Hot dog

Well, what can I do? It's 97 degrees and a heat index of 122. 

I'll be back, as soon as its a bit cooler, and not so swamp assy out there. 

Technical Error

Yesterday was my first run in almost 2 years, in fact it was 1 year 355 days since my last work out. 

It was humid and warm, like a normal mid-Atlantic summer day. I tried using all my technology to track my run. Five minutes in I realized my voice prompts weren't working in my app, I felt a vibration and started running...then realized I was on week 4, definitely not ready for that. I modified my week and finished. 

Nike+ thought I was going much faster and much farther than reality. It said I went 4.17 miles and averaged 11:19 per mile. Simply not true, I ran 3.37 miles and well I was MUCH slower. Don't make me calculate it, I don't want to, it will make me sad. Maybe too many gadgets trying to access my GPS chip?? 

Today I am a little sore but nothing too painful. In fact, I was just climbing around on a boat with relative ease just a little bit of heavy legs. I think I want to skip right to week 2. I am going back and forth with this decision but I felt really good out there yesterday and think the 30 more second of running per cycle wouldn't kill me. 

Looking forward to Wednesday.

2 year hiatus

Back to the drawing board. Tonight was day one of C25K... it went well. I survived and can tell tomorrow I will be sore, I am sore already and I only got back a few hours ago. I am sure I have more humorous witty things to write but currently I am too tired to formulate a sentence. Till Wednesday!

Screw you 100 degrees

It's freaking hot out there. I don't ever remember Florida feeling this humid and hot, that's saying a lot. I hope to be fully over my cold by Monday so I can start working out again, I miss it.

Not Just a Cold

Last Tuesday night (July 13) I was standing in the living room contemplating if I really needed to put on pants and head to the store. Don’t get me wrong, I know I need pants to go to the store my contemplation was, did I want to make the effort to put on pants and go to the store. N~ came to visit for Fourth of July and most kindly gave both of us the plague (ok maybe it was really just a cold). But I was feeling lazy and didn’t really want to leave the house but the curiosity was killing me. I hadn’t been feeling myself for a few days. I was cranky, tired and couldn’t get out of my own way. But it didn’t feel like just a cold, nor did it feel like the same ol’ PMS that I was used to.

On Monday, K~ made our morning latte’s and because I was running a little behind he put mine right into a to-go cup. As pulled out of the neighborhood, picked up my cup opened the lid and took the first sip of heaven, only heaven tasted burnt and acidic it made my mouth water and my stomach turn. My plague was a little stranger then I previously thought.

This “odd” feeling mixed with the fact that when I finally went through my emails on Tuesday I found a “period reminder“ from my iPhone (yes I realize that is lame, but I am a busy girl and I have lots going on, I don’t want to have to remember my period). My email simply stated, “ Your period is expected July 10, 2011”. Usually I get that reminder and I am like, duh…I know that, a girl knows her body. But this time it was 2 days late, I am NEVER two days late, one day early, two days early… but never LATE!!!

So I put on my pants (I know the signs only say “no shoes, no shirts, no service ”…but I still think without pants they would have made me leave) and told Keith I was running an errand. He wanted to know where I was going, but I wasn’t saying. He said “Ohhh, usually that’s a good sign, you’ll come back with something good” (that really made me giggle). I replied with “I am going to buy a pregnancy test…” jaw dropping ensued, followed by a few reallys and a nice. Good Response ☺

After peeing on the stick (well 2 actually, if I had a third on I would have made Keith pee on one as a scientific control) the results are in, I am pregnant. We are still absorbing the shock of it, but we knew we wouldn’t be able to keep the secret long so we told the parents, sisters, brothers and a few close friends last weekend

So from all my reading, running is fine as long as it's comfortable, but right now I am still hacking up a lung so all cardio is on hold. But I think I am out of half training because I don't know if I am supposed to add milage during pregnancy and I am only up to 5 miles. My new plan once I am healthy is to swim 3 days a week at lunch and run 2-3 days, 2 on a treadmill at lunch so I can jump off if I feel bad and maybe one weekend day outside.

I haven't posted anything on Facebook (so you all are in my confidence) and please if you are friends with me there as well, no posts till I post first.

Cross training and lunch workouts

I still have a cold, but I am not coughing as much as I have been, so I worked out. I went to the pool at work.. And it made me feel so out of shape, and I have been running for a few months now.

I am having trouble getting myself to work out in the evenings so yesterday I decided to start working out during lunch at the pool or gym. This is going to make me embrace a piece of training equipment that I have been avoiding like the plague...the DREADMILL... Today was in the 90s and tomorrow may reach 100, that isn't good for running. Tonight I am going to set up my iPod with a bunch of killer music because I get so bored on the wheel that I want to quit after 5 minutes even if I am NOT tired. I don't have that same problem outside when I run without music... Meh, here's to the new leaf for loving A/C. Then in the fall when it is cooler during lunch I can run outside during lunch... I can't wait for the fall...

As for cross training I am going through a 0-1650 swim trainer. The point of the this program to condition me to be able to swim a nautical mile in six weeks. I have always loved being in the water and I used to swim EVERYDAY at lunch when I was younger and in much better shape. I miss those days.

Here's to new schedules!!!

Scare tactics

I am a little scared that the pamphlet for my half marathon in December says "...save some for Hospital Hill at mile 11.." or the stories of sleet on past race days I heard while running yesterday.

I don't know if I am ready for anything with hospital in the name, and SLEET... what did I get myself into??

Any who just venting, aren't you glad I talked you all into this???

Three miles tomorrow.

Not sore from yesterday, slightly tight calves but that is the worst of it. VFF's pass the five mile marker.