Motivation gets you started, habit keeps u going

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.