Motivation gets you started, habit keeps u going

Rest! I'm going to go shopping at Joann's and spend my giftcards on quilting stuff...I'm soo excited!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

I woke up at7 hoping to get in a long run. It was -4 at the time...a few hours later it went to -11. Now it is too late to go (I have to work at night)  and it is still below zero. I worked out on my elliptical for 35 minutes...or 8 miles ....hahahah...I wish I was that fast on the ground! and I did some yoga to stretch. I hope the weather gets better.

I think I"m going to have to run in the afternoons  starting on Monday due to the weather doesn't look like it is going to get any warmer. I like winter...but this is ridiculous!

any who..happy running...I hope the weather gives you better luck out there!

-8 at 9am...I guess i will go grocery shopping and see what the weather is like after that...It will probably be another elliptical day. I hope this weather gets warmer soon and doesn't continue into February. That is when my real training begins. At least now I know what to blame when I have a horrible marathon experiance--January! LOL

UPDATE:

30 minutes=8 miles on the elliptical. 10-15 % incline (I changed it 10 minutes in)

stretched afterwards and did 2 minutes and 50 seconds worth of crunches and side crunches on the ball.

3:50pm run 7 degrees with the windchill. The wind hurt when I was running to the west. I definitely could have put on some different or another layer on. I need to figure out the leg thing. I wear a pair of pants with fleece and shorts over them b/c my butt tends to get cold the quickest.

My IT band started to hurt...grrr...felt great for the last few days. Oh well. So I yelled at it and ran faster. I stretched a lot.

I think I will like running at night. I came home and right away changed into running clothes. When I got home I made dinner.

NRR-first day of student teaching. I love how organized my teacher is. Most of her lessons are written either by Saxon Math or some other program so it seems that all i have to do is put it in the format my university wants it in. I don't want to say it is going to be easy but it is definitely not reinventing the wheel. Oh and smartboards are soo cool!

4:30pm run. 11 with the wind chill.

I don't like this winter running. My knee hurt again. I hate this...It was bothersome during the day but it was mostly if I was sitting funny.

5pm run 7 with the windchill. I almost sat this one out. Just wasn't feeling it. But then I told myself that I would be done by 6 and to just do it. I was going to do the elliptical or a video. But tomorrow there will be a snow storm so I"m sure there will be plenty of time to do those things.

I ran on flat terrain today. Knee still hurts. Took a hot bath and stretched.

I'm goign to look into that tape stuff.

I decided I love/hate night runs. I like them b/c once i'm done I can shower and get in my pjs. This makes stretching easier and more likely to happen (in the a.m. runs I would get into jeans after a shower and stretching seldom happened) I also like it b/c dinner is afterwards. And the dogs are already walked in the morning so I don't have to worry about that either.

I do not like that there are sooo many cars on my usual routes. I'm trying to think of new routes that are less conjested. But besides running in neighborhoods (which I"m not a fan of) I don't know where to go. It is just so dangerous.

I got to teach two lessons today. And participate in a meeting and yell at kids. LOL...I got to intro the students to the wonderful world of cursive! muah!

Instead of running today I shoveled the drive way. If I would have left it the way it was we would have had the 2-4 inches that were on their plus whatever falls tonight. Plus all the snow at the end of the drive from the plow. I never would have gotten out tomorrow!

Now i'm eating cookies guilt free b/c I"m stressing. I don't know who to contact in order to sign my progress report for GRADUATION! (advisor is sort of fired and the replacements are passing the buck). And I"m suppose to turn in ALL my transcripts...which angers me b/c the websites are letting me access them and two b/c I have turned in my stupid transcripts when I started going there! Why can't I just turn in the new stuff???

Oh and it is all due on Jan 19th...grrr...no pressure!

This was the big suck

30 minutes on Elliptical 6 of those minutes were backwards. The first 22 minutes were at a 20 % incline

2 minutes of crunches, lunges, squats, bicep/tri stuff, and a whole lotta stretching. No knee pain during this.

