the end of the run my left foot was on board, my right was still protesting. I wasn’t worried about it though because it always takes me a while to break in new shoes.

Tuesday- 4 miles AMGEN rolled into work town so we closed early and got the heck out of town before the chaos got too bad. I had big plans for a Tuesday 10K at the lake but when I got there I didn’t want to run there. So I drove to home town and the river path. was still looking forward to the extra time to run but my legs were not on board. They were stiff and just felt like boards. I gave them until mile 3 to warm up. When I still had dead legs at that point I called it at 4 miles. It wasn’t happening and pushing it wasn’t likely to be beneficial.

Wednesday- Rest After the dead legs of the day before, I figured I’d listen to my legs and take a day off of running. I planned on some cross training but yeah, that didn’t happen.

Thursday- 2.6 miles I had 2 meetings at work and it ended up being a 10 hour work day. My last meeting was in home town though so I rushed home and changed super fast to get out the door for a run. It was in the 80’s but it felt ok. I wore the Adidas again but this time with thinner socks to see if made a difference. It did but it wasn’t all good. On the flats and uphills, the shoes felt great but on downhills I was sliding all over the place inside the shoes. That said, my legs felt great and I felt like I could have kept running but I forgot why I don’t run my neighborhood around 6- the elementary school is a death trap. 😕

Friday- Rest Friday brain had definitely set in. I planned to cross train after work but again, that didn’t happen.

Saturday- 3.1 miles I planned a low key weekend hoping I could catch up on the sleep I’ve been short on for 3 weeks. I knew that may mess up my long run but I was ok with that. I woke with my alarm, turned it off and went back to sleep. Oops. I headed out around 3:30 for a short, slow run. It was mid 90’s when I started so I my only plan was to take it slow and just start acclimating to the heat. And to force myself to wear my Stride shorts. 😛 My legs felt great but yeah it was warm out there. I wanted to run more but considering 70’s killed me at SLO, I forced myself to keep it short.

Sunday- 8 miles bike Did you forget I had a stationary bike? I kind of did too. Last time I was on it was December. My bad. I stayed up late reading on Saturday night which meant an early morning run did not happen. I still thought about heading out for 6 miles around 3 but it was 95. Combine that with a sudden re-occurrence of the damn achy left leg and I chose another option. However, I haven’t gotten my fan out of the shed and didn’t use the air conditioner so the room felt like a sauna while I was riding. 😛

Miles- Run 12.7 Bike 8 Ok so the miles don’t show it, but hot damn people, look at this week! I worked out 5 times! Do you know the last time that happened? Because I don’t. Surprisingly, I also feel like I caught up on a little sleep and I checked a few things off of my to do list. Say what?! I don’t know what came over me last week but I kind of like it. Will it continue or was it a one time fluke? I’ve been struggling with motivation this year and I’m kind of over it. I just want to run… and I need that feeling to last longer than this week. Oh and I wore shorts 3 out of 4 runs! It the little things right?

How was your week?

What’s your weather like?

Anyone race?

Rambling On 8

Friday!!!! Yay!!! Oh wait, it’s Thursday. But it’s my Friday, I have a 3 day weekend! Woot Woot!

I’ve started this post multiple times over the past 2 weeks but dozed off while writing it…oops! I’ve been so damn tired these past 2 weeks. I have no idea what’s up. Can I blame the weather? This is the weirdest damn May I can remember. On day it’s on fire, the next it’s freezing and misting. Grrr, just pick one already, me and my allergies can’t take it.

I think the universe is telling me to watch less tv, half the newer shows I watched this year were canceled. With Bones and Grimm gone too, my background distractions are all gone. How can I multitask now? 😛

Work has been going well with the new company. Yeah we have our days of “huh?” but for the most part things are going well. It’s hard to complain when they treat to breakfast and lunch. 🙂 Well, my waistline may have some complaints soon but yumm.

Share something random!

What are you looking forward to?

Week 17- Surprise Race

Upcoming Races:

Destination Races Santa Barbara 13.1- May 13
Rock N Roll San Diego 13.1-June 4

I had a plan coming into this week but was thrown an unexpected curve ball towards the middle that slowed me down. And left me craving burgers- seriously, I ate 3 this week. 😛 Maybe I should avoid the scale for a bit? Or should I just call it carb loading? Except that’s a bit excessive.

We got new alarms at work this week. Which would be awesome if we didn’t keep setting them off. Grrr. Speaking of work- a few weeks back I mentioned that I hit 10 years but I thought with the company change it would go unnoticed. On Friday, I learned differently-

Monday- 2.5 miles Since Sunday’s run had been such a hot mess, I kept this short. I also ran in the Sayonara’s again for the first time since the knee pain. I wanted to see what happened. It’s official, the shoes are toast. Even 2.5 miles was too far in them. Boo.

Tuesday- Rest Yeah, my knee was not happy. Sayonara Sayonara’s.

Wednesday- Rest Surprise! I recently randomly quit birth control for some heath reasons and it’s been an interesting ride. I’ve been taking it since I was 16 so I’ve been feeling a little all over the place. Wednesday was the start of my first real time of the month in years. And it jacked up my week. 😛 Plus sent me into a burger craving spiral.

Thursday- 3.55 miles This run felt so hard. I kept an easy pace throughout but it felt so damn hard and I was so tired. I blame hormones. I also changed the way I lace the Brooks to see if that helped with my arches. Why it took me so long to remember to do that, I have no idea. I did it with all my PureFlow 4’s, these would probably be similar. Silly Slacker. It was also insanely windy for this run.

Friday- Rest– This week just felt long and it was time to prepare for my weekend plans. I had some odd leg pain though. I have it every time I up my mileage though so I wasn’t overly concerned just more annoyed.

Saturday- RaceSLO packet pickup I needed to run 12 miles this weekend but we all know I haven’t been doing so well with following through with that. So I figured why not add a mile and run a local half on Sunday instead? Sounds like a great idea right? I did enjoy some amazing carb-loading though. 😛

Sunday- SLO Half Marathon- 13.1 miles Recap to come but let’s just say that my morning started like this-

19.2 miles for the week. Much better than last week if still a little rough in places. I have a work heavy week this week so getting in the miles is going to be tricky so let’s see how I do!

How was your week?

What did you eat this week?