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Elliptical with Assault on Precinct 13

I did 30 seconds of sitting on the imaginary chair against the wall( probably could have done longer)

100 crunches on the ball

bench press on the ball (with 12 lb dumbells in each hand)

chest flies on the ball

5a.m. 33 degrees 25 with the windchill

Another great run. I had a few twinges but other than that I felt great.

Rolled my leg/calves and foot...

Yesterday I got a lot done or found out about the wedding. I was suppose to be doing homework. But wedding plans kept coming to my head. I knew I would get almost obsessive about this and that is why I kept telling people I wasn't planning it yet. But Now that I have a date (oct 2) I'm all feeling like I have to book stuff.

So I have the venue, the food, rental stuff. My fiancee is in charge of the DJ and we are still working on the photographer (family friend may do it but can't get a hold of him to see if he is free that day). I still need a cake, a dress, centerpieces, wedding band for the new hubby, favors. But most of that can wait till this summer. AFTER I graduate. LOL

My head is full of snot. I love that eh weather is getting warmer but my head does not like it very much. stupid sinuses

I slept in until about 6:30. Let the dogs out, ate, did homework, some laundry. Took a 1/2 hour nap AND then started running at 9. 11:27 average pace. My calves now feel like big ol knots.

The first few miles flew by...garmin was beeping and I was woo hoo. I think it helps that at the beginning of my run it was 30 degrees and by the end it was aobut 45. I had too many clothes on. So by mile 1 I was taking off hat and gloves and stuffing them into the buff. Which btw acts as a great place to put all those items. I took a thing of water and one with powerade and one gu.

I used the gu around mile 10.5. I"m not really sure what the gu is suppose to do but I was dead by about 13...my legs felt like knots. Not painful...just tired and knotty. so i'm grateful it wasn't OMG my legs are goign to fall off pain. Very little ITB bothersomeness. I stretched it out at about mile 7 and felt fine as far as the ITB goes. I"m glad spring seems to finally be here andthat the sun is out. It makes training sooo much easier.

and now for a nap...

and p.s. this is my longest run EVER!

up at 6:30 a.m. Did some homework...well lots of homework. I finished my thematic unit. I think that was the last big project of the semester. I have a few smaller ones left. Just glad that was is off my back.

Didn't run till about 11am. I took the yellow dog. 48 degrees. I almost wore just my skirt but decided at the last minute to put on pants underneath. I"m glad I did. There was a slight wind that just stunk. The run kinda hurt, in a sore way. I was suppose to do 7 but when it started to rain a cold rain (and me without a jacket) i said screw it and just went home. I ran a little fast my average pace was 10:30. I should be at around 11.

Plan for the rest of the day is to encourage fiancee through more of the kitchen project (he has three more weeks to fnish it before we have family over for palm sunday). And I will knit and read this new book my mom let me borrow months ago called the Demon by Tosca Lee. I"m only in the first chapter but it is pretty good so far!

Upper body weights work out...and abs a-roma

5:00am elliptical

I found one of my books on exercising. I'm going to start following its one month plan for the abs  and follow some of the upper body strength exercises.

I have to have some sort of plan otherwise I just end up doing hammer curls and pushups. so this breaks it up. I like it b/c it has stuff for the ball, the gym (i have a semi at home gym) and just free weights. It is one of the self magazine books. I ignore all the talk part b/c it has stupid girly myths that I can't believe some girls still believe (ie if I work on my arms I'll look like a line backer)

Happy running

5a.m. It rained on and off..and I had to do a few costume changes. coat on, coat off, buff on my ears buff off....kind of annoying. and now I'm running behind in my morning...sort of. My teacher is getting on my nerves and there hasn't been much for me to do in the morning so I think being a little later than normal won't be too big of an issue. Plus today is pajama day! Yippee!

5:20 I slept in a bit. Just did not want to wake up to the elliptical today. I did weights for my vain arms and abs first b/c I didn't want an excuse to skip it. So instead I skipped the last mile on the ellip.

So the next two weekends I"m having a tough time trying to figure out when I"m going to fit in my long run. This weekend that goodness is my light week so it is only a 10 miler. I may do it tomorrow night OR at 5 am on Saturday (usually I wait a bit). The SO is on midnights Fri and Satur and then I have a friend coming over on Saturday.

Next weekend we are giong to Evansville for a bowling tournament. The SO seems uneasy about me running down there. Soooo I may have to do my long run 16 miles when i get home sunday....YUCK!...I"m hoping that the hotel has a treadmill...maybe I can get in my usual sunday shorter run in on saturday...or maybe i could do it friday...who knew this would be sooo difficult!

day of rest

I am still so amazed at how warm it is. It is 6am and is already 40 degrees.

4 am run. I was determined to get done by 7...so I had to wake up a little earlier. I made it by about 10 minutes before 7

My garmin died sometime after mile 11.75...and I say that b/c I did one loop of 8.5 miles went home, switched the laundry, got more water, and got the yellow dog and went back out to do and out and back of 3.75. it died sometime after that 3.75. Garmin must not have been connected well to the charger b/c i did get it from the charger.

Any who...I will try to remember to update with atleast my average pace. For now I have to make sure the house is some what clean. My friend and her baby are coming over. SO is cleaning up the kitchen (rennovation is still going on but he he cleaning up tools he doesn't need for the rest of the job)

Oh I ran 16 this weekend so that next weekend I will run a 10 mile long run. So I switched my long runs. I won't be too broke up if I end up skipping the 10 miler all together but i'm pretty sure I can get it in before work on Friday.

