I Run Like A Girl

Was planning on meetin up with the Bermuda Tri for one last run but I bailed and just slept in instead. Sorry guys!

Ended up doing a little jaunt around the neighborhood about 10 pm, my legs were so restless so had to do something get them to calm down.

Ran 1 on my own and then 6 with Peg, Heidi and Tia. Easy 3 tomorrrow. Michelle and Josse (and her sister) are coming to stay with me today. So excited. And I also cant wait to see my sis-in-law Jody and her family and of course cant wait to see all the bloggers as well:)This whole weekend is going to be packed full of fun!!!!

Rode up to the start line with Clyde, Josse, Michelle and Josse's sister Ericka. Ran 1.5 out and then back. Super fun to ride with those guys and get into the marathon spirit. Felt so weird to run only 3 miles easy and call it a day. SO excited for tomorrow and I am just prayin like crazy that my body feels so good and remembers what it is supposed to do.

I dont even know where to begin this, I was feeling incredibly awesome and prepared the first 3 weeks of sept and then the past 2 weeks I have felt very off. I got that blister and then my foot had been hurting pretty bad because I would run funny to avoid hitting the spot. It was a stressful 2 weeks and my body does not handle stress well at all! So I dont know if they played an affect on my tanking of this marathon. I am trying so hard to be strong and positive about my performance today (not that I want anyone to do bad but I do find comfort in the fact that majority of people struggled and were off their goal times, sorry that is very selfish) but I am definetely struggling mentally with it. Its hard when you put so much time, effort and money into preparing to run a race and to feel so prepared and not have it happen. I know there are other races but to wait for the next one to come is hard, I am an inpatient person.  Also since this is my stompin ground everyone around here was waiting to see if I could break 3 and I was so confident (and still know I very capable of running sub3) and now I just feel embarrassed that I didnt.  

Did not sleep well but felt rested and was excited to go although I felt I was lacking the excitement an adrenaline I have before a race, esp SG.  My hamstring started to act up again on thurs (stress) and I was worried about that and my foot with the rain and possibly re rubbing that blister (happy to say my foot or hamstring did not bother me at all, that is a very postive thing!).

Felt ok the first 10-11 miles not great but ok, and was only 1 minute off my pace chart. I was just waiting for the downhill where I could take off but at 11 started to feel a little sick and my legs were not feeling fresh, Andy and his posse passed me here. JamesW came up on me at 12 and we hung together til after the half. Hit the half in 1:32 (off now by 3 min) but still know I can negative split, but I had no go whatsoever. On my favorite part of the course past diamond into SC I can usually hit a couple 5:50'S there but i think I was in the mid 6's. Could not stick with James. Started feeling severly sick to my stomach. Dashed behind a car at mile 18 and then could not get my shorts up cause they were so soaking wet. After this my pace continued to slow and slow. Felt like i was running in slow motion, my breathing was great but my legs felt like dead weight. I felt so heavy because my clothes were sopping wet and so much for lightweight racing shoes! My thoughts are now to just finish , sub3 is way out the window and I am really thinking at this point I am going to be high teens or twentys. See tom ahead of me  (he passed earlier back after andy I think) and just try to keep in view. Catch him and then notice my shoe is untied, try to tie it decent but fail (hands are numb and shaky) and it unties shortly after, I would have left it alone but these laces on my racers are long, learned I will cut them next time. Well I failed again on tying my shoe lace, my hubby is at mile 23 and I call him over to tie my shoe for me cuz i cant bend over again, super sick to my stomach. He told me after I did not look like my usual running self and believe me I didnt feel like it either, I felt like it was not MY body. I caught tom again and then he sped up or i slowed down at the last mile. I was more than ready to finish but with no PR. Ran straight the bathroom, found my family, talked to just a few people, told my hubby to go get my clothes and I needed to get home fast. Felt so horrible, cold and very sick. Got home hopped in the shower, quickly got dress and then alternated between laying on the couch and the bathroom floor. SPent most the afternoon throwing up hammer gel and endurox and then just a lot of dry heaving and that hurt. Also other stuff that I will spare you the details. My stomach hurt so bad!!!! This is not the first time, I have spent many post races like this.I know my salt dips too low and have had no problems this year but obvisoulsly today I didnt.  I think its because I took IB profin this week for my foot and every time I have taken it close to races this happens so now I know I HATE that stuff and will never use it again. I know better but i overlooked it and thought i would be ok.  My splits for the second half are so embarassing for myself I wont even post them. I did have a great time hanging out with Josse, her sister Ericka, Michelle and Jody and going to the blog get together. Thanks guys and congrats to Jody for having an awesome race and hitting her goal almost perfect!! So glad she had a good first marathon!

