Week 1, Day 5, August 30, 2011 - 3km

I did run this morning and yesterday I played tennis.  I didn’t feel the need to blog about it yesterday because really I just ran around the court for an hour during my lesson.  But it was an awesome workout!

As for today, I ran the loop with my training partner Darty and it was delightful.  The temperature has finally dropped and was down right pleasant out there.  My run was better but not great.  Still I got out there!

View from the path:

The dead whatever was still out there but that was about it.

The Music:

It was good but then the girls got a hold of it and it’s several hours later, so I don’t remember the exact list.  sorry

 

My goal is to run once this weekend too!

Week 1 Day 3–Sept 28, 2011 3km!

Who was the spaz who decided to come back to running after a month off during the most humid week of the year???  oh yeah that was me :)

Well to say that this mornings run was soupy, than I’m not sure that’s enough to describe it.  It was gross.  I mean I’ve described runs before as like running through a cloud but this morning was worse and I couldn’t before imagine how.  But I did it, it wasn’t straight through, but ah well.  3km is harder than I remember lol

View from the path:

Today I walked Abby up to the bus then Rowan and I crossed the street and she went to daycare.  I love the convenience of it all.  Some days I even walk Rowan home from daycare with Dartagnan! crazy.

I started my run from Little Treasures and ran the block.  But because of where it is located, I ran the loop backwards which always makes for an interesting run.  Your landmarks are off and of course what’s normally uphill is downhill and vice versa. And that too makes for a challenge, especially in this heat.  I decided not to take Darty which was probably a good idea.  I did take him for a walk of our street when I got back, so I could cool down (which wasn’t possible, so muggy!)

I’m now 3 days for 3!!!  First week is always the easiest, it’s keeping it up for six weeks, now that’s the challenge :)

The Music:

• Safety Dance – Glee
• She’s Not There – The  Zombies
• Thanks for the Memories – Fall Out Boy
• Teenage Dream – Glee
• The Catalyst – Linkin Park
• Closer – Nine Inch Nails
• Any Way You Want It – Glee

As you all know I love me my Glee but I gotta say I’m a little disappointed so far with this season.  I love Rachel and Kurt but what about the rest of the cast?  Where’s my Finn, Puck and Arty??? Or just a group number? I’m just saying!

Until tomorrow!  Tennis lesson is on tap. Here’s hoping my shoulder is good to go!

Week 1, Day 2–Sept 27, 2011

So last night I played tennis and didn’t embarrass myself.  After my lesson last week, my confidence was back.  I actually won several of my service games, with the help of my partner of course.  However, during one serve I seemed to have tweaked my shoulder.  It’s more of the “you haven’t done this in a long time what the hell are you doing to me” pain, than having actually hurt myself.

Now to this morning, I took a body pump class.  Because of said “tweak” I decided not to aggravate it, so instead of anything overhead, I did dead rows.  So if you’ve taken a body pump class before you’ll know that with the 4th track (clean and press), I did a stellar number of rows!

Tomorrow I run! 3km

Until then :)

Week 1–Day 1 (Sept 26, 2011)

I did it! Can I just leave it at that?  no, ok.  It was ugly, but I knew it was going to be.  I mean what did I expect after over a month since the last run.  I ran 3km, just the around-the-block loop and Dartagnan came with.  He was a happy puppy this morning!

It was a bit different than normal too because instead of going before everyone got up, I waited until all were off to school and work.  I’ll have to get use to that! It was a nice temperature too, but the humidity was gross.  ah well, tis the south :)

View from the path:

There are more people out at this time than at 6am.  No other runners but many more cars.  The biggest shock was the dead unknown animal on the sidewalk.  I say unknown because I think it’d been there a while.  I had to take a wide berth on it as I’m sure Dartagnan would have loved to have given it a good sniff.  I know, gross.

So I’m glad I ran, now to keep it up.  On the plus side, my feet didn’t hurt!

The Music: The music was on my side this morning, I so enjoy when I can sing to the music.  It makes the awareness of the pain go away LOL

• River Deep Mountain High – Glee
• Welcome to the Black Pearl – My Chemical Romance
• Pullin Punches – Arkells
• SOS – Rihanna
• Starlight – Muse
• Wake Me Up Before You Go Go – Wham!
• Nine In the Afternoon – Panic at the Disco

OK, here I go again!

So what you’re seeing here is my registration for the Raleigh City of Oaks 10km on Sunday November 6th at 7am.

oh yeah baby, here we go again.

Since the whole foot thing I’ve not run at all and then I got the “back to school” cold that neither of my girls got so I think I got both of theirs.  Almost 10 very long days of hell.  Last week was my first back to the gym and I was pretty good and worked out everyday but Thursday.  I’ve also gone back to tennis too. Played twice last week.

My friend Lisa, who I ran the marathon with, is coming to visit that weekend and we’ve decided to give the 10km a go.  Rob would have joined but he’s in the midst of his marathon training. He ran 10 and half miles this morning!

So just 6 weeks away.  First run tomorrow…wish me luck :)

This would not be the best time frame for a 10km, but it’s also not my first.

This is my plan:

Week 1 – 3km
Week 2 – 5km
Week 3 – 7km
Week 4 – 9km
Week 5 – 10km
Week 6 – 10km(race)

here’s hoping for no colds, no injuries and no hurricanes/tornados/earthquakes :)

Until tomorrow!