me+run+beach=LOVE

Today is the day I've been waiting for since last weekend! My friend & I planned a beach day last weekend. All week I've been anticipating this weekend. I've been working a ton, and I really needed some sun. I also didn't get to run but one day last week so we decided we would leave for the beach super early and we would run once we got over there. BEST IDEA EVER! It was soooo beautiful today; just gorgeous! 

http://connect.garmin.com/activity/28868705 

^^^ that link goes to my garminconnect.com account and will show my run. pretty neato.

We did most of our run on the paved trail, then on our way back we decided to run on the beach the rest of the way back...wrong!  The beach "ends" they have it blocked off and we couldn't get all the way back. So we had to turn around and go back almost all the way back to where we got on the beach... Then we just walked and talked and enjoyed the weather the rest of the way back; which was probably another 2-3miles.  So we ran 6 miles, then walked another 2-3. Not sure exactly how many it was, I stopped my Garmin when we quit running.

The beach was amazing! I can not even explain how awesome the weather was. It never got to scorching hot you can't stand it; it was perfect. I got my first sunburn of the year, and that is exciting!   ha ha

That may or may not be an alcoholic beverage in my cup thing... there is a big sign that says "No alcoholic beverages".... they have no proof! ha ha! =)  i'm super pale. please don't laugh. 

 

It was pretty crowded. Stupid us. We sat right next to a huge man made hole..they freakin' hole attracted every kid with in 1000 yards. They were in there with shovels, throwing sand, bossing each other around; oh it was interesting. We learned a lesson. If you see a hole dug in the sand.... don't sit next to it! =)  I am a serious people watcher; does this make me a bad person? 

ahhh, the beach makes me smile, even if it is a really ridiculous looking smile =)))

I never want to go home.. we considered getting a hotel... but I had to come home to take care of my puppies.

We are planning another beach trip soon! Woohoo!





I l-o-v-e the beach. I think I can take on and conquer next week!



I'm very excited for next week's running. I actually get to run 4 days, and THAT is exciting! Yes!
Mon,Wed,Fri & Sun will be my days to run next week!

I really want to up my mileage for April, but with this work schedule who knows. March was not a good mileage month for me, pretty disappointing really. 61 miles, which was just 1 mile over the "challenge" I joined on the Dailymile.com - I really hope April brings me more miles! I set a goal at the beginning of 2010 to run 1000miles this year. It's not looking good. We are already 4 months into the year and i've only run 202 miles. That means I have to run 100 miles a month from here on out. Boy oh Boy, I better get to running!  I am going to set a realistic goal of 80 miles this month. We'll see. =)

G'nite.

confession:body issues.

this is kinda personal . i have serious body issues. There. That is me being pretty open & honest.
Yes. I'm 5'6, and I fluctuate between 128-132lbs. I know this is a healthy weight for my type. I've googled it. This doesn't make me feel better what so ever! I just feel like its distributed all wrong. I have absolutely no shape to my body, straight up and down; it makes me miserable. I wear scrubs to work, and i'm not even comfortable in scrubs. I am not satisfied at all with the way I look. I am trying to eat better, and trying to work out & run; I don't have the time to work out like I want to. I think this is contributing to my unhappiness. When i was about to work out more, and i was running pretty much every day to every other day I was feeling much better. I felt like I was doing something about my body. 

I'm mostly just whining. but seriously my job is taking over my life. I know there are plenty of people that work WAY more hours then I do, and have kids, and much more complicated lives, but I haven't quite figured out how to adapt and manage my time. 

get up at 5am-
let the dogs out
eat breakfast
make coffee
wake Chris up
put lunches together
wake Chris up again
get dressed/makeup/hair
change
change clothes again.. i wear scrubs, how hard can it be to find something comfy.


630a-6:45: leave for work sometime in there
7:15-7:30 get to work.
8:30a - office opens.

5pm-7pm :: get off work, depends on the day.
10pm-11pm go to bed sometime.     (i am not the type of person who can stay up until all hours of the night and still function the next day; no siree can't do it.)

Week 1 - work 6 days; close 3 nights, get off at 5 the other 3 nights
Week 2 - work 5 days; close 3 nights, get off at 5 the other 2 nights.

on nights I work till 7 I usually try to have a crock pot dinner or have something easy that Chris will want to make. 
nights I work till 5 I run.. 

sometime after I get off work I'm supposed to fit in school work; which hasn't been going so well. I'm so far behind it's ridiculous. 


I'm sorry this has turned into a really huge whiney blog. I'm so overwhelmed; I have never in my life had so much on my plate. 


oh, don't forget we are building a house.  

Again, I'm sorry this has turned out to be so whiney. I have been venting to Chris for weeks, hell months. 

