Tag: slacker

Oh, the fresh air!!

I made it to work on Friday, woo hoo! Man, that was tiring. My first phone call left me in a coughing fit. Apparently I hadn’t said that many words together in a few days, ha! 🙂 By the time work was over, I was done. I made the drive home and was off to try and sleep more before work this morning.

Yesterday, I received a smile in the office mail. I haven’t been able to see one of my friends since before Christmas as we haven’t been able to make our schedules work. 😦 Her Christmas present has been in my car for the last 4 weeks. She sent mine on Friday. Such an awesome surprise on a tiring day!! Every runner’s dream, right?

Or one of them at least . Now I just have to decide which race to use it on. 🙂

Today was my Saturday to work so I was up early heading out the door. Normally, this time of year the drive would be green and pretty. Today was just shades of brown. Seriously where is the rain?!!?!?! And I know I will complain when it actually does happen but where is the cold? It was 80 something when I left work and mid seventies when I got home.

After hitting Target and stocking up for the next week, it was time for a run. I had to have a little conversation with myself about it. I could use one more rest day right? No. I was cold, even though if it was warm outside. Wear layers. What if I started coughing? Take water. It’s gonna be hard. Take walk breaks. The floor looks perfect for a nap. Move it, lazy!!! Plus, running today was about more than just me- #megsmiles.

I changed into my brightest clothing and went out for a run. After a week of absolutely zero exercise and 4 days being sick, it was harder than I would have liked but I told myself I could walk anytime the going got tough. And by that I mean my breathing, if I started huffing and puffing, slow down!!!! Especially considering I am still slightly congested. But then when am I not, stupid deviated septum.

It felt good to be outside and moving. My legs were a little stiff but that was to be expected. I initially planned for 3 but added in an extra loop. Overall I think I took 4 walking breaks and was running slower than usual, but it was not the run I had been dreading. Even just putting on my running clothes perked me up. That’s not to say I wasn’t tired. As shown by my complete lack of drive to fully complete 4 miles.

Hmmm, so close to 4, but I was not doing that driveway again, nope, not happening. For today, 3.92 was just fine. I made sure to stretch really well after my run as I hadn’t done much moving lately. Hopefully I can get in a few miles tomorrow as well, plus I still haven’t tested out my new shoes! I’m such a Slacker! I feel like they are taunting me from the box.

Who ran today?

Good luck to all those racing tomorrow!

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 🙂

The Difference in Numbers

It’s almost Friday!!!!

The schedule for Wednesday showed a 5 mile run. However, sleep on Tuesday night while better than Monday was the opposite of good. I was tired and my head hurt so I skipped the run and went for a rest day. Since running 2 days in a row, I was hoping a day off might. No dice. Again with the restless, crappy sleep. I barely managed to drag my tired butt out of bed this morning at 6:40. Why was this bad? I have leave for work by 7:15. If only I could find a way to channel that speed into running. 🙂

Work for the last week has been great all day and then chaos for the last 45 minutes. Is there some weird moon thing going on or something? Today was no different. I also spent over 30 minutes sitting in my car at lunch waiting for a car wash. Apparently I wasn’t the only one running errands on lunch. So now the outside matched the inside. Well, kind of. Now that it looks all shiny and clean, I can see just how badly I cleaned the inside windows. Seriously, I make them look worse after cleaning them.

After the last minute craziness at work, I changed and was ready to hit the gym. Tonight’s run called for an easy 3. However I ended up stuck behind a car going 20 miles under the speed limit who brake checked me every quarter mile. So much for a nice calming commute 😦 So I had some energy to burn by the time I finally made it to the gym. Once again I had the Garmin and Nike+ to track my miles. Combined with my fuel band on the other hand, I probably looked like the biggest gear nerd. The place was packed. It was the busiest I had seen it all week, I almost didn’t find a treadmill.

Once I found one, I started it up as well as all my gear. I admit I walked a minute of every mile. I ran 10 miles at race pace before walking in my last half marathon, but I can’t run one on the treadmill. What gives? Plus I still haven’t mastered drinking and running, ha! Ok, I’m not that bad but it’s a great excuse. 🙂 I hit 3 miles at just shy of 31 minutes and kept going. I actually sped up. I was tired and hot but feeling ok so I pushed on. 4.5 miles in 44:55 so I pushed stop on both the Garmin and Nike. I walked another quarter mile cool down.

Stat check: The treadmill read 4.5 miles in 44:55. Nike said 4.37 miles in 44:56 and the Garmin? Well, Garmin said 3.90 miles in 45:01. Hmmmm, what to believe. Other than the 60 seconds of walking each mile, I ran between 6.4 and 7.1, so I really want to believe the treadmill. I think the Garmin will only be used outside from now on. Once home, it was time for another smoothie. And hopefully some decent sleep very, very soon. Please? I rarely ever get in a run on Fridays, so I am looking forward to getting in my long run this weekend.

Oh, yesterday I received the medal from the only virtual race I did last year. I’m still not sure how I feel about those but I will admit that I did this one just for the medal. My inner nerd girl was jumping up and down-

How has everyone’s week been?

Any races this weekend?

