Week 6 and 7

Week 6
Traci and I ran 10 miles on Valentines day, in the rain. How romantic. Also, this event included a lot of dumps and was followed by a mass gorging of pizza.

Week 7
Friday was my first long run all by myself. Scarrry it was. I went on Saturday because I had to work on Friday and I didn't want to have sore feeties at work. So alas I did it. Dad helped me map out  my run before he went to sleep. It was cute :) Then I did it. It was horrible, I won't lie. It was amazingly windy. I was running straight into the wind. It was blowing all the snot right out of my face and I was using my gloves as a handkerchief, which - I need to remember to bring next time. The wind made it a strong resistance to run against, which I so did not need on a 12 mile run - but I was bound and determined. It was funny because when I was running over the gould street overpass the wind pushed me right up and right down the hill. I was HAULIN. But pretty much everywhere else besides that distance from gould to yellowstone was me running straight into the wind. My whole first mile - running down chubbuck to hawthrone and my whole last mile- running from chubbuck to hawthorne were the worst. The wind was pushing at me, trying to get me down. Nu-UH wind, I'm made of more than that. I did complete the 12 miles, and also 0.75 miles of cool down because I got done early and just kept walking for the last 3/4ths of a mile to my house. I got really thirsty toward the end, just like I did last time. I need to remember to bring water with me, and maybe a snack. It took me 2 hours and 30 minutes to do 12 miles which is a sucky sucky time (like 4.8 mph) but I'll let you in on a clue as to how my time got to be so sucky. I was there at the end, ready to make my way up olympus hill and home, but I still had like 4 miles left to burn and I knew that home was only like 2 and a half miles or so away, so I kept going up on pocatello creek road and went up satterfield, which was a horrrrrible mistake. It's this huge huge hill, and I was in no way prepared to run up a hill for like 3/4ths of a mile, which is how long it turned out to be up hill (which was an oversight on my behalf). I especially wasn't ready to do that after just having ran 8 miles soooo I walked for that 3/4ths of a mile and even that was a workout because it was uphill. The wind also slowed me down a fair amount, and my overall laziness slowed me down. In the end it's all whatever. I did it. I'll go faster when there isn't wind and I don't pick such a sucky route.This week I'm supposed to run 13 miles, which is pretty much a half marathon but I have to work Friday, Saturday, and Sunday and I have a test Friday so I won't be going Thursday so I'll just have to skip this week and go 13 next week, which means I won't be able to finish my training in time for that spud marathon that we were going to do, but it's O.K. because I don't need the extra stress of completing training on time what with school and work. Also, I'm probably going to take treefort week off because I don't want to have sore feeties from doing a long run while I'm there. I need to save my energy for music watching. After these long runs it always takes me like 2 hours before I even feel like I want to casually walk around again, which sucks. It's like 2 and a half hours of running, 2 and a half hours of lazing about. That's like 5 hours right there. Oh well, it's a good investment of my time. Building up them tendons for greatness! I created a playlist of the artists that will be at Treefort. I got like 1/2 way through the list and gave up, but I think most of the 2nd half wasn't on Spotify anyway and was mostly just Boise bands. So on my long run I listened to 2 and a half hours of that playlist, and I created another playlist that was "liked from treefort" and every time I heard a song that was pretty good I'd send it over to that playlist so I can further investigate that band when it comes to choosing artists to see. Obviously some really great Boise artists are left off my list, but at least I have somewhere to start, some ideas of bands that I like and some I don't really like. I listened to the playlist again today, it's all been surprisingly pretty good music to run to.

Here's my daddy helping me plot out my run using the phone book and a measuring tape. Cute.

here is my actual run

 here's some views from my run. I don't know how I never noticed this house painted solid orange before. It's right next to the outback golfing range.

 

 Doing some foot stretches. My hips REALLLY aren't lying these days. WTF. Also, yes, my spandex is getting too loose.

