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Rambling On 49

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Happy Friday!

Ooof, this week was…ooof. I am all messed up.

Last week, I upgraded to the dual monitors at work. This week, a Varidesk was installed.
I also replaced my recliner with a chair and ottoman at home, started Transform 20, quit soda and haven’t run in a week.
In short, my body has no idea what is happening right now.

The weather has been crazy rain this week, so the timing for resting my foot might not have been so bad. At least that is what I tell myself.

A 3 day weekend is ahead and I am looking forward to finishing up the room redesign. I still have no idea where half my stuff is, though I do now have an overhead light back so yay! I also need to do some serious running. Although, let’s be real, it will be some slow running. Why are 90% of the trails closed? Grrrr.

What are you up to this weekend?

Week 1- Bumpy Start

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  • 2019 Race Schedule (so far):
  • 1-12 Castle To Coast
  • 2-4 Surf City 13.1 (Thanks BibRave)
  • 5-4 Wildflower (Thanks BibRave)

And just like that we say goodbye to 2018 and hello to 2019. I celebrated the New Year like I usually do, quietly, haha. Big partier over here. You all partied for me right?

Last week was chaos at work. For a short week, it was the longest week ever and I swear we had 3 Mondays. I still wasn’t great and a migraine came to visit on Wednesday. It’s still here. Then I compounded the issue by wearing a new pair of shoes on Friday. They are super cute and I have worn thembefore but they are tight and I ran around ragged on Friday and now my left foot hurts even 3 days later. Crap.

I am planning on changing up these recaps up but I haven’t quite fully worked out how yet. So let’s recap the active things I did do. It wasn’t much thanks to rain and my foot but it was still more running than I did the last 3 weeks of December- ha!

Tuesday- 4 New Years Miles
I ran outside! Yay! I forgot how much I missed it. Ever since I was sick, everything seems cold to me so I was bundled up like it was 20 degrees cooler than it was but it worked for me. I ran surprisingly well though and powered up a few hills and then promptly had a wheezing attack. Haha! I also lost my Buff partway and had to take my car back along the running route to find it.

Saturday- Treadmill 5K
Rain came to town and I ran and hid. High winds and flood advisories, oh my. I did a few miles on the treadmill at a nice, easy pace. I felt a twinge in my left foot, I immediately slowed down but the twinge didn’t really go away. Not cool.

Sunday saw more rain and wind and a not happy foot. Instead of my 6 miler, I sat and watched the rain. Boo.

7.1 miles for the first week of 2019. Less than I planned but 3 times more than last week so I’m calling it a win.

How did you greet 2019?
How was your week?

Week 51/52- Yeah No

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I struggle with December.

I lose all motivation to do much of anything active. I don’t know if it’s the holidays, if it’s the cold, the fact that I always seem to get sick in December. This December seemed to be more funk-a-delic than usual.

I have run twice in the last 2 weeks for a total of 5ish miles. I started 2 Beachbody workouts but didn’t finish either. One time was because the phone crashed but I didn’t bother restarting it either. 😛

I’ve been reminded that work is chaos around the holidays. So very busy. I learned that you can check into Urgent Care in the middle of night even though they don’t open until 8. I almost went to Urgent Care a few times, it was a rough week.

It wasn’t all bad though. I had a nice chill Christmas with the family. I might finally be starting to feel better- knock on wood. I upgraded my computer- maybe blog post will be more consistent. If I can figure out how to get the new one working that is. Just when you think you are tech savvy. Or when you realize how many passwords you don’t have memorized or logged anywhere. Oops.

All in all, I am kind of in denial that 2019 is almost here, wasn’t I just in San Diego? It should still be October. I have big plans for 2019, I just feel like I needed a little more cushion before it started. Double oops.

How was your week?
Do you struggle with December or is it just me?

Week 49

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  • Upcoming Races
  • Holiday Half 12/9 (Thanks Bibrave!)
Vacation- woo hoo!!! Why am I always sick on vacation?? Seriously, is it some kind of jinx? I didn’t get in as much exercise as I originally would have liked this week. I did get some nice downtime in and finally managed to get the toy shopping for work done. Oh and both parents had birthdays. 😯🎊

Monday– Does cleaning your car count as exercise? I mean it was ridiculously dirty and I did work up a sweat for the first time in weeks.  😛

Tuesday/Wednesday– The rain came to town and I hid.  Did I want to run in it? Yes.  But I was still coughing and didn’t think running in the rain would be a bright idea.

Thursday-3.3 miles I ran!  I headed to the gym to see if my legs still knew what they were doing.   They did!! I couldn’t get anything else to work properly though.  I forgot to start my Garmin, realized I never paired my headphones with my new iPhone and my footpod is out of calibration.    Whatever, it was still a good run.  

Friday– I wanted to run again but with the race this weekend I knew that would be more miles this week than I ran in the month of November.   Yeah, you read that right.  So I just spent the getting some errands done and packing for Pomona.

Saturday- Road Trip! Grrr, traffic. It felt like it took forever to get to Pomona. Once there, we checked out the race start location (not well enough) and then headed to the hotel to check in. An early dinner and then it was time to try to sleep. Ha! I think I woke up every hour on the hour. 😒

Sunday- Holiday Half Marathon– race recap to come.

16.55 miles for the week. Yes, more than I ran in November. Haha.

How was your week?


Ho-Ho Holiday

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Just like that, it’s race weekend.  

Wow, time flies when you’ve been sick.  😛   I have managed to get in a run but as you may know my training has been conspicuously absent these past 2 weeks.    Oops.

So, with that being said, what am I thinking?  I have run races on uglier month’s than these (looking at you Carlsbad).  I realize this will not be “raced”.  Likely, this will be barely run.  Run/walk intervals will be used and if that doesn’t work, walking it is.   I know part of the course takes runners on the Pomona raceway and I am looking forward to that.

And all the festive-ness!  I get the feeling that everyone is going to be wearing their holiday finest in running wear and I can’t wait to check it out.  I actually owned nothing festive so I took myself to Wal-Mart to remedy that situation.   I feel like I need more though, I didn’t get very much.  I still have time to look for more.   Hmmm.

This is my last race of the year and I just want to have fun.   And stay warm.  The 8AM start time will help but I am getting there early for packet pickup.  #allthelayers

What are you doing this weekend?