The First Three Miles Are Always the Hardest

I have had such a busy week. I ended up covering a partial shift for a colleague last Monday - which kept me from doing my family run with the hubs that evening. I would have run earlier but I had to take the Monster to her 2 year check up that morning. Wait, I was pretty sore that day (the day after the half), so who am I kidding? I was glad to have several excuses to avoid running!

I also had to work Tuesday night. I felt like I'd been beaten up on Tuesday morning for several reasons - my muscles were still kind of sore and I barely got any sleep before Monster woke up that morning. I took her to church and played hooky from my Bible study. I threw some dinner into the crock pot and lounged around on the couch. I planned on napping, but I ended up laying there in a trance - like I was too tired to even nap.

I didn't run on Wednesday, either. I was so busy at work on Tuesday night and I died in my bed when I got home that morning. I am such a loser. I feel terrible even admitting how long I went without running!

I did make myself go running on Thursday morning. I dropped the baby off and ended up getting temporarily distracted by many things. First, I went to put gas in my car and realized I didn't have my wallet. Thankfully, I realized this BEFORE I put the liquid gold in my new car. Second, I had to take a business phone call and we had to play phone tag for a bit. I didn't want to end up getting a call back while I was sucking wind!

Oh look! Here's a randomly placed cute baby picture to take your mind off of how badly I am preparing for this stupid marathon.

Thursday's Run:
4.21 miles, 46:04, sunny, 64 degrees

I ended up going to the park and running the loop. It was torture. I'm not going to lie. I know it was a cumulative thing - several days of terrible, limited sleep. A week's worth of the stress. Several days without running. It was just a recipe for disaster.

I picked up a relief shift Thursday night - helloooo extra dollars. If I could have called out, though, I would have. I was so tired! And I had an eye twitch! Anyway, I really regretted going for that run around 4am when I hit "the wall" and once again on my way home when I almost fell asleep. Oops.

Since we are being honest here, this also happened on my way home Friday morning:

I stopped for breakfast with the hubs on my way by his work that morning. We haven't had breakfast together at this donut place since being pregnant with the Monster. I only ate one - that lovely chocolate raspberry fritter there - and he took the rest to his office mates. Suck up. I almost punched him in the gut in the parking lot and sped off with those beauties. I showed restraint. I deserve another donut for my efforts.

In case you care, I used to do a lot more relief before I had the baby. Now, I rarely pick up a shift - I would rather be home with my family. It rarely seems worth the stress and loss of sleep. But, I'm always glad I did it when I get the check. This lovely check will be going towards the unexpected repairs we had to make on my husband's car last month. We always have a silly car repair right before we have to have our cars pass emissions testing! What's the deal with that, anyway?

I slept for a bit on Friday and then went running with the husband when he got home from work. It was a bit easier to run on Friday, but it was still terrible. Well, it was only terrible for the first 3 miles. Good thing I ran so much more than that...

Friday's Run
3.14 miles, 32:17, 69 degrees

We just ran the loop near our house. I did end up pushing the stroller for about a mile - which is a mile more than I have run with the stroller for at least 6 months. As it turns out, my child has gotten significantly heavier since then, and I am significantly less awesome.

I worked Saturday and Sunday - my last weekend for awhile! Yay! My schedule transitions this week, which always makes for an interesting week of running. I have to figure out when/where I will be able to run on this new schedule. I am most concerned about figuring out when I will do my long run. I'll keep you posted on that.

Today was a pretty awesome day. I hardly did anything and got to hang out with the squishy all day! We played outside for a long time because it was so gorgeous outside. We had some rain come through this morning and it was pretty windy all day.

When the hubs got home, we had to squeeze a run in pretty quick-like before he had to head out for a men's event at our church. I put some chili on the stove right before we left, so by the time we got home, it was ready for the eating!

Today's Run
3.1 miles, 69 degrees, 33:!5

We ran the loop around our house again. I pushed the stroller the entire time today - go me! My leg was bothering me for almost the entire run. I didn't wear any compression gear today because it hadn't been bothering me at all for several days. Then, towards that magical third mile, it stopped hurting and hasn't bothered me since.

This leg thing is really starting to wear me out. It needs to get better, pronto. I'm supposed to run 15 miles sometime this week.

Alright, I think that's all for now. I hope you enjoyed this random post. Feel free to send me degrading messages to support my belief that I am going to absolutely fail at this 26.2 thing.