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.