My head is conjested, it is that time of the month, and I just don't wanna anymore. End tantrum. I feel better now LOL

it is 9:30 am and it is currently 15 below zero with the wind chill. neg 1 with out it. CRAZY!!!

36 minutes on the fantastical elliptical (I was going to do 45 but my foot feel asleep)

It is suppose to warm up by WEdnesday. I'm super happy about Saturday...I hope to get in a good 8-10 miles and it is suppose to be over 30...hopefully there is no windchill!

I did a 'Crunch' Bootcamp video-30 minutes. Kind of lame. Now I remember why it has dust on it.

I hate the warm up--very hard for uncoordinated April to follow. It is a good video for weights and doing jumping jacks. So we shall count this as my weights for the week. It is above 20 today but I still figure I would give my leg another day of rest. Tmorrow I will definitely be out there!

Today I had my first observation and I did so well! I'm so glad! My supervisor said she likes my demeanor and she said I"m a natural. Yes I was beaming. It was funny b/c after my cooperating teacher left the room she said, "Now you are working with a perfectionist. That is bad for you." I quickly interuppted and said how happy I am that she is the way she is. I love that she gives me feed back and that she is not passive at all about telling me when I'm doing something right or wrong. I'm a perfectionist so her perfectionism puts me at ease. LOL

5 pm run. 25 degrees with the windchill.

I'm feeling some back muscle tiredness from yesterday and I love it! Makes me feel like I actually did something.

I had a huge headache and still do after work/school today. So I came home and had a bagel and went to the computer store to get advice about the puter (won't get the part in until fridayish)

So then I finally ran even though my head hurt. Run was going good until I started getting pain. But on ravelry I remembered a few sayings that some of the girls had said in their heads so I said it. "Oh hell pain, can you call back later after my run is done? Thanks, I'm sorta busy." Or something like that. the IT band was not as bad as it has been. and it didn't hurt the entire time. I did get a shooting pain in my foot that made me skip and yelp but I kept on running. I am now rolling it out with my foot roller thingy.

Well school is super busy...I am finding I have less and less down time which I do not like. There is alwasy something to do. I'm really trying to orchestrate my schedule-homework, house cleaning, laundry, dinner, running, dogs, boyfriend (not in order of importance) and free time? time to just say blah...Haven't figured that out. This week I'm doing a load or two of laundry a day and hoping that helps. Then by the weekend all I have to do is clean the house.

Well that being said I must get to papers and lessons!

I'm gettting engagement photos tonight so I"m not sure I will be able to run. Hopefully I will get elliptical in or something.

In other news. today my teacher was in the hallway doing testing so we had a sub. I was in charge ALL DAY (still am) I did so much better than I thought I would. Lots more consequences b/c I was being harder on them so they know I mean business!

2:40pm run 34 degrees NO WIND CHILL!

I wore a sleeve ace wrap thingy around my knee today. I felt some twinging going on the last mile but not anything that made me stop and walk. It is definitely not comfy to wear. I am going to try again tomorrow with the KT Tape and hope that stays on! 

My teacher let me leave early today so I could go to the University and get my grad stuff turned in. Which left me enough time to go to the vet and pick up meds, go to the library to pikc up Marathoning for Mortals (I finally figured out interlibrary loan! so I have more running books available to me) When will I read it? Well we shall see!

I have tons of things to write up. I hope to get a long run in tomorrow and the rest of my homework! I"m crossing my fingers! LOL

9:20 am 24 degree. Average pace 10:20 There wasn't a wind chill when I started but I could feel it. When I got home I checked the weather and it is 29 with 21 degrees as the wind chill. I wore my committment skirt over my pants. This was great b/c I had those two big pockets for my water bottles. I hate the fuel belt around my belly so this worked out well. Plus I only drank about 6 oz and a sip of the other bottle.

