Category: Slacker

Weekly Recap 11-Slap Happy

Upcoming Races:

Livermore 13.1 -March 26!!
Destination Races Santa Barbara 13.1- May 13
Rock N Roll San Diego 13.1 June 4

So yeah, last week was odd. Don’t get me wrong, it was a good week. I got a lot done at work, more things were completed in preparation for the merger- those all turned into funny situations too. I got in a good run and a creepy run. My stomach was a total asshat at the beginning of the week and I was abnormally tired but I was in a super good mood most of the week. Maybe I should have realized that was a sign of things to come but I’ve never been too good at actually listening to my body. I mean for crying out loud Friday’s post went up unfinished! Sorry about that by the way. 😞

Monday- 4.25 miles– I love daylight savings. I headed to home town after work and was able to run this entire run in full sunlight. I took it really slow in the beginning as this was my first run in the new PureFlow’s. From there I ended up running a nice (for these days) progressive 4 miles- 13:22, 11:04, 10:37, 9:06. I say these days because that same day Timehop also reminded me that 3 years previously I set my unofficial 5K PB of 26:35. Which is a far cry from the 11:00 ave pace of this run.

Tuesday- Rest/ Detox Yoga– I got so damn tired on the drive home from work that I stopped at Target and wandered around it a bit in order to wake up. My stomach had been horrible since Sunday so once home I tried some yoga to help ease some of the pressure.

Wednesday- Rest- Stretching/Foam Rolling– My stomach was still being a total butt face and work went a little late so I just decided a low key night was in order.

Thursday- 3.5 miles- Creeper alert! I headed to the lake path after work and was hoping for 5 miles. There were more people out taking advantage of the extra daylight. My legs were a little sore. I’d worn flats a couple days this week plus breaking in the PureFlow’s with 4mm drop made for some sore calves. Not enough to deter my run though. What did was the creeper in the gold Thunderbird who slowed while driving past me then parked blocking my path. Cars park on the path all the time so I wasn’t totally weird-ed out yet, only halfway there. When I ran around the car, which reeked of pot and engine grease, as I cleared it- it revved the engine. It then peeled out, spinning dirt everywhere, slowed while passing me again before squealing it’s tires again as it turned up a street. All right, peace out, I’m done. It might have had nothing to do with me but I wasn’t taking that chance. I managed to find a group of Eagle scouts out for a stroll and put myself in front of them. I tried to stay near their group while I got back to my car but I also didn’t want to turn into the creeper.

Friday- Rest- I worked open to close and towards the end of the day I was getting slap happy. I was having troubles putting words together properly. Which should have been a sign. Some people get cranky when they are getting sick, I get slap happy. Yet it still didn’t dawn on me until that night when my throat really started hurting, my nose stopped working and pressure built between my ears. Oh crap.

Saturday/ Sunday- Sick My alarm went off for my long run on Saturday morning but I could barely move. Seriously, my face hurt where the ends of my hair touched it. My whole body ached there was no way I was running 10-11 miles. I shut it off and thought maybe I could run in the afternoon, ha! I barely moved all day. I may have watched more than a few episodes of The Iron Fist on Netflix. Sunday rolled around and while I hurt a little less I was nowhere near running shape. Boo.

So yeah, 7.75 miles for the week. I am trying not to freak out while I type that. I have Livermore Half in just 7 days and I really wanted another double digit run before race day. Plus that weekly mileage looks sad. This was not the week I had been planning. I’d actually planned on moving back to running 4x a week but instead I ran just twice. Grrr.

And now I still can’t breathe and my eyes are crossing as I finish this recap. So with that I will sign off.

Tell me about your week?

Do anything fun this weekend?

Rambling On 6

What up Friday?! Woot Woot!

Ok, that was cheesy. Sorry, it’s been an odd week.

So today is St. Patrick’s Day but it seems like everyone partied last weekend? I was a little stumped by some things I saw on social media. Then again, I’m kind of homebody so maybe I was the only clueless one. I mean I can understand why you wouldn’t want to race the morning after St. Patrick’s Day. Just ouch.

A sinkhole opened in work town! Holy crap! It’s a small one but seriously those things only happen on tv in other places. So weird. And freaky.

Speaking of freaky, have seen that Kripsy Kreme is making green donuts for today? Ummm, I think they went too far.

Part of me wants to run a 5K this weekend. Part of me wants to sleep in. Am I really that lazy? Or that I doubt my follow through for running another 8 miles after that to finish my long run.

What are you doing this weekend?

Anyone racing? Any parties?

