My Running Blog and Other Stuff

.. time escapes me to keep posting a real blog.  training is going really well.  i really got SO tired today during our run, and called it a run at 6.  next week will be ‘fun’... 8 miles in an uncharted area.  but it will get done.  worse case scenario, treadmilling it. 

lots to talk about, just SO little time right now.  naptime seems to be a little more important on this rainy day, esp since i have to go to work in the am.

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almost time to hit the road on our adventure on the left coast.  i am psyched, ready and can’t wait at this point.   can’t sleep, either.  good sign!

My new set of mentees are awesome beyond belief.  somehow,  me thinks that my goal at RnR San Antonio will be there.  Along with my Twin Cities Goal…..  and my RnR San Diego goal.

Can’t wait to meet up with folks at some point in time, too….. 

OK, i’m not being very coherant now, but will be at my next post.  I promise.

Last long run with TNT today.  Went awesome.  Once again, last week came in first after the really long run.  I’m not racing or anything, just taking my time to have fun.  Same thing happened today.  i’m having SO much fun this season. I’m hoping for a sub-5 at RnR…..  Tomorrow we are going to UTBT in the AM to give E his stuff and then do a really nice run there.  some of the other teammates may be there, too….

the next season is going to be great.  GREAT coaches, great folks as mentees… training going well…. what more can a girl ask for? 

running is going awesome.  training is going well.  today is the minnie 15K, should be a good time.  ALL Disney races are fun.  hope to meet up with some folks there….

OK.  We have this new thing for saturday nights.  we have a little decent breakfast, and then wait for dinner time to have a beer and a snack.  (its something like sharing an appetizer platter or something) not condusive to all this training, but we really can’t eat much these days, and its just a waste to order more.  we went to one place in town (names removed to protect the innocent!!) that advertises itself as an Irish Pub.  with a last name lke ours, it should be a usual haunt.  we went there when it first opened about 18 months ago and have never been back…. until last night.  the first night, i ordered a ‘black and tan’ for my drink.  the waitress went ‘huh, is that a mixed drink?’ to which we educated her as to what it was.  last night, i ordered my usual black and tan…. as did dave.  the waitress comes back and says that we can’t have it since harp is no longer available, and they have Dos Equis instead….(a half and half is guiness and harp)   Once again, we educated her on the formation of the drink….  um.  my moniker of phoney irish is still really true.  needless to say, we won’t be back. Oh yeah, somehow an irish place celebrating cinco de mayo is just so wrong.

ok, today was a great run with TNT.  I did the miles in a decent time (16 or so in 2:45:39) and feel great. Decided to change my next race with TNT and doing san antonio RnR instead.  most likely the half, but not sure yet.  it would make THREE marathons in under 6 months if I decide to do that, and FOUR if you include Disney in january.  i really may do the full… just to prove i can. I’ve got a coupld of halves right after that, but that would just be icing on the cake for disney and treat it as speedwork.  I’ve got TONS of TnT commitments coming up, one on Monday that i’m pretty sure i won’t be able to make, but that is OK… I think!!  Then there is some stuff comingup on weekends that should be lots of fun…. all i need to do is (tomorrow probably) is write down everything in the calendar… both paper and electronic.

Other stuff—I had an appointment with the GYN on that fibroid in my utereus on Thursday.  turns out its the size of being 3 months pregnant.  The choices are just waiting until it shrinks or an hysterectomy.  I’m going for the latter given a choice.  Not a great one, but a choice that will take a lot of the pain out of things out of my life…. if you know what I mean.  i’ve got an appointment with a surgeon on wednesday about some rectal growth stuff that needs to be removed so that will be good too.   how to pay for all this will be fun.  the GYN understands that the running stuff comes first and all this surgery and things will be worked around the marathons and training thereof.  cool, huh.  (It doesn’t hurt that these guys KNOW I will jump through hoops to get info for them… so one hand washes the other, I guess…)

dave is doing OK with all this, worried as always.  but he knows that more good for me (us) will come out of this than anything else…. he is feeling better than usual which is a good things.