I realized on this run that with in 1.5 miles of my house there are cows! My dog didn't know what to think. It was pretty funny!

7:30pm elliptical...the stupid thing keeps rocking like it is unstable. WE thought we had it fixed but it appears the problem is back...grrr...

5am--i loathe daylight savings time...now it is back to being dark again for my entire morning routine...grrr

5am run 36 degrees.

I thought it was safe to go with a short sleeve under my jacket. It was chilly for the first few minutes.

So I think the eillip is dead. It keeps rocking and now I see comments about it that it does wobble after a while. It is a scary wobble. Not sure how to fix it. I contacted customer service and they wanted to know what surface i had it on. I"m like freaking pillows...okay really it is concrete..but seriously what kind of question  is that? just goes to show that there are people that would put it on pillows and then complain about it wobbling.

So I'm not sure what to do with it now. And I have to say I'm pissed about the waist of money!

4:45 a.m. 30 degrees

Okay I think 8 is my max for the morning. I'm going to have to start splitting my runs during the week. Will that still be okay for my training?

Thinking about doing the Run to Wrigley 5k in April.

Weights and walking dogs

4:45 am run. 43 degrees 10:27 pace. Last mile was a 9:23

I'm pleased with this run. Last night I was not looking forward to it and ate a lot of junk I had a bad day with the kids yesterday. Today I'm by myself (they couldn't find a sub--totally illegal but they said they are going to check on me)

Well I need to go so I can get cleaned up and off to work!

day off in evansville...I could have ran down here. we were in a nicer area. I"m glad I didn't...sociallizing seemed more important this weekend than anything!

Had an early start to get to the bowling alley so SO could bowl 6 games. Then we hoped in the car and got home by 7. It is waaay chilly up here than it was down there. I was glad to be able to swim last night.

Looks like I"m gonna have to cram all my runs in between Monday and Thursday again. Blah! i have to do 8, 4, 8, 4, and 17 on Saturday!

4:50 am--this was suppose to be an 8 miler. I"m going to assume after not running for two days, drinking, icecream and all the othe crap I ate this weekend (we were really good with meals though--had a lot of subway) and now I have a sinus conjestion...that this is why I felt like poop. Well my legs felt like poop...my shins. I did try to run this route that I use to run with the group when I was trying that out. and during the entire time my shins hurt when I ran with them. I think it is all mental so I try to stay away but I wanted to try it. At any rate. I may try for 4 more tonight or just coutn this as my 4 miler for the week. No biggie.

I am so lame ...still feel like sick. I slept till 6. let the dogs out..then slept till 6:25...got up went to work..now I"m about to go back to bed. wake up get hair cut andthen back to bed.

Lucky for me I made sub plans for tomorrow b/c I have a training to go to that does not start until 9 and we can wear jeans. hooray!

I'm skipping todays run as well. my head just feels sooo blah...and my throat. There are times while I'm teaching where I feel faint. I would hate to actually faint during a run. Am I being ababy?

Any who I was suppose to be up to 40 miles this week. First time ever! Looks lik it isn't going ot happen. I hope I wil be able to get in 8 tomorrow and 4 friday and 17 on Saturday. That way I will only be skipping one run.

5 a.m. 18 with the windchill. I'm not sure what is going on with Garmin. I know from proven fact of running this one route that at this one point I should have been at about 2.3 miles. This morning I was at 1.8. And I remember thinking at .56 "What that is it?" So I mapmyrun.com my run this morning and sure enough garmin was off by 1/2 a mile. I wanted to do 8 today but felt frustrated b/c I thought I was just running really slow and didn't think I would make it home on time. In fact I just looked at my laps and garmin said my first mile was 18 minutes! No way!!!! I didn't even walk!

at any rate Yeah I ran today!

I forgot to mention the quad exercise-only 30 seconds and my wimpy pushups...I may do some lifting this afternoon. I wanted to go for a bike ride but it still soo chilly!

7am 35 degrees. 25 with windchill

Strong run...MANY hills...must go to quilt store for huge sale so I may buy fabric for my signature quilt for my wedding! MUAHAHA

7 am 40 degrees 25 with the windchill. This run hurt. My IT band has felt fine...not today. though...I have been bad at stretching and rolling as of late too...

arm stuff for weights and planks

7:20 a.m. Screw this run. I ran it with my brother. I can hardly move my knee ithurts so bad. I hate my IT Band and I hate marathon training. We were suppose to run 17 miles....

In better news Easter Dinner last night went well. Our house was so clean and the guests were happy with the food. very good time!

day off...took the dogs for a .80 mile walk. Leg feels like yuck. but I haven' tbeen nice to it.

10:30 am bike ride. I went 6.59 miles but i'm only counting it as 4 b/c that is what I need for mileage. Plus it took me 45 minutes to complete...LOTS OF WIND and up hills. And I needed to fillt he air in my tires. It was soo much easier to peddle when that was done!

126 bpm, 8.7 mph, and I think I worked off about 3 reeces cups that I ate this morning. I have to check the calories on the package again.

I weighed myself at a friends last night. I'm up to 153 lbs and 23 percent body fat. I really need to stop eating junk. But it is weird I really like being at his weight. I just hate that I bought skinny clothes and can't wear some of them! LOL atleast when you get skinny you can still wear the big girl clothes! hahahha

Oh and my spirits are feeling better. IT B is still a little wonky which is why I chose to bike 4 instead of running it.

UPDATE: part one of 30 day shred...me likey!