Anyone sleeping in? 😛

Week 8 Recap- Sleepy Time

Training for:

Livermore 13.1 -March 26
Destination Races Santa Barbara 13.1- May 13

This was a blink and you missed it week but it wasn’t without its own headaches. That said it wasn’t a bad week it was just odd. Well unless you count me finding out that someone has already filed a tax return using my social. 😒

Monday- Nada– I had big plans to run but it was cold and windy and I just couldn’t make myself get out the door. I usually love having Mondays off so I can get in a good run but the cold front rolling in just made me a big baby. My toes have been so damn cold!

Tuesday- Rest- The work day was straight chaos. With the power issues last Friday and this being the first day back after a 3 day weekend, things were nuts. I wore a pair of old faithful boots but by the end of the day my feet hurt so bad that I wanted to cry. My shoes turned on me!

Wednesday- 2.7 miles- I headed out for my usual post work route run. Except I hadn’t taken into account the cold and the wind. I wasn’t dressed right with just capris and a long sleeve. The winds were in excess of 20 mph and they almost took my Buff off my head twice. My wool Buff that I recently accidentally dried. I hit the spot where I take the sunset pics and decided it was too cold and turned around to head for the car.

Funny moment on the way back- if I am coming up on an intersection the same time as a vehicle or two and don’t want to play the “no you go, no you go” game, I stop before and stretch or fake tie my shoe. This time one of those cars was a cop car and I guess they thought I looked shady. I got the stink eye for a moment when I straightened back up. 😛 Nothing to see here, move along. Even though when I damn near had an asthma attack 2 blocks later on a street corner I was wishing they could come back.

Thursday- 5 miles. Blood work test fail #1. Doctor said that I did not need to fast for a glucose test. He even wrote it on the work order. I took time off work in the afternoon and headed back to home town for the testing. He was wrong, the lab refused to do the testing. Grrr. Now what? I went running! I dressed a little smarter this time but could have used another layer. I’ve determined that as long as we have rain in the forecast, speed is not likely because my lungs just can’t handle the moisture in the air. No sooner do I accept that than Strava informs me that I broke my previous record for 400m and wasn’t even trying…

Friday- Rest Glucose test fail #2. And then success. I tried to get the process started in work town before work but was unable to, the line was insane. Luckily my boss is awesome so once everyone got to work I went back to the lab and got the process started. And then went back and forth for the next 3+ hours. I didn’t finish the glucose testing until 1:30. By then I was hangry and already bruising. My lunch was around 2 and I went through a drive thru intending to treat myself to some french fries but I ended up being lured by a picture of giant burger so I ordered that and some fries. Instead of feeling stuffed after eating it, I still felt oddly empty. It was very odd. I was so hungry all day.

Saturday- Rest. I crashed hard the night before around 9:30 which is odd for me. Normally I am up late reading and catching up on tv on Friday nights. I slept for 12 hours! It wasn’t un-interrupted but that’s a little ridiculous! Even when I did get up and get going I had zero energy. After doing a few errands I ended up taking a long nap. I had planned on running both Saturday and Sunday but decided that my body was trying to tell me something.

Sunday- Rest Yeah, this was just a total lack of motivation on my part. I kept telling myself to change and get out the door for 10 miles but I couldn’t actually do it. It was cold and my toes were frozen in my slippers in my house and no matter how much I berated myself I couldn’t make myself run. I just kept pushing it back later and later. #longrunfail

7.7 miles for the week. I’m not going to say ouch because missing my long run was entirely up to me. Was a case of the blah’s worthy of missing a long run? Maybe, maybe not. Only time will tell. I do know I am over the cold weather. Timehop keeps showing me pics from last year and I was running in shorts and a tank. I miss those days. This weird cold front and crazy wind, rain just needs to take a break. I’m not saying it’s entirely responsible for my lagging motivation but it’s part of it.

How was your week?

Do you have warm weather? Wanna share?

Rambling On 3

I really like these brain clearing posts. Or maybe I’ve just been so scattered lately that they help me loosen some knots in my brain. 😛

Happy Friday!!!

I was supposed to run a half marathon this weekend but the Slacker in me forgot to take into account the extra time needed to get every runner security clearance to run on a army base. Slacker fail. But then with all the rain that is predicted to fall over the next 5 days maybe that was a good thing?

My road to work is open and it is freaking awesome. It’s still under construction in the mornings and there are little mountains of dirt everywhere- they removed 20,000 tons of rock and dirt from the hillside!!- but it’s open!! That was the longest month. That longer drive was really getting to me.

So Monday was interesting. I was on the street side of the building when I heard a loud noise outside. We all looked outside to see what was going on. A truck had just driven over a big dip in the street and looked to be dragging something under it. Had it lost part of its engine? It slowed then blew through the intersection without stopping. By now we are all staring out the windows, then my coworker looked out the door and it all became clear. Dude has slammed into her parked car, tore it up and continued driving! He was dragging pieces of her car! WTF dude?!

