Saturday, January 17, 2015

1/17

Tuesday: 4 mile run (maybe 5? Can't remember).
Wednesday: 3 mile hike in woods through snow
Thursday: 4 mile run
Friday: 2 hours ice-skating
Saturday: 4 mile run

Monday, January 12, 2015

1/12

4  mile run and another mile walking. I'm walking after just about every run (even though it looks like I'm forgetting to log half of those, but I've been doing at least a mile every time). It seems to help with the plantar fasciitis pain post-run. I'm also downing all my vitamins, &  avoiding sugar and avoiding fried foods (inflammatory). I've definitely noticed a difference although I don't know which is responsible, but since they're all good things to do, I'll keep on with them all!

Saturday, January 10, 2015

1/10

I've been totally swamped this week with editing work; I have a client who had to move up their deadline by several months, so I've somehow managed to squeeze in 25 hours of editing around everything else--oh, and the kids had three snow days! Whew! Basically I haven't slept much this week.

Anyway, here's the rest of the days...

1/7: 30-day shred video and a mile walking on the treadmill. I was really hoping for more but I ended up having to run a ton of errands--plus editing.
1/8: Nothing. We had 30 people over in the morning for a snow day playdate--all indoors since it was -38 outside--and then I somehow played with the kids in the afternoon, made dinner, and then did 5 hours of editing as soon as Neil came home and went to book club 2 hours late. Home about 11:30 and I just collapsed into bed.
1/9: 4 mile run and another 3 hours of editing after we returned from dinner with friends
1/10: 5 mile run and six hours of editing. Holy crap I'm so tired. It's now midnight and I still need to finish up my lesson for church tomorrow (usually I have those done by Tuesday every week, but this week has been crazy. Oh, and classes start on Monday so I've been prepping for that too.)

I have been terrible about paying attention to the clock on all of these runs, as I've been feeling totally exhausted on each one, so I've been trying to ignore how slow I am! Tonight's was somewhere under 9:36/mile for those 5--maybe 9:24, but no faster. Sad day. Oh well...what can I expect when it's midnight as I type this standing on the treadmill?

Not my best week life-wise...I feel like I have missed out on a ton of stuff. I've made dinner every night but I've left to go work at least twice during dinner. I've read scriptures with the kids 6/7 nights, but only read stories probably 3-4 times. I've sat down to play with them a handful of times, but there hasn't been much creative, fun, interesting mothering happening around here lately. On the plus side, we did have friends over, I cooked with Abigail every night and made sure that everyone did chores and homework and piano, we went to the library, we went to the donut place, and Neil has been doing awesome things with them (while I was locked up with my laptop today he was playing Settlers of Cataan with them and teaching them how to make molded chocolates...but if this week has taught me anything, it's that I definitely don't want to work this much on a habitual basis...preferably not at all! But I AM grateful for this editing gig; it's made enough thus far to make up the salary gap created by only teaching one class. Huge huge blessing!

Tuesday, January 6, 2015

1/6

Pretty similar to yesterday--another late-night 4-mile run and a mile of walking. Slightly faster than yesterday but not impressively so. Planning to cross-train tomorrow.

Monday, January 5, 2015

1/5

4 mile run, 1 mile walk. Felt sooo tired! I was up early working and then took the kids to the dentist & orthodontist, then the grocery store. Wish I'd had more energy for running but I had to do so much editing today (4 hours total) along with everything else...so I'll take what I can get for the run. Drank just short of 3 quarts of water and it may have been too much.

Saturday, January 3, 2015

New year, new goals

This has been my worst year so far injury-wise; my plantar fasciitis is still wretchedly painful and plagues every step I take every day. I think I'm starting to see related injuries as my body tries to compensate; lately I've been having hip, back, and knee pain as well.

So...my goal for this year is to bring my body back into balance and alignment. I've focused so much on running that I've neglected  lots of other muscle groups and I've started to make sloppy food choices because I figure I can just burn off the calories quickly (like the time I ate a giant piece of cake 16 miles into a 20-mile run because I was so insanely hungry I couldn't even think about taking the time to find something better to eat!).

Anyway, I'm still going to run 3-4 times a week, depending on how my body is feeling, but I am going to focus on other exercise that works other muscle groups. I'm also going to really zero in on my eating habits and get down to a weight where I really feel great about myself, instead of just a weight where I can run a long time.

So. Daily updates are my goal--here we go! For now I'm just going to log exercise; I may start logging food, sleep, and water intake later, depending on how stressful it is to keep tabs on all of that.

1/1/2015: Rest day after two running days
1/2/2015: Ran 4 miles; walked 1 to cool down, severe hip pain later that evening that lasted into the next day and affected sleep
1/3/2015: 90 minutes yoga, walked 3 miles. Hip pain better after yoga, shins aching while walking, but this was alleviated with lots of hill work.