*****


On a happy note I am going to the beach in the morning, and I am SO excited about that. In fact its 12am right now, and I have to be up in 4 hrs.

We are driving down to Ft. Desoto to run and then lay out =) Woo Hoo! 

G'Nite.

Day 1; BL Cardio Max

... pretty sure my legs are going to be sore tomorrow. That freakin' Bob is lunge-happy. He goes crazy on the lunges! Goodness! But I completed the 5 minute warm up & the 20 minute work out. Then dinner was ready; so I did a few stretches then ate some din din,ha. Dinner consisted of 1 left over rib, 1 chicken sausage, a spoon full of potato salad, and spoon full of baked beans.. & dessert is coffee! Yum.

I am really trying to get back into a habit of eating better.

Breakfast: Wholegrain cheerios w/ 1% milk
Snack: a few tricuites
Lunch: left over spaghetti w/ whole grain noodles
Snack: Banana
Snack: more triscuits

The triscuits probably aren't the best, but they sure are good =)

I am feeling good that i was actually able to get a work out in today! Phew!

Im so excited for Saturday. beach day! WOOHOO!!!

Wanted: Treadmill.

I've been throwing around the idea of getting a treadmill. We've talked about it, and decided that in our new house we will set up one of the guest rooms as sort of a little home gym. Thus waiting until we move to get the treadmill.

Uhm, I seriously can not wait that long! I realized today that I will only have 2 days to run this week; and that is unacceptable!

Today: 3.4 miles, the freakin' wind was blowing 100mph, and i was over it.
Tuesday work 7a-7p
Wed- 830-5, dinner in Clermont for Kailyn's bday
Thurs 7a-7p
Fri 7a-7p
Sat - long run. not sure about the mileage yet.
Sun- Easter Sunday = going to Clermont for church and lunch w/ the fam- don't forsee any time to run.

So if I had a treadmill, I could atleast run a few of those nights I get off late and possible Sunday when I get back from Clermont. I need a treadmill. I've been surfing Craigslist for the last few days.. I don't even really know what exactly i'm looking for. I don't know what I really need. Obviously I need to do some research, but i'm desperate to run more. Work is taking up way to much of my life, and i'm totally not happy about it!

I also need to start the Biggest Loser Cardio Max DVD that I bought. . . when is the question!?

I can't possibly get up any earlier then I already get up. Getting up at 5am is already ridiculous enough. I cant get up at 4:15 or 4:30. I just can't do it. My days are to long already .

sorry, this kind of turned into a whiney post.

Good night. I'm going to bed.

Oh humidity, I loathe you!

Got up at 6:15 this morning to get a run in before it got ridiculously hot. ha. unsuccessful. I went to my friends, and from there we were off to the Ft. Fraser trail! We planned for 7 miles today.

We started out slow to get warmed up; boy did we get warmed up. We were pouring sweat by the 2 mile mark. thankfully there is a bathroom and water fountains at the 2 mile mark so we were able to take a lil break. Then we trucked on. Oh it was so humid, i checked the humidity about 45 minutes ago and it was 71%, uh i'm thinkin it was close to that when we were out running this morning.

I am thinking I am going to have to break down and buy a water belt, this FL heat is going to be to much to not have water through out the run.

We are going to run a half in November, so we will really start training in July, joy. The heat ought to be really great then!

Other then the heat the run went very well. It was my first real run since my half last Sunday! I attempted a run on Thursday but it was very unsuccessful! Our pace was alright, nothing to brag about; we kept it between 9:40 & 10.

Tomorrow I plan on starting Biggest Loser Cardio max in addition to my runs! I am feeling insecure with my weight, and I have really slacked off - work is a big contributing factor. I guess I am going to have to figure out how to fit everything in.

I seriously need to run...

or i'm going to go apeshit on someone very soon! I haven't run since my half on Sunday- not because I don't want to. I'm effing dying to run. I simply have not had a spare second.

Monday, got off at 330p, came home, let the dogs out, headed to Clermont to see my grandma in the hospital. Got home around 10p.

Tuesday- work from 8a-7p... our new receptionist called and left a message on our work voice mail, she isn't coming back in.... then our 2nd receptionist walks out in the middle of the day- this leaves us with 0 receptionists. Which leaves 6 days, at 10.5 hr days to be covered by the office manager and I - fun.

Wed- ...supposed to be off... but said receptionists quit and now I am working 8a-7p. .. joy.

I thought about joining the gym. ... but we are moving in 3 months and the gym I would join here isn't over there. The nearest one is 40+ miles..wrong. i'm not driving that.

I just SOOOOO frustrated. I feel like I can't win. I am SO far behind in school. I'm "supposed" to be done in August. I'm on class 4 of 12. Uhhh that math doesn't add up.

