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!