I have a question about GU and marthon training. For 1/2 marathon training I don't even use them. But I have been bringing them along (I didn't eat one today) just to taste them and see which ones I like. At what point should I eat one during my marathon training? Right now I feel my mileage is too low to bother. Usually I will jsut take a gulp of one and save it for next week or something. Again that was just to try it to see if I like them.

I KT taped my leg up two hours before the run. I alcoholed my leg before applying . It is falling off right now...but I think I was having placement issues and parts of the tap split down the middle. Bla blah blah.

This was a weird run so I will just tell my splits and tell you what went on during them

1:10:43 afterthis mile I wanted to cut off my leg
2:11:44 I started walking after every mile
3:11:31
4:10:34 stretching and walking
5: 10:52 Hit the midway point and was feeling better about only having to go another 4.5
6:10:04--I thought duh...why am I not Chi Running
7:9:14 and then I started thinking of Haikus
8:9:42 thought man I should probably slow down
9: 9:28 thought if I make it home by 11 I can start back on homework again. So I sped back up.

My knee really hurts
Marathon training is hard
Chi Run realy works!

My knee still hurt during chi running. But it was different. Like it was  a better hurt. Not a worrisome one.

I was a little worried about this week. I only got 18 running miles in but i did do 2 sessions on the elliptical and weight video. So really I worked out 6 days this week. I think if I counted 3 miles per elliptical seesion then I would have 24  miles this week.

I'm going to go soak in the tub and read...Happy running! and I hope all did well on their races today! I thougth about you when I was out there!

A quick three with my brother. It is so nice to have some company. Especially when you are hurting!

Jillian Michaels kickboxing

Enjoying the day off!

30 minutes on the elliptical. I'll count it as 3 miles cross training

My brother made me some mix cds with some pumping music. I probably  could have stayed on for anotehr 10 minutes but I wanted to get some weights and lunges in before having to bog down with homework. I got a little nap in before ....today was mind draining at work and the 30 minute pick me up helped! a lot!

I did one set of the matrix and some arm stuff.

It is freezing rain so I stayed indoors.

Long day... didn't sleep well, didn't get home til about 7 (stupid student teaching meetings). I can't say I'm tired so I know I wil ahve trouble sleeping again. Guess I should try boring myself with somehomework or something!

I keep waking up at like 4:30 in the morning and then going to bed. Maybe next week I can start actually waking up and going for a run. I hope it stays warm.

5:10pm run35 degrees. This run was hard on me. 10:50 average pace. I swear one pain goes another one comes.

And I have a lot of work to do this week. and I want to put in an 8-10 miler. Was I insane to think that I could train for a MARATHON and student teach? yeesh. I think for now I will save the marathons for the summer time and keep my 1/2s for the spring...

7:20 am run 25 with the windchill

1:11:12
2: 11:35
3:11:35
410:54
5:11:13
6: 10:20 (feeling better)
7: 11:34 (back to ouchies)
8: 10:17
9: 13:43 (are we there yet?)
10: 12:38
.78: 11:32

For whatever reason this run was hard on me. My knees went back to hurting (yesterday they were fine). I feel like i haven't run this slow in a really long time. I'm going to go take  acold bath and  contemplate why I run.

And to be completely contradictory...I think my SO is going to run a 5k with me. Well we may actually end up walking it. He doesn't run and he is a smoker. We shall see. He has a part time job as the bowling alley mechanic and he texted me saying he ran the length of the bowling alley and was out of breath. So cute...hahaha

10 am run. 40 degrees with the wind chill 25 mph winds

Okay besides the wind this would have been a nice day to run. but i"m having some pain. I hate this! It feels just fine when I walk. It feels achy if I sit for too long (especially indian style)

Maybe it was the 10 miler yesterday? I was reading that ITband issues are from over training. I think I'm under training! I mean come on! So I'm not really sure where to go from there.

Once I"m done with homework I"m going to search the web..and check back here so if you have suggestions post them!