I went for a run on Tuesday. Wasn’t the best but I mean come on…look at this…just awesome.

I redesigned my blog. Still working out a few kinks. But be honest, how do you read this? Phone? Laptop? WordPress app? Bloglovin?

I’ve had to reassess my training for a few reasons. More on that in my weekly recap but I think finally admitting it has lessen my stress level a bit.

It’s a 3 day weekend, woo hoo!!!! Is it sad that I am looking forward to sleep the most? Then running?

Do you have a 3 day weekend? What are you doing?

How do you read blogs?

Ever observe something crazy?

Week 6- Ouch- Fail

Training for:

Livermore 13.1 -March 26
Destination Races Santa Barbara 13.1- May 13

Did anyone else have an odd week last week? Did it seem freaky long and just off for no real reason? Everyone at work seemed to feel it too. I know there was a full moon on Friday but still the whole week was just odd.

Monday- Rest- Last week saw a wealth of knowledge drop on us at work- all merger related. It started today with a meeting with the new CEO. It was a good meeting but I was kind of fried by the end of the day, I can’t remember what I did when I got home. 😞

Tuesday- Gym Fail- Work was a little busy but overall the rain and the highway closure is keeping us a little slower. I changed after work and planned on heading home for some #bibchat and hitting the gym for intervals. What the hell? Traffic was ridiculous. It was raining but nothing like it has been lately but I didn’t get back to home town until almost 7. So much for #bibchat. Ok, gym time. Every single treadmill was taken. What?! I admit I gave up. I bailed. I headed home and ordered a pizza.

Wednesday- 4 miles– After the previous day’s snafu, I decided to do another baby tempo at work. Except when I set out I realized I has somehow lost my inhaler the night before. For crying out loud. Ok, so no speed work. The marine layer was heavy so running without my inhaler was probably asking for trouble but I really needed to run. I kept it nice and easy but even with the slower pace, my breathing still sounded like I was sprinting, ha. The marine layer holds light pretty well so I pushed further into the state park and was able to make it to the Natural History Museum before I had to turn back. I love running though the eucalyptus grove.

Thursday- Ouch– I woke up to some not so good pain in my left leg. And not the typical shin variety pain. I took my running clothes to work but when it didn’t get better throughout the day I conceded defeat and decided to make it a rest day.

Friday- More ouch– My leg still hurt. It was isolated to the inside of my left ankle and I was starting to freak out a little. I also figured I knew what did it. While I loved running the trails through the eucalyptus grove on Wednesday, I shouldn’t have done it in my Nike’s. While I love my Nike’s for speed work, they are not big on traction, they have very smooth bottoms and the trails were pretty slick and muddy from all the rain. But I was having fun in the moment.

Saturday- More of the same– Good thing I decided it was too muddy to that run that 10k! I opted for active rest and wandered around SLO doing some shopping and consoling myself with some amazing pizza. I may have spent too much money at Lululemon. 😛 The clearance rack was just too tempting.

Sunday- 9 miles I had rested for 3 days, what was my ankle going to do??? I knew I was going to be slow and that was fine. I was stiff for the first few miles which is typical but I made sure to focus on my ankle and walk anytime I felt more than a twinge. Overall I felt ok. I picked up the pace a bit across the bridge per usual and indulged with a little river watching when I made it down to the river bed. Everything was going ok until a little past mile 6. Then things went south real fast. I was hustling to cross an intersection before a car and I suddenly felt ill. I had to pause for a breather rather than be sick and even when I got going I had to walk a lot. I felt very crappy for the last 3 miles, it was all I could to finish. If I could have bailed sooner I would have but it’s not like I was getting to the car any other way. My lungs were abnormally pissed too. They were angrier then they had been on Wednesday but I had found my inhaler so what gives? I wasn’t quite right the rest of the evening either which is why this post is a day late.

13 miles for the week. Once again, I missed workouts. Grrr. Between merger stuff, crazy rain, and my weird dizzy, nausea spells, I feel like I’ve turned into a giant flake. My lab work should be done next week but knowing my luck it won’t show anything. I’m not even sure what I should keep my fingers crossed for? This year is Challenging in me in different ways than I planned. I broke down crying in a meeting with my boss last week. Get it together!

Anyways, moving on to a shiny new week. One good thing— my road is open again!!!!! 30 less miles a day!!! It’s the little things right?

How was your week?

Ever bailed on a workout when you were in workout clothes already?

Tell me something shiny!