In yet OTHER news, we sold Mom’s house and car this week… saving us about $800/mo.  Its sad, but you know, it really helps in the healing process.

... great times in the past few weeks…..  racing a lot, decent times, too.  not too great today, but did ok for me.  i came in FIRST last week during group run.  NEXT week is a 16 miler.  My longest distance since Gasparilla.  I cannot wait to do it.  i really love the long distances….

got a thank you card from alex at TNT.  OK, i’m seriously thinking of being a non fundraising mentor for nike… and then doing disney again with them…

Well, i survived that bit of fun and games with the stuff at the ER.  On Monday, my pcp made me come in the next day to review test stuff with me.  Turns out that i have a fibroid in my uterus that has to be seen by my gyn.  lots of fun.  not anxious to see that bill.

Running is going well.  Gotta get in the hills on Tuesday nights.  its just really tough to get out there and do it.  once i’m there, no big deal for the miles.  its just getting there.  but it will happen.  just can’t stay after because have to get up early the next morning…...   the miles today just flew.   breakfast after was fun….

Work is going ok.  Gonna have some ot coming up soon.  that is *always* a good thing….. 

Not a very exciting day.  I spent the majority of it in the ER, and ending with a diagnosis of gastro enteritis…..  still in LOTS of pain, but scared to take the pain killers they gave me….   i will do it just so that i can get some sleep tonight….

more later. 

I’ve added with the encouragement of Coach Rick to do the Run for Shelter (or something like that) 5K in Ybor City on Friday night.  LAST time I did a 5K at night, I was able to get my (then) PR in the distance, and that was after working a long day and long commute.   The weather looks to be right for this….  so I may push. Oh, yeah, did I mention that there is going to be free food and beer there?  The next day is our group run. I’m actually looking forward to running as partners with my folks since Rick needs to be at work… 

A friend from my Joy of Running group is in FL on holiday. Hoping to catch up with them on Saturday somewhere in Orlando for dinner or lunch or something…. I love meeting my virtual friends. ... always a good time!

In other news, I’m pretty much all set for the TCM (aka Twin Cities Marathon).... got my airline tickets on Monday (great price, about $115 cheaper than what it was for the past few weeks)... got the hotel reservation a month ago…. and only a month or so to go to register.  I’m on the same flights as Slow Twin, and we should be able to share a cab to the hotel if we don’t get a ride.  Maybe if we work this out right, we can see some other folks coming in and share the ride with yet more folks.  Dave feels SO much better that I’m not flying out alone and he knows who they are.  I get the feeling that he was really nervous with me going to chicago alone a couple of years ago….. 

Tomorrow Dave and I are back at the festival to see the Smothers Brothers.  Should be fun.  SUNDAY will rock.  We are going to the festival on its last day, and seeing Sugarland.  Work continues to be good…. stressful, but knowing that my run is just around the corner after the day is done is enough to get me through.

GREAT TNT run yesterday.  Did 7 miles, and felt absolutely great.  My Garmin died right at the beginning,so I can’t tell you how long the run took me.  When I was going to the turnaround point for the long distance, i saw a hole bunch of my folks heading back not far from that point.  Made me feel better about the speed.  Good to see Coach Steve there for the run, too… he hasn’t forgotten us.  Yeah, its a much smaller group this time, but that is OK.  Bound to be bigger for Disney again.

Hill workouts and tempo runs will start in two weeks.  I am bound to make at least the hill ones, since its on a Tuesday, and I can make it!!  (I’ll just stay at work a little longer, and thus making the wait not as bad….  just getting up early the next day may be tough. but i will survive…

Off to the gym for some treadmill stuff.  Then coming home, resting, and then going to the Strawberry Festival in town to see Alan Jackson tonight…..