I'm exhausted. I know there is light at the end of the tunnel ; when we move; but i'm drowning in the darkness, i can't even see the light.

Thankfully I get off at 5 on Thursday & Friday. I plan on running both days, and I work 830a- 7p again on Saturday.

I have a 7miler planned on Sunday....

then next week is more of the same bullshit. Closing 3 days. ugh. i'm tired.

First Half-Marathon Report- LONGGG!!!!

Let me start this blog out by talking about my Grandma Bonnie- She had not one, but two heart attacks yesterday afternoon/evening. Thoughts & Prayers to my Grandma & My family please. She is in ICU and is doing okay. -- I'll go into more detail about this in my race report, since it happened while we were actually driving over to the West Coast FL for my race-

My mom & I left my house around 1ish to head to St. Pete to check into our hotel. On the way down there my G-ma calls my mom and tells her she is not feeling well, my mom says, go to bed.    30 minutes later my uncle calls my mom and says G-ma is checking into the hospital w/ SOB, Chest pain & L arm pain.....  about an hour or so later, after we've checked in & gone to the race site & about 40 phone calls between my sister who works in the ER , and my uncle we find out she had a heart attack..... so my mom and I go back to the hotel to get my moms stuff; she is going back home to be w/ my grandmother. Now I don't know what to do, i really want to race on Sunday, but geez my Grandma just had a heart attack- from what my sister was saying the heart attack was very minor, they weren't going to take her to the cath-lab until Monday. So i decided I would take my mom home, call my friend and see if she would ride back down w/ me (it's a 2 hr drive from my house to St. Pete) ... She agrees. So about 3 hrs later (7pm) , JUST AS SOON AS WE PULLED INTO MY DRIVEWAY, my sister calls my mom hysterical that my g-ma was having another heart attack.. so now i'm really freaking out, i dont know what to do, but my stuff is at the hotel in st. pete so I have to go back down there sometime. .. my friend shows up, we drive an hour in the opposite direction of St. Pete to go to the hospital so I can see my g-ma.. I see her, she looks okay, I feel better and we head out.. We arrive at almost midnight- and we have to get up at 4:45. JOY.

I didn't sleep.

4:45am.. roll my ass out of bed. eat some toast w/ nutella & a banana, drink a little water.
6:00 show up at the race. My friend decided she would register for the 5k. we got her registered, got our timing chips then ran back to the car, the wind was blowin 90mph..
7:05 gun time.

i'm exhuasted. I drove almost 400 miles yesterday, i had no sleep , and i'm just mentally exhuasted. I thought for sure my race would suck. My legs started hurting around mile 2.. GREAT.

it was really uneventful. I just tried really hard to focus on my breathing and not the fact that i was so freaking exhausted. . .

I got to mile 6 in a little under an hour, this made me happy.

Mile 7.5 there was water on both sides of us and I could see the Sunshine Skyway, which is a beautiful bridge! It was breathtaking, and i'm so geeky I got a little teary.  Then it started raining and the wind picked up and it was ridiculous. I could wait to get through this mile to get back inbetween the trees so the wind wouldn't be so bad.

Miles 8-11 were uneventful. I ate an orange & I HATE oranges, but I was dying.. i remembered why I hate oranges, i spent the next mile picking pulp outta my teeth, uh ew.

Mile 12 damn near killed me. I was SO over it. I wanted to be done so badly, and I was getting so close to 2hrs I wasn't sure I'd make my goal.

Finally at 1:58 I crossed the finish lines, hands in the air screaming the whole way.  Then I found my friend and we jumped up and down and screamed some more.. Then she told me she placed in her age group (her very first race ever) then we screamed and hugged and jumped up and down some more. HA HA HA! It was very dramatic!

Over all the course was great, it is a beautiful course, Ft. Desoto was named one of the top beaches in 2009. It was really flat, and everything was really well organized.

They had hot pasta, cookies, bread, pretzels, danishes, coke, water galore, gatorade & beer after the race. . It really was great. We got our chairs outta the car and just chilled out for a while.

I had a strong race, I was proud to finish in under 2 hrs as tired as I was. I really didn't know If I was going to make it.

Here is my splits:

1 - 9:06
2 - 8:52
3 - 8:51
4 - 8:56
5 - 9:15
6 - 8:59
7 - 8:45
8 - 8:47
9 - 8:58
10 - 8:59
11 - 9:01
12 - 8:57
13 - 8:52

WHEW. I'm planning on registering for the Womens Half in St Pete on Nov 21st. WooHooo!!

Oh, here is my freakin' awesome medal! This is the whole reason I signed up for this half. I LOOOOVEEE starfish. Its a sick obsession. Obviously I ran 13 miles to get a starfish medal, that = crazy.