Update: After my very emotional breakdown this morning (i have a great husband who sat and listened, consoled and comforted me while I sobbed like a baby!) I am doing better and I started to think about Deena Kastor and Paula Radcliff that trained for 4 years for the olympics (paula for her second bad race go around and deena breaking her foot) my race now does not seem that bad. I am sure they had similar thoughts of "of all days, why today?" I will take my little 'ol SG marathon anyday over the feelings they went through after their olympic race. 

Not really sore at all. My quads feel a little tired but thats about it. The worse soreness I have is my abs from throwingup/dry heaving all sat afternoon!  So nice to sleep in and not stress last night about getting to bed early. Plan on running easy tomorrow. I SO WANT redemption for this race. I told myself and my husband that after SG I was going to back off of racing for awhile and I wanted a break (just from racing) . But I so dont now. I just want revenge!  I dont know what my future over the next months has in store but I will continue my training and just play everything by ear and see what happens. I have thoughts of PF Changs with Michelle in January......

Went and ran easy with Heidi today. Actually felt pretty good. I wish I could say I am sore, but I'm not. Nice to go easy and poor Heidi got to hear all about the marathon, I talked the entire time and she was so nice to listen!

(Thanks Beka for the cute note and goodies you dropped off last night and I dont care you stalk my blog :o)

Rested!

Woke up with a sore throat and feeling a little crummy so slept in again, bailed out on my friend Heidi. 

Oh so needed this run! Felt so good to get back out again. Feeling a little out a whack with not running and having my post marathon fat week! I went out on my own today and am one of those extra paranoid people, but I think I may have gotten followed at the end, I was just finishing up and had to run down my street a little to make it an even 11 miles and a van pulled up behind me like they were going to the mailbox, got a really weird feeling and hurried and ran past him and ran into my house (I know stupid because if he was following me he now knows where I live) and he just turned around and drove off, it was not normal, it was creepy! Overall though felt pretty good on my run, legs got a little tired and heavy towards the end and hammie felt a tad tight.

avg pace 8:01

Ran with Jody up in West Valley. Did an out and back run. Felt pretty good, could still feel my hamstring, it would come and go throughout the run. Legs still don't feel super fresh, still heavy feeling. Ran easy out with Jody and then we turned around and I ran ahead a little. I get one more day of getting a treat each day but come sunday I am back on the straight and narrow. I now know why I try to stay away from my treats, they taste good going down but then I feel like crap after. My body is just not used this much sugar anymore! But Jody made some dang cute cookie dough last night! We went to a wedding yesterday and between wedding and wedding dinner went to the gateway and got a few things at Ann Taylor Loft (I justified to my husband because I had a coupon I had to use:) so that helped cure/ease my post marathon blues:) Thank you for shopping and clothes!

avg pace 8:29

Ran some easy miles with Mike. Jody and I scrapped each other on sat night and boy could I feel it today, wow I have some pretty big brusies on my hamstrings. But my hamstring as far as the tightness goes feels much better. I was thinking of going running after work but decided against it because I think someone might call social services if they saw the back of my legs, I cant wear shorts in the daylight for fear someone might come take my hubby away. Dont worry Jody has just as big of brusies too:)

And I think I am going to take a break from blogging. I have gone back and forth on this for awhile now but feel I just spend too much time on the blog and need a break from it. Dont worry I am not breaking from running or racing or keeping track of my mileage- just blogging! I am going to keep my miles up and keep my 2 speed workouts a week and I am planning a winter marathon. 

I dont know though... we will see how long I stay away... ( I am just a little addicted to the blog :)

Easy run with Peg and Heidi, felt good but we took it pretty easy. Chilly today too!

slept in, mmmm...felt good!

Ran with Heidi, felt ok, went to dinner and ate later than usually so my stomach felt like a brick was in it.

So my break from the blog didnt last too long, I was totally kidding myself when I said I would stay off of it for a couple weeks. I feel lost not blogging my miles but I needed a week where I just didnt get on it and so I could accomplish some other things. But I am back, yeah! Plus my mom reads my blog (Hi Mom!) and she said she missed reading my entries.