Racing towards the New

 I went running with Kyle Friday and that was awful, he stayed with me for the first 2 miles then after that he ran like 5 paces ahead of me for the next 5 miles, I was getting soooo annoyed, it's like hey buddy, you're running with me, can you not just run next to me. I felt like he just wanted me to run faster. I'm like hmmm, lets see, I still have like 5 more miles to go - sorry buddy. Would it have killed him to run a little slower? Then after that this guy in my ward who was training with the law enforcement ran with us for a bit, and then Kyle started running further ahead, I told him he could just leave which he did. It was soo annoying. So I ran with Quenton for a mile, then he left with his  crew and I ran by myself for a mile and at this point I had 1 mile left to go and Kyle ran with me for the last mile, even though he had already finished. I was really annoyed, I just wanted him to leave. It's like O.K. buddy, you can run faster than me....cool. I was less than impressed. Most everyone can run faster than me - so woop ti dooo number two. It's not like I'm racing or anything, I'm training, and I don't need a running partner that doesn't even run with me. When he was running like 5 paces ahead I was very annoyed. When you're feeling tired and running 5 paces behind someone else, it makes you feel even more tired and way less hopeful. It's down right demoralizing. After he was all excited and peppy and during the last mile of us running together we cooled off, so you could tell he thought he was off the hook for what he pulled, but then he talked about "next time" and I informed him that it would not be advantageous to run together anymore and I explained my reasoning/frustrations. He was really sad/bitter after that and didn't say one word after that. We stretched and went our separate ways. That was kind of a downer. He made me feel like the bad guy when really he was the douche canoe that was too selfish to run next to me. So I did a 10 mile run in 1 hour and 53 minutes...and I felt slow about it, no thanks to Kyle, which I should have felt amazing about. I mean technically that's only 5.3 mph and that's really like jogging but it's 10 miles O.K. leave me alone. Granted I had to go to the bathroom 2 times during our run, which made me happy that we ended up running on the track with a bathroom near by. I saw some people from my ward playing tennis, and all the hotty tennis players too which was cool. I don't ever want to have to run on the track anymore though, not only is it super boring but also all the turns aren't fun on my ankles. Next week is only 7 miles, MERCY! After the 10 miles I went home and was sooo exhausted, it took all my energy I could muster to shower and change. I was tired because my feet hurt so bad and I didn't want to stand on them, but also because I hadn't eaten since breakfast and by the time I finished changing it was around 4.

Today I wanted to race my 5K at the gym but I figured it was a fat chance since I had all this backed up poo  in my bowels because my body doesn't ever like to take a dump unless its demanded to. So I tried anyway. I got to 2.7 miles in 23 minutes before it came, I wanted to just do the last 0.4 miles soooo bad, but I knew it would be bad news so I hopped off, went to the bathroom and finished the last 0.4 miles. Maybe I'll try and test it out again on Wednesday.

love.love.lindsay

the week before I got sick again

Yes, this past week has been trying. I got sick again. My last post I mentioned that I had started to feel better, well that only last like 5 days and then I got much worse. However here is a run down of my week 4.

Feb 3
Monday- Rest (sick)

Tuesday- Ran 3.5

Wednesday- Ran 3.5

Thursday - Ran 3.5

Friday- Ran 8.37 and then walked an additional 3.5 in my daily activities. So I don't feel bad about stopping early.

^ I was really nervous about running this 9 miles. It was the furthest I have ran since the half marathon I did in 2011. It was not bad at all. I was really fine until the end I got hungry and bored. I was easily able to run all of it. I did stop for a phone call, and to send some texts/ e-mails but without those distractions I am sure I would have been fine to just keep running. The facts that need to be addressed here are that I was hungry so I guess I need to start eating more before I run. I also think it is important to be conscious of staying extremely hydrated the day before a long run and to eat healthy foods as well. I treated myself to the most delicious hot chocolate with a flourless brownie after the run. How could I not after running 9 miles. It was weird though as I was headed home after my run I remember feeling like a panic like I need to eat food now or else which was a bit stressful.

