Tag: lazy

Going on a week now

I last ran one week ago today. It was a pretty good 4.5 miles and I was looking forward to a long run a few days later. I had a plan, right?

In my previous posts I talked about being sick. Ugh, but I was optimistic that I would be better soon and able to get back to running. Tuesday morning I woke up and still felt crappy. My boss had a morning meeting so I made the trek into work, hoping I could leave when she arrived. I was hoping that another half day of rest would be enough to kick whatever was wrong. By late Tuesday evening I knew that was wishful thinking. 😦 I called in sick for Wednesday. Let me clarify by saying that I don’t call in sick. I can count on one hand with fingers left over the times I have called in sick in the last 7 years. Same for the previous job of 10 years. Now with my previously mentioned stomach issues, I have gone home early or come in a few hours late. But calling in? Very, very rare.

The plan was to get as much sleep as possible on Wednesday and feel better by Thursday. I woke up at 8:30 AM, and could not fall back asleep. WTF? I made it from the bed to the Comfy chair. My eyes were so swollen I could barely see (TMI?). I thought maybe I should call the doctor. So an appointment was made for 4:00. I dozed off and on in the chair until then. I was feeling really rough, so my pops had to drive me to the doctor. My mother later drove me to get my prescription. Sad but true, and I am very thankful. I looked like such a creature I kept my sunglasses on in the waiting room until I was in an exam room. That’s when I noticed this-

Even with beginning the medication, today was another sick day. 😦 More time spent in the chair with a blanket. Temperatures outside hit a record high for January (90º!) and I was covered up with a blanket. I did get some reading in though-

After that, it was time for an Arrow marathon with my eyes half shut. Now my goal is to get some more rest and hopefully make it to work tomorrow. Then, work on Saturday. Fingers crossed I will feel up to some really slow miles this weekend. Which, thankfully is a 3 day weekend. I have to run off the almost full bag of Lay’s I have consumed in the last 3 days. It figures that I get sick and crave crap food.

Good luck to everyone running Disneyland this weekend!

Thanks for listening to me whine 🙂

Treadmill Tuesday

Totally random, but let’s start with this little snippet- Hell froze over!!

Sorry couldn’t help it, but that must be why I made it to the gym two days in a row 🙂 Can we say ugh squared to the treadmill? Maybe it’s because of the circulated air or the fact that you have run while staring at yourself in the mirror but running just seems so much harder.

Last night I slept horribly. First I couldn’t fall asleep and then I tossed and turned. For someone who used to be something of an insomniac, this is not cool. An unexpected bonus to commuting and the crazy insane schedule I had for the first 3-4 months of the year was finally sleeping a little better. I am hoping tonight is better and that last night was just a one off.

6 miles were on the plan for today but I knew that wasn’t likely when I woke up. While getting ready, I figured I could do a 2 mile walk while on lunch and then hit the gym for 3-4 miles after work. That seemed more feasible. As I was walking out the door to go to work, I received a text message. Someone called in sick. 😦 So I canceled the lunch walk with the intention of taking a shorter lunch and getting back to work. Best laid plans right?

We have a Comfy chair at work too, and I sat down after eating my lunch. Then I fell asleep… oops. I had even turned my jacket into a blanket. I woke up almost 40 minutes later. So much for a short lunch, it was just shy of regular. I jumped out of the chair, refilled my water bottle and ran out of the break room. FYI, I also spilled my water 3x today.

I was still tired and was debating even running but I knew I needed to go. Luckily ME emailed me around 4, so I asked her join me. Part of my gym membership is that I can take a guest whenever I want :). She wanted to go, so we planned to meet up as soon as I got back into town. Woo hoo for company! She’s just getting back into things after a nasty bout of strep and I was still tired, so short and sweet it was! 3 steady, solid miles, done! We hadn’t seen each other since before Christmas so we exchanged gifts in the parking lot after. We’re classy like that. 🙂 So, ME is super crafty and she made these adorable earrings for me-

I managed to finally get the Garmin to work on the treadmill. Well, kind of. As you can see in the picture, the mileage was off. Both Nike+ and the treadmill actually agreed for once. The Garmin however was lagging behind. Time for more research on how to get it calibrated properly, or at least as close as I can. I love Google.

I came home and rewarded myself with a nice cold strawberry banana smoothie. I may have killed the blender in the process, it was not a happy camper. Since it’s so heavy, will that count as strength training for the day? Probably not. 😦

How was everyone’s Tuesday?

It’s beginning to look a lot like…

Normally I like Friday the 13th, and I can still say that even after my first car accident years ago that was on Friday the 13th. But yesterday was rough. It started out good, but then a very important piece of equipment broke. Customers were stressed, I was stressed. We called in a tech, then the back office, then the network provider and all 4 of us had a lovely little conference call trying to figure out what the heck went wrong and how to fix it. This felt like it took forever but I think it was about an hour and a half. We finally got it running but still have no idea why it went cuckoo. 😦 I’m saying trickster elves.

We’ve been running a toy and food drive since thanksgiving and look how amazing our customers are-

And this is the third time it has been emptied. It’s been this awesome at all of our locations too. 🙂

Last week, my doctor suggested (ha!) a new diet to see if it helped. I waited to start until this last Monday because I had good food in my fridge and cabinet that I refused to let go bad. Like apples! I will so miss those honeycrisp. 😦 I have been so hungry all week, and after the stress of yesterday, I just wanted pizza, so I picked one up on the way home. 🙂 Yummy. And the ingredients are not on my bad list so I can lie to myself that way right?

