Awesome run where I was naked!

Yes I left my house planning to run 10miles and I did not have my garmin or my arm band for my iphone. So I solved the problem by using imapmyrun app and jsut playing my music without headphones. Here are my splits.

I stopped at the beginning of the 6th mile for a potty break at Planet fitness so I am assuming I had a rough time getting back on pace and I had a few places I had to stop at for traffic. Either that or I was dead for a bit. I took pics of my run as well. 

There is a pic of where we were hit by the flood, the all of a sudden end of the trail where I had to off road it and my chocolate milk to refuel!!

Lesson learned: It is very hard to run a long run then go grocery shopping and NOT buy food that was NOT on the list!

But I am very happy to say that this is the first official long run of my not training "training". :)

Laptop, failure puffy cats and sugar overload

My laptop is officially with the Geek Squad and being shipped out to have its mother board checked and repaired. So I will be blogging from my phone today since the back up laptop is slow and the work laptop is nicely sitting at work.

Last night we got in our family run of 3.1 miles and I kept the pace under control thought day was....rough. As Heather put it I had my scary face on before the run but was laughing by the end of the run. It was VERY hard to not let my emotions take over the run but I had manda help hold me back when my legs took off.

We all then headed out to Mommas and Duds to have lasagna. My kitties stormy and Lilly came inside for a visit too.

For dessert we had a sugar over load of brownies with cookie dough baked together topped by the ice cream. There is mine, mandas and Mommas bowls!!

 

Mandas

 

Mommas

 

Mine!! Isn't it perfect?!!

Fitness Friday and Friends

It is a good morning when you get to the gym by 5:45 and then by 7:15 your arms are too tired to lift above your head!

On Wednesday I started talking to a girl at the gym, actually we both laughed at and made fun of this guy who was sprinting between machines. So after a few looks exchanged and laughs had we started chatting. She needed someone to hold her feet while she did sit ups and I was glad to help. We left it like that, no names no background nothing. I shared this with Bri and I said I felt bad that I was in a hurry to get cleaned up I never introduced myself. So today we waved as I walked in and she came over to me when I was doing free weights later. She asked if I could hold her feet again. OF COURSE! Turns out she has a PT test coming up and needs to be able to do 35 REAL sit ups by the end of March. OK I can't do real ones, I can do crunches maybe. So once we got to the mat after our workouts I learned her name is Sam and works as a TSS (how crazy the person I connect with also works in a school!) . She also works at the school I used to work at. So once again we can share stories! Overall it was a great morning lifting and made a new friend! (We also got a few more laughs in at the CRAZY guy who does push ups in a hand stand position WHO DOES THAT??!!)

Later today it is the family run to relax on after two hard runs this week!!

QOTD: Have you made friends with people at the gym??

Thursday Tid Bits

Only a few things to share today and I am exhausted sharing them!!

1. I had an amazing run last night! It was 62 degrees out and for some reason I still packed tights and a long sleeve. I had the long sleeve rolled up after one mile. I ran 5miles with 3 mile repeats in the middle. The warm up was 9:04, the next 3miles were 8:13, 8: 09, then a crazy 7:39 while swerving on and off the sidewalk!! (My knee is feeling it today) Feels so good to have some speed and distance back :)

2. Our flights are booked for our cruise and the cruise itself is paid for!!! So exciting! Now we need to figure out the excursions we are doing. I totally am all over the dolphins and parasailing :)

3. Amanda and I are figuring out when we are leaving for DC for the National Epilepsy Walk. I need to think if I want to bother going to school that day no matter when we leave!! I have a personal day I have to use so I might just take it!

QOTD: How is the weather where you are at? Does it stay nice long or is it nice for a day and then back to cold? Been on a cruise? Any excursion suggestions for Bahamas?

Get up today and try your hardest

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Family Fun and Getting stuff done

I’d like to apologize for my absence lately. It has been crazy at work with everything we need to get done and I am afraid it won’t stopped until June. We are at crunch time now working our tails off to get the kids to where they need to be and securely. I am not a miracle worker but I at least need to try to get my kiddos to make a years worth of growth over the year. My kids are almost there so we are plucking away and fine tuning everything to get there.

This Friday the family all got together for a family fun run for 2.4 miles. Dud took off like a rocket and us girls got scared that we would be chasing him the whole time. We settled into a good 8:30-8:40ish pace for the run. We always finish on an up hill and Heather and I pushed up it real hard this time. I did yell at her at one point that she was to go to the top and not stop! We walked a little and then Robyn came flying by so I caught up and we pushed each other until we got to the door. I pulled up too soon and she ran through the finish. Rookie mistake, run through the line!! We always get a  little competitive when we get to the end of runs!

After our run Robyn and Ella had invited us all to a Spaghetti dinner. Manda made yummy bread to go with the spaghetti and meatball bubbles which confused me at first. It is a meatball stuffed in dough with cheese. It was delicious! We also had Aunt Evie over and her and I chatted away about the MEAN Conda on Biggest Loser. I put money down before the conversation happened that Aunt Evie would hate her. Well too bad no one shook on that because I would have won. She actually had said “ Oh I want to punch her in the face!”. Ok Aunt Evie is 83-84 so it is hilarious when you get into it with her. She LOVES biggest loser and we talk for ever about it all the time. I HAVE to go see her when it is on soon.

 Oh heck yea I will pick an ugly picture of her!!

As I was writing this today I took a break to go run. I hit the Riverwalk for 7.2miles then jogged .3 as a cool down ( I actually hate the last stretch of the riverwalk so I was happy I already had the 7miles in when I hit that part). I had a few whiteouts while running and awful wind for 2.75miles but then kicked butt for the rest of the run! I feel great now!!

Ok off to play around for dinner. Just bought flatbread and want to try out some ideas with it!!

QOTD: Ever bought flatbread? What have you made with it?

Thursday Tid Bits a day late

1. First off I have completed the Fitness challenge that we did as a family. I had an all time high last week with 589 points! I am happy to say that in those 5 weeks I have been hitting the gym on MWF mornings lifting weights. I have jsut started back at Zumba on Monday and Thursday nights. I will be running long runs on Sundays, shorter runs on Wednesdays and Fridays. Hopefully I will be ready for my trail run in May!!

2. It is chaos at school right now with report cards this week and state assessments in 2 weeks. I will be happy when March is almost over! (I just printed and handed all my reports out...I feel so much better now that that is done!)

3. I am getting very excited about my trip to D.C. at the end of March. Jamie and I have been discussing our plans for those 2 days. She wants to run the 7miles around the monuments after the Epilepsy Walk on that Saturday. I am looking forward to a blogger meet up and hoping that I can keep up with her on the run!! (Manda we better get together and discuss the beginning of our trip!!)

4. It is March and I LOVE St. Pat's Day! My whole house is shamrocks the whole year! my next tattoo WILL be a shamrock!!


QOTD: What are your schools up to?? Seuss week? Stressing over assessments?