So far I am taking hot baths...stretching. wearing the knee ace wrap thing, cross training on the elliptical. And actually after a few days of doing that I have an okay run day. but then any days after that stink. So maybe I should be alternating ellip and running days?

Ellip miles= 30 minutes, matrix, with arm stuff in between each lunge rep

WARNING--I MAYBE A BIT SARCASTIC AND WHINEY-I came to the realization today that I need to do what I  need to do in order to be happy. Otherwise I go completely insane and get pretty annoyed/angry for no real reason.

Today I decided I was going to stay at school finish up the lesson plan and then go home. Work out, feed the dogs, make dinner, take a shower. The yesterday me, would have rushed home to be with a guy that isn't that interested in her that close to coming home (needs alone time), says he will feed the dogs...then doesn't...then said dogs get all kooky b/c they are hungry and of course they bug me for food. My lesson still does not get written, and I have rushed my work out b/c dinner has to be on the table by a time that was totally made up in my head. Then I go to bed angry. The dogs dn't get taken out at prescribed time and so therefore one has to go to the bathroom at 5 in the morning (one hour before I need to be awake), she paces until I do get up to let her out b/c boyfriend doesn't wake up for anything.

So...first scenario is in affect tonight. I hope to get more sleep. B/c the way the SO doesn't it just doesn't work for me. I think the one dog is getting old and just can't hold it...so I need to take her out right before bed. SO feels that he should take her out when ever it is conveniant for him and b/c I was PO'd last night I went to be early...but never actually got the benefit of the extra sleep!

All that being said...I get a letter in the mail from some lawyer saying they want their money. Apparently they are trying to collect taxes from when I lived in Virginia. Only I dind't live in VA the year they are trying to collect  on.  VA charges you taxes on your vehicle just b/c you have it in their state. So I'm trying to get paperwork or something to prove. Plus they added 5 % tax onto that. Gotta love the government!

And I realized I"m eating WAAAAAY too much food. I dn't have a scale...but I feel FAT!

Work out went well. Leg felt great today. Today is a regular cross training day...plus it got super cold out and it was snowing so I stayed in doors. Whew..

Another night of not being able to sleep...my head hurts now...so I laid down and played with the dogs when I got hometoday...I started to feel better...but now I'm back to working on a lesson plan and I feel like my head is going to explode. My teacher put it well, "Teachers think ALL day long" so maybe i"m just exercising my brain a lot...maybe too much.

At any rate I'm going to go back to morning runs. i think it will help.

5:10am run -2 with the windchill 13 mph winds

I feel great. Yes my IT band is a little bothersome...but not bad. I did some walking. Also did some research to see where I might have gone wrong.

Running on the slanted roads. I have been running this same route at night. Well I"m forced to basically have one foot in the dirt and one on the road. I maybe guiltly of going too fast. My easy pace is 11...I think I have been going 10 (before I was hurt). Today I ran in the middle of the road when there were no cars. Which is pretty easy to do when it is 5 am. I also was pretty consistant 10:45 pace. Also, I have been wearing my knee brace.

Now if I don't get a headache today that just tells me that waking up at 5 is the thing I need to do. And I woke up pretty naturally. WEll I woke up at midnite thinking OMG it is only midnite?? LOL

Happy running all.

5:10am -3 degrees with the windchill

Crunch Crunch Crunch--that is the sound of snow crunching under my feet. This run was a little cold...especially with the wind...and it was a sloooow run...which may explain why I was cold. I probably could have walked faster. and my IT Band hurt a little bit. :(

No running today...I decided maybe keeping to 4 days of running a week may help my knee heal? I dunno...seems that running 3 days in a row makes me start over though...

I ate a bowl of ice cream and some raspberry coffee cake thingy..YUM!

Now I'm going to lay on the couch and try to get rid of my sneezing. While  grocery shopping I just could not stop sneezing! now I'm all stuffed up. I took a benadryl and will probably be falling asleep soon!

Glad this one is in the bank...VERY slow digression run.