So Rough!

Ok,I've had three runs since I posted last. On Tuesday I ran and it was rough. I realized half way through my run that I forgot to eat lunch that day so tht was probably part of it. I was running 2 walking 1. As I remember I threw in several run 3's.

Then On Friday we were down at KY lake for a family reunion. I got up early to run around the resort. It was delightful I love having something to look at besides subdivision houses. I was up to run 3 walk 1. The roughest part was a significant hill I had to climb near the end of my run,that was a challenge.

Then yesterday evening I went out for a run at about 8pm it was awful. My worst run by far I remember ever. I was supposed to do run 4 walk 1. I started running and just felt so off my gait was terrible my knee hurt my shins hurt and I was just tired. I ran two sets then I just had to walk for 5 minutes I felt awful. I thought when I got to the down hill slope I might feel better but no not at all. So of the 6 running sets I was suppose to do I only did 4. Those 4 were so slow I felt like I was just ambling along hardly faster than a walking pace. I think part of the trouble was how horrendously I ate over the weekend. I was surrounded by good food and I was partaking liberally. I think I might even have put on a few pounds, Zoiks! So I am very discouraged and not looking forward to my next run. Yet I know I need to get back out there or it will be easy just to keep putting it off. Jake's out of town for the next three days so I'm deciding if I should try to get my parents to watch the boys or just give my knees a few days to recover. I'm leaning towards the latter although that will throw all my scheduled runs off and make it easier to keep putting off, Sigh.

I haven't done any weight training or other aerobics this week. The plan is to do some today. It is so hard to do things during the day. Running is easier because it is my time to get away out of the house away from the boys. But doing anything else requires doing it either while the boys are awake (yeah right) or during nap when I need to do many other things. I just need to be more disciplined.

Getting Out the Door

I did not feel like running today. It was about 7:00 I was nursing the the baby for the third time in as many hours. Dinner was only half way done. My dryer was beeping demanding to be unloaded while I looked around at baskets of clean clothes yet to be put away. All in all I had so much to do and I was just tired. I wanted to just take a nap yet I knew running would make me feel many times better than a nap. So I finished feeding the baby, ignored the laundry got dinner ready to go in the oven waited for Jake to get done mowing the lawn and headed out.

Like always getting out the door is the hardest part. Once I started running I was so glad to be out there. I was running 1 minute walking 1 minute. At the one mile point there is a nice long gentle hill to run down so instead of the obligatory minute I ran 3 and from there on out I ran 2 minutes walked 1. I felt great although my knee was a little off. So 2.5 miles in 31:43. I decided to forgo any lower body strength training due to the late hour and my knee feeling off.

Busy week ahead. Tomorrow we're going out for our anniversary. Tuesday night is game night. Wednesday family dinner. Thurs leaving town for a family reunion. Yikes when am I going to run. My plan is a run on Tuesday before game night, Friday while at the reunion and Sunday before leaving or after getting home. It will be a challenge to make it happen this week.

Tomorrow I plan to do upper and lower body strength training and core conditioning. I think I'll throw in the Firm video tape and give that a whirr.