Watery Eyes

Thursday was supposed to be a rest/ cross training day but since I knew the likelihood of me running today was pretty nil, I optimistically packed my running gear. It was a pretty good day at work. We were fully staffed, and even with the hectic-ness of month end, new month, year end and new year all at once, it was still good. I was looking forward to a good run after work. I wasn’t too eager to find out just how many people were working on their New Year’s resolutions but oh well. It wasn’t until 4:45 that things went screwy.

I lost my mojo (if I ever had any to begin with). I had absolutely no desire to go for a run or deal with the after work New Year crowd. Even my drive home sounded horrible. It wasn’t except for the random tears that started on the way. For no flippin’ reason!!!! Seriously nothing was wrong but I was crying.

Yup, that's about right — Yup, that’s about right

Today was my late day, so driving home last night in between sniffs, I thought about the logistics of a morning run. I even laid out clothes before sleeping last night. Then I went to sleep in the hopes that I would wake up in a better mood. When my alarm went off, I rolled over and pulled back the curtain, still dark. I hit snooze. Second alarm went off, more dark, another snooze. This continued for all 5 alarms. I then had to drag myself out of bed for work. The funk was still around.

I treated myself to a peppermint mocha along the commute hoping that it would help. Not so much, I almost cried twice at work before 11:00. What the hell. I really don’t understand it. By the time I got off work, all I wanted to do was eat a large pizza, but I didn’t. Mostly because I didn’t want to pay for it, so I can’t even call it a will power win.

Tomorrow's question — Tomorrow’s question

8 miles are on the calendar for tomorrow but I missed a 4 mile training run. So here’s to hoping for a good run of some sort tomorrow and a better mood. Or at least one that makes sense.

Anyone else ever randomly cry for no reason?

I see everyone is doing great with their goals so far!! Such a great thing to read!

Any races this weekend?

A New Year 10K

I love days off in the middle of week, even if they do confuse me a bit. This feels more like a Sunday than a Hump-day Wednesday. Which is not a horrible thing. It means I only have 2 days of work before the weekend, not 5, woo hoo! Can’t complain about that! And bonus, tomorrow there should be a crew of 5 at work, well hopefully. Fingers crossed!

Last night was an extremely chill New Years Eve. Like so chill that I forgot to watch the clock so the fireworks had to remind me of what time it was. After I jumped about a foot in the air, that is. Then it was off to bed for me. The plan was to sleep in but I woke up around 7:30 thinking I had a bladder infection (TMI?). Not pleasant. So I read some blogs while trying to doze of for the next 2 hours. Getting up I still felt a little touch and go but chose to ignore it. I headed out for lunch and some errands. I hit up Target to stare at some more food labels. It was funny how empty town was and it was after 12 by then. How late did some people sleep?

I was out the door by 2 for an easy run. I was aiming for around 5-6 miles. My first 3 miles were at a good pace even with my little walking warmup. A little past 2 miles I hit the top of incline and usually head back down a block over. This time I went right and continued up another little hill. As I rounded the downhill on the other side coming on 3 miles, I saw my mom and Zoey down the street. Or heard them, Zoey was not being a good walker today, haha. I met up with them at the bottom of another hill. They were headed up it, I really didn’t want another hill but I joined them. I won’t lie, I walked that hill and was huffing and puffing all the way up. This is one way Garmin is not great, I looked at my watch and saw that my pace was now 16+ minutes per mile, yikes!

Once at the top, I walked another .25 of a mile with them. I tried to jog with Zoey to the end of the block but it only lasted about 20 yards before she decided to pay tug of war with the leash. I think though that whenever she is finally trained she will be a fast running partner. She’s less than 4 months old and she treats 4-5 mile walks like it’s a run around the yard. I didn’t know an animal could have that much energy! Downside is she seems to think I am a giant chew toy. No matter what I say or do, she jumps all over me every time she sees me. I have puppy teeth marks up and down my arm and holes in some of my clothes. 😦 She’s lucky she’s cute.

Hill in the background, Zoey chewing her leash in front :) — Hill in the background, Zoey chewing her leash in front 🙂

I left them there and ran on. I added in one last uphill towards the end so I would hit 6 miles. I finished my run at 6.31 miles. Perhaps not as speedy as I would liked but pretty dang good for an easy run where I walked too. So first day of the year, and the first 6 miles towards my 750 goal done! Now if I can just keep it up. 🙂

I stretched out and then completed my first Nike Training workout. I always wanted to try this out but my previous iPhone didn’t have enough memory. When I upgraded to the 32gb in November I was finally able to download it. I tried my first one today and I was glad no one was around to see. I am seriously uncoordinated and just special when it comes to thing like that. Seriously, I forgot how to skip! Other than that, it felt like I did something and I liked that I could choose my own music.

I think my issue from this morning was a false alarm but I will keep an eye on it. It couldn’t be a hydration issue because I usually drink too much water on a daily basis. I though the doctor was crazy when he told me to drink less, but then another seconded that opinion. Well, damn. But I ok with nothing being wrong because I want to run this weekend!!!! Hmm, maybe tomorrow?

Hope everyone had an awesome New Years Day!