Motivation gets you started, habit keeps u going

JM 30 Day Shred level 1 This whole not running thing is weird!

• atleast it wasn't 90 degrees and
  cuz that would have been waaay worse!

Okay so I was already worried when I slept like a rock and didn't want to wake up. But I had to remind myself I have been running in the afternoons and I'm on spring break so 5:30 am hasn't been in my vocabulary.

Very cold and very windy. Reports of 35 mph winds. It was in the 40's so I shouldn't say it was very cold but the wind made it worse. I should say that where I was running is all country so there is no hiding from it.

Also if you can believe it is rolling hills. I think there were more ups than downs. I knew all this before going in.

It was the inaugural race but it was my 6th 1/2. Some commentary--more porta potties. Took me twenty minutes to wait in line. More water stations and at better intervals. Again it is all country roads so I'm sure they were working with what they could but more frequent water stops would have been nice. (I am glad I brought my one with me). There were no mile markers. NONE. What is up with that? Oh and I didn't hit start on Garmin right away so I was all messed up. Love the medal. It is shape of Indiana and the goodie bag was pretty sweet. Oh not a good idea to put the finish line at the exit where all the cars are trying to get out. This ended up not being that big of a deal but still a bad idea.

Okay on to me and how I did. I didn't PR. The clock said 2:14 when I passed it but I have no clue how accurate that is since I started my garmin late.

I don't think I"m injured. I don't think I have IT band pain. I just had such sore lower back/upper butt pain/soreness at the later part of the race. I'm not upset about not pring. It was a tough race with the wind and the hills.

I was so thankful for a friend. At mile 3.5 or so she took my gloves and hat. So nice to not have to carry those anymore!!! And I had another friend at the end with her daughter. They brought me candy. She is running her first half at Indy. I have got to think of something nice to get her for her first one.

# 6 is in the bag. Yeah!

Had some after work wine and snacks at a friends house. Not a good idea before running (cramp) otherwise nice run. 55 degrees. I wore a skort and a long sleeve shirt.

Shred level 2

Two hour fog delay. I will still go in a little earlier so I can use the laminator...(insert arnold voice)

So afterwork was suppose to go like this. Take dog to vet, start dinner, go for a run. It went more like this. Husky runs away and slip out of her collar as I'm leading her to the car. Other dog distracts me so that I do not notice that she is trying to get out of the collar. I take off my heals and put on my running shoes (still in work clothes) and get into car to look for her.

Bystander with dog says, "she is over there!" to which husky sees me and runs in other direction. I continue to run for one mile. Finally more men stop in their car and call her over. she goes over there and they stop her. She does not listen to women. They let me borrow a rope b/c I forgot her leash in the car. They continue to follow me all the while saying they are not creepy stalkers. While I assure them that my intention was not to take their rope.

Nice stalker men wait for me at my car one mile later. Husband calls I give round about location. He drives by to give stalker men a look of deathand to resuce me in case I should be kidnapped and murdered (later I found out he was worried about his dog and not me...sigh) got dog back in car. Drive home to get her water and me a change of clothes (yeah 60's!) b/c I was dripping wet.

Took dog to vet. Now 100 dollars poorer. Although now while I"m cooking dinner I have to go to walmart to pick up dog prescription. Can you believe that one you can get dog prescriptions at walmart (if they can be injested by people) and two at the vet they wanted 47 bucks and at walmart they want 8. Yeah! two pills twice a day. The vet tells me oh you can just wrap it in cheese. Yeah she eats around the cheese. She is 11 years old and has learned  a trick or two.

soon I will be able to eat and shower...So how is your Monday?

Jillian michaels Yoga Meltdown and .8 dog walk

pm run 51 degrees, windy, work my skort. What is going on? When I first started to run my pace was either all over the place or progressive. Now it is all over the place or degressive..Argh!

Kickboxing. For some reason I find running when it is nice outside daunting.

5:30 am run. I wanted to be out earlier but I was putzing around the house. 

 10:30 AP which I am please with. I think 40 degrees suits me well. 

walked the doggies .8

5:15 am 11 min pace feels like 36 but warmed up

45 min on ellip..

1.25 dog walk

10

weird day after work. barely got three in. Garmin was dead. Congrats to all Boston runners! Great job Rat--loved getting the splits!

am run. thank you birds for making sure I got out there this morning! that and I texted my friend last night that I would get there no matter what this morning. It was nice to come back to her text that said, "no you won't it is so windy out there" It felt good to text her back "4.75 Suck it!" LOL

10 pushups

I ran at 5:15 am, did the weights portion of 30 day Shred level 2, and walked the dogs .8 miles

45 on the ellip. Ridiculous amounts of rain and I bumped  my head on a rafter. Happy good friday people!

tossed and turned all night. A rainy mist on me as I ran. The weekend was so fun it was hard to see it go :(

I did intervals today. 20 seconds fast with 2:30 recovery. I had a .65 warm up and ended up being a 2 mile cool down.

61 squats

26 regular pushups

60 second plank

I am doing a test to see where I am physically for strength training. I need to figure out what this one thingy is and where I can do a pull up.

I maxed out on squats and pushups.

5 miles

20 push ups

45 sec plank 30 second L/R plank

50 squats

stretching

Three miles! The wedding was beautiful. So I only caught them walking down the aisle after the wedding. But I taped it so I will probably be watching it later!