Oregon running girl

Whew!  Put a huge hill in about midway thru the run.  Overall, a nice pace for having to stop and walk up the hill half way.  9:50 ave.

Up and at em' early.  At the gym by 4:30 to do 45 minutes of weights and then a 3 mile run.  Felt great.  Oh how I love...well I hate the early wake up call....but how I love the coffee all by myself in the morning.  It's a great time to get my chats in with God.  

Tempo run this morning.  The "