Slept in and didnt head out til around 8. Nice to sleep in but hate that by the time I get back and showered I feel like I wasted the whole morning. Ran the loop that I usually run with the Bermuda Tri but started from my house so it added an extra couple miles. Felt ok but not fantastic. Had some weird pains in my foot and my hamstring would feel a little tight now and again. But it was nice to just run.

avg pace 8:07

Ran with Heidi, my friend Peg was going to come too but she broke her toe last night! She tried to come but only made it a few steps and had to call it good. Had a pretty good run, just nice and easy  (but it did feel harder than it should of). My hips were pretty sore after yesterdays run and my foot still a little achy. Perfect temps today!

Ran with Cheri through town and on the bike trails. Felt the best I have since the marathon. Had fun catching up and just enjoyed todays run, no weird aches or pains today.

Had thoughts of getting up earlier and getting some extra mileage before meeting the girls like I had been doing before the marathon but that idea was quickly shut down when the alarm went off, reset it and then just met up with them for our usually 6. Legs felt so fresh today, pushed it the last 1/2 mi and wanted more but had to get back for work.

Ran with Cheri 8.5 and then added on a little extra to get 10 in for the day. Nice morning for a run! 

Slept in!  had a rough nights worth of sleep.

Slept in til 7. Ran easy down to the start of the swiss days 5k route, ran the route (marathon pace) and then ran home. (easy)  Took me the first mile of the 5k to get moving but then felt pretty decent, would forget at some points that I needed to be pushing hard and realized I slacking and then would pick it up. First mile was 7:01 and the next two were 6:40's. Felt good to get the sub 7's, since I have not ran a sub 7 since mile 15 or 16 of the marathon:)

So onto other things, so I have had a slight issue in my lower ab/groin  (just like Tom and Cal, except mine is slight compared to theirs). Went to a sports med doc today and have a inguinal ligament strain that invloves the poas and pectineus muscle. He does not think mine is a sports hernia or athletes pubuglia (slightly different area) so that is good. Doesnt hurt to run but gets achy after and hurts with pretty much every other movement. Rolling over, bending over and getting up, lifting, sneezing, making the bed., pushups, weights, pretty much ANything that involves me using my lower ab hurts or feels like its going to tear. Totally tolerable pain but can defineltely feel it. So anyways I am supposed to take it easy and do some physical therapy work to strengthen that area. So I will try to take it easy and incorporate some cross training.  Like I said it does not hurt to run so I dont have to stop running but just take it easy. So a winter marathon is probably out for me, I dont want to make it worse.

Had a very good run with Peg and Heidi, they both needed to be back for football games so we had a good little pace going. It was a little chillier today.  Get to go see April today, havent been since before the marathon and feel like I need a good workover.

Met up with cheri and ran on the trails and through town. Felt pretty good!

Ran with Cheri on the trails and through town, probably overdressed but was glad I did at one point because there is a spot on the bike path by the river that the temp drops. I dread winter coming. So techincally I am supposed to be taking it easy so I didnt run yesterday, was actually planning on it but got to bed late and then decided to just sleep in. Usually I cant feel my lower ab til about mile 6-7 and its usually just a dull ache nothing painful but today it started to ache/burn in my quad the last couple miles. I will scrape it tonight and see how that helps.

Ran with Peg and Heidi and then added on 5 after. I am going to the cannery this morning so I had extra time to add on after. I wish I could do that everyday. Felt pretty good. Still waiting for that run when i just feel "awesome". Havent had an "awesome" run since before the marathon and I am so missing that feeling!

Jody is in town so she met me over at my house and we ran 3 mi down to the swiss days 5k start and ran some faster paced miles. Felt better than I did last week on it. I missed one of the turns and then ran up a wrong road and back down and then ran too far down and then had to turn around (sorry Jody!) I lost my momentum there, got going again and finished up feeling pretty strong. I defintely push myself harder when there is someone in front of me that I am trying to catch. 5k ended up being a little long today:) 6:45, 7:12 (this is where I missed the turn and stopped trying to figure out where I was) 6:45 and and 6:45 for last 1/2 mi. Then we ran easy home and then I added on another 3 mi around my house. Nice to get some fast miles in but I still feel so out of shape! Some tugging/pulling in lower ab last 4 miles.