After the hot chocolate and brownie I then devoured wings and sushi from Whole Foods. I went for 2 weeks with out eating gluten. This was during those glutenless times. I recently decided that since I do not eat dairy, that alone is enough of a dietary restriction for me and I started to eat gluten again. I love bread way too much.

I will say that I really did baby myself after my run. I really was fine, but I made it a point to go slow, take a long shower, snuggle in bed and make Trey give me some good leg and butt rubbs etc. I mean I spent $20 bucks on I just ran 9 miles- I need this food. It was worth every penny. I know that I was over babying myself because later that night I went to a club to celebrate a friend's birthday and was perfectly fine dancing all around in heels.

I think the most important thing that needs addressed is my boredom. I need new music. Any suggestions?

Saturday- Rest

Sunday- 3 and then I started to feel really sick.

I tied this gigantic key to my shoe for the first time this year and I wore a skirt because is was like 50 degrees. This may be part of the reason I got sick. Lesson learned, no matter the weather I am going to continue to wear leggings until I am completely better and spring has sprung.

Monday- Hot Vinyassa Yoga to recover/ get rid of the sick I could feel coming. However I still got really sick and I took an entire week off again. Regardless it really felt good to stretch and sweat out some toxins in the 100 degree studio.

Yesterday, (5 days later and rested) I finally started to feel better, but I am going to play it safe and wait 1-2 more days before I start running again. The last time I went running too soon the sickness came back.

I did go to yoga again today, Sunday. I felt like it would be easy on my body and a good way to wake up my muscles from taking a week off. I have been diligent about going to yoga at least once a week. I can tell it is helping my body recover better and is making me stronger.

Long Lengthy Post about annoying boys and running. (week 4)

 I ran 9 miles last Friday. That's the furthest I've ever run outside and that's my first run outside since I started this - needless to say I was horrified. Not only that but I'd agreed to go with this total weirdy- which was also kind of stressful since he's been texting me non-stop all week long and I'm just like ease off dude. Luckily when we were running he didn't act weird at all, he was totally normal and even seemed pretty cool. He's just wayyyyy too clingy. I was really grateful for him though because he helped make it go way faster - which is exactly what you need when you are running for 1 hour and 40 minutes. That's how long it took to do the 9 miles, which was how long I was hoping it would take because that's 9 11 minute miles (5.4 mph) which is slower than what I usually do (10 minute miles) but I wanted to have a good pace so I wouldn't wear myself out. It proved to be excellent. I was actually really impressed with myself because I was able to talk for the whole time while maintaining that pace which, I remember the two times I went 6 miles with Traci in the past I was wheezing the whole way and she was just talking at me. So that was big improvement, however with Traci we were probably going faster.. I don't know. We actually went a little bit faster than 5,.4 because we had to stop at Albertsons because he had to go to the bathroom and I didn't stop the clock for that because I figured it would be artificial since were resting during that time. Speaking of the bathroom, actually I ran an extra mile because while I was waiting for him to get out of class at Reeds, I ran for a mile for a warm up so that I could hopefully go to the bathroom before we ran. I ran at a pace of 7 mph for a while because I wanted to get to a bathroom point fast and I figured the more shaking around I did the faster. The heavens blessed me and I was able to go before and I didn't have to go at all during the 9 miles of running which would have been absolutely horrible. So I'm probably always going to have to do an extra mile whenever I run outside so that way I don't sabotage myself. Another good thing about bringing this Kyle fellow along was that he hasn't had a car most of his life and has always walked or biked wherever he goes which I thought was pretty cool, so he knew a lot of mile markers of how far certain distances where. He would say things like from here to there it's 1.7 miles lol because he'd done it a lot. He used to walk/bike to places like golden coral an mystique from where he lives on campus every day which I think is pretty cool. I know that what he says is true because I've seen him out walking a few times in the past. It was especially useful because he helped map out our 9 mile run as we went because I didn't really have a plan as to where to go, we just went. Our route started at Reeds gym then we went past the hospital and then down center street then over onto main then Benton over to 5th down til Ross park then we went onto 4th and back up to Reeds. I felt like we just ran the whole border of campus, it was pretty cool. At 7.5 miles I did some bad math and told him we still had 2.5 miles left to go because I was stupid and was thinking about 10 miles, so we went another .5 miles before heading back so we ended up finishing our 9 miles at like tastee treat and then we walked up to Reeds. It would have been perfect if I wouldn't have messed it all up. Oh well, it was kind of nice because we went from thinking we had 2 miles left to only having one, which made us really happy. There were points in the run where I could tell Kyle just wanted to speed ahead, which I warned him that he would be too fast for me. He seemed like he was starting to get impatient, but then other times he was tired like me, so I think he's just bad at pacing himself. I think he could have gone faster for sure, but he probably would have wore himself out before being able to finish the 9 miles, so we did good together. The bad thing is that before too long he's going to be speeding ahead of me because I gave him a copy of my running schedule and he is doing the training now too and this is only the 4th week and he just started this week. I need him for 12 more weeks! Oh well, he'll just have to stick with me if he wants to run with me. He certainly could have been worse. A lot of guys would have just left me in the dust... which he will probably do when he gets faster. He still has been so obsessive with his texting since then which is ugh. I don't have the energy for that. Oh wellllllllll.

Today I have to run 10 miles today...I'm too pansy to run out in the snow so we are going to run at ISU's track.

TRACI: Surprise, surprise

I haven't told anybody yet, but yesterday Micheal and I went out to Auger Falls.

We ran eight miles.

Lots of the run looked like this:

And like this:

It was cold as hell. Pretty sure the temperature was 16 degrees.


My foot/ankle started hurting halfway through, but the cold hurt even worse.

I talked Micheal's ear off. We were dying at the end. Imagine, an hour and twenty minutes of my voice. You'd be dying, too.


Feelin' pretty good now.

traci: Hiding My Shame

A wise man once said that on the day one comes back from recovery, he should do it alone.

Okay, well no one ever said that, but I wish they would have.

Today after school, I went running for the first time in over a week with my coworker. He's a math teacher. He's very logical. He's run something like 12 half-marathons, and he has three jobs. He's sort of INSANE. So my foot starts to hurt.

It starts to hurt in what I'm thinking is actually the tendons of peroneus brevis.

It's a deep inner pain that makes the tendon feel like it's been torn; and when I run on it for too long, the pain spreads to the side of my ankle and up to the actual peroneus brevis.

My foot begged me to stop. I told my foot that that would be too embarrassing (in front of the math teacher who has gone out of his way to run with me. I'm wasting his time).

I think I made it worse?

Limping again.

8-ish days of rest wasted.

yoga much: R E C O V E R Y

Jessica: I am turning into a Yogi. I am really passionate about the importance of yoga and I think it is going to be crucial as I train for this marathon. Lets face it, training for a marathon is really rough on the body and honestly a bit dangerous physically if you are not stretching properly, icing, eating the right foods and staying hydrated. It is hard mentally as well.

To help combat these things, obviously yoga is my favorite. I want to have one day a week (Sunday) where I hit the mat for an hour and just let it all go. It feels good to release some of the built up toxins and tensions in my body. My muscles need it to recover. Plus I am not the best at stretching so going to yoga really forces me to get those deep long stretches for an entire hour that I would not do at home.

The spiritual/mental aspect to me is really important too. In my last session a few days ago I literally burst into tears of gratitude. I am so grateful for my body and what it does for me daily. Yoga helps my spirit feel more connected to my body. I am very harsh on myself and my body's appearance everyday. I love being spiritually enlightened and appreciating my body and what it can do for me especially while it takes a beating training for a marathon.