Today was spent errand running with a little bit of Christmas shopping. Prior to the shopping lunch was pizza again, but this time it was Red Brick, so totally acceptable. 🙂 After a little procrastinating of the presentation that I need to work on, it was over 60° so I went for a run. I was slow (oops pizza) but it felt good. I even threw in a couple of hills. When I hit the bottom of my driveway, I was close to 5 miles so I did what us crazy runners do and ran another block and back. Finished at 5.26. While I was adding in that little bit extra, i ran passed a house that had an inflatable Santa in the yard. There was also a girl with a bow and arrow. No, Katniss, no!!! Hehe, luckily the Santa was still standing on the return trip.

Tonight was a local holiday tradition, the Vine St Victorian Showcase. It’s also always been a family tradition to go, but tonight it was just me and my mother. We were able to walk there also, so yeah for extra miles. Granted, these ones were a lot colder. The street is blocked off, the houses are decorated, there are carolers and dancers and cotton candy, hot chocolate vendor’s, lots of fun. So to finish out this post, here is what I saw tonight. Hope you enjoy them!

This house is my favorite! I love how the ornaments float between the trees 🙂

Any local or family traditions of your own?

Anyone else get a warmer day?

A little unplanned rest?

So, yeah, this week has been a total mess. If my goal was to be as much of a Slacker as possible, I have succeeded. However, since that was not my goal, big fail!!!!! I have not run since Sunday. Yikes!! I swear I have this kneejerk reaction to challenges, it’s like I try to fail. It has happened twice now with both the plank challenge and the pushup challenge. As I posted before, I set myself a challenge for miles in November and the first week isn’t looking so pretty.

Monday I did not run as I was getting ready for the trip the next day. I did take my running gear with me on Tuesday, hopeful that I could get in a few miles around the area while the girls were playing their tennis match. First sign against this was the tall locked gates and fences prohibiting us from actually getting on campus, let alone to the tennis courts. Once we finally were let in, it was around the 3^rd comment from another coach there that we had to make sure to look out for “unsavories”, which made me think, umm maybe not. I sat in the van for a bit and worked on school work instead and sure enough, some kids tried a stunt until they noticed me still in it. Seriously? That was an exhausting day without running though, so maybe that was a good thing.

ok, this should have been the first clue

As for Wednesday, that was just pure Slacker-ness. I should have taken my gear with me and changed at work and then driven straight to the gym. But I did not. No, I drove all the way home with the intention of changing and then heading out. Well the road to Slacker-ness is paved with good intentions, right? Yep, day 3 with no run. 😦 Tonight was school and with the time change, I can no longer run before class. The road is too narrow to run in the dark. Ugh!!!!

A little pre- dinner road trip photo op.

I have been feeling a little under the weather the past two days but didn’t think much of it. That changed tonight when I became so ill in the class that the teacher stopped class to ask if I was ok. That was then followed by them trying to find me a ride home. The campus is about 30 miles away. Talk about embarrassing. I drove myself home but did leave early. Plans of trying to run tomorrow before work have now been scrapped. This time may be for a good reason but I feel like I have become the excuse queen this week.

I have work tomorrow and Saturday, so at this point I think I will just call this an unplanned rest week. It means I will more than likely not make the miles goal that I set for this week for the Pile on the Miles challenge. 😦 But hopefully some rest, planned or not, will just help me step it up next week and after. As for now, I am resting in my chair watching Glee.

Hope everyone else is having a good week!

Any races this weekend?

A Fresh Start

Seriously, where did November come from? Slow down!!!

It’s been almost 3 weeks since my half marathon and they have been 3 busy, erratic and lethargic weeks. I have had some trouble mustering up motivation lately. I have completed my 3 runs per week like planned but they have not exactly been quality runs. Not to mention that my eating habits have taken a nosedive. Enough is enough.

Today is the bright shiny start of a new month and the end of my lethargy. (Fingers crossed) As today is Friday and work is usually crazier, I did not plan to run just to eat a hell of a lot better than I have been. Mission semi accomplished. It’s a good thing I planned on running tomorrow and not today as I would have had to cancel and that would have just made me cranky.

Last minute pirate…that’s fairy tale right?

Yesterday ( Halloween!), we dressed up and had a potluck and that was the great part of the day. However at 3:30 the network crashed and we lost all internet connectivity. Well crap. We left as usual hoping that it would be fixed by this morning. No such luck. We ran the entire day with no computers. About the only thing the computers could do without the network was tell us the time. And we lost our phones. I think I put more minutes on my cell phone today calling other locations than I have in the last 3 months. Poor phone. So, yeah, work ran over today, I didn’t even get home until almost 8. 😦

I think that part of my ennui was that I really wanted to find another half marathon to do before the end of the year, but couldn’t find one that fit with my schedule or budget. Also with the time change coming, in years past I have always become a much bigger Slacker in November and December. This year I want to be better than previous years, I am hoping that this blog will help keep me accountable! Call me out if I get too lazy!!!!

I have been looking at various running challenges for November and I may do one. I will post when I make up my mind. I want to look more in depth tonight and tomorrow before I decide. I will post when I make up my mind. As for races, Spooner’s Cove 5 mile Trail Run, here I come!!!! C and I are also looking at a 10K Turkey Trot on Thanksgiving morning 🙂

So here’s to be being a little less of a Slacker going forward!

I hope everyone had an amazing Halloween!

Anyone else DVR’ing the New York marathon like me this weekend? I know, I’m a big nerd!