Week 5, Day 1–3km baby!

You’re probably thinking two things.  One, she ran? and two, she ran!!!

My toe didn’t bug me much over the weekend so I thought I’d give it a go and victorious, 3km achieved.  Not without a bit of a challenge from a week off and the continuous thought that my toe should hurt, but it didn’t.  So just a long run behind but should be able to make up no problem, I’ll run 9km this weekend and then the race the following weekend.  YAY!  fingers crossed nothing else goes wrong

View from the path:

Just me because I didn’t want to take Dartagnan if I only made it to the end of the street and had to turn around, he’d have been way to hyper.  So just me and the beautiful weather.  It was a chilly start to the run, about 50 but with the sun out I warmed up quick.  I love running in this weather!

The Music:

• Beth – Glee
• Supermassive Black Hole – Muse
• Neighbourhood #4 – Arcade Fire
• Satellite Mind – Metric
• Jacob’s Theme – Howard Shore
• You and I – Lady GaGa
• Dream On – Glee
• Firework – Glee

Until tomorrow.  I have tennis tonight and then Body Pump in the morning!

Week 4, Day 5–Body Pump and a winner!

I kept going back and forth whether I would go to class today.  My toe is a loverly shade of purple and it’s spread to the top of my foot.  The swelling is down but still quite sore. 

But I went.  I had to modify some things and completely omit the lunges.  For some muscle groups I use a split stance with my left foot back so today I had to put my right and boy it was weird!

I got through it!  Today was also the launch of the new release and the three instructors dressed up for Halloween as an angel, devil and a fallen angel.  They also gave out door prizes and guess who won one????

That’s right…ME:)

I won a 25 dollar gift card to an Italian Eatery. 

In the end I’m glad I went to class.  Both because I feel better, but also because I get dinner out!  On the plus side of breaking ones toe, the lunge track was brutal.  Glad I got to miss that one or I wouldn’t have been walking at all this weekend due to the pain.  Now it’ll only be with a slight limp.  I was also excited because I could put my runners on.

Until next time.  I doubt I’ll attempt a run this weekend, maybe next week.

Week 4, Day 1 & 2 and an unfortunate break

Hey all, I’m into week 4 and feeling pretty good.  I ran my 7km (4.5 mile) on the weekend and my goals seems achievable. 

Well it did, right up until yesterday afternoon.

First I will admit to working out both Monday and Tuesday.  Monday was tennis.  I had wanted to go for a run as well but spend the morning dealing with the bank and them believing I had stolen my social security number.  There are two and half hours I’m never getting back.  All is resolved, at least for now.

Tuesday I did a body pump class.  Loved it, felt strong when I finished.

Then I came home…

Last week I cut the tip off my thumb whilst chopping apples, then yesterday I was just walking through the family room into the kitchen when my baby toe hit our rocking chair.  There was some screaming and profanities that made Rowan tell me that that wasn’t nice, but sometimes you just can’t stop yourself.

So now my toe is 3 times bigger than the other baby toe and a beautiful shade of purple…and yup it’s broken.

Now I’m that person who’s wearing socks with sandals because I can’t put my shoes on.  The socks are b/c it’s cold.

Now I’m hoping the pain lessens in the next couple days and with some tape I’ll be back to running next week.  I have two weeks until my race, so I should be able to run by then but I may or may not be able to run it all.  Ah well, it does feel, however, that it only ever happens to me :)

I’ll still be going to Body Pump on Friday but probably not  my tennis lesson tomorrow.

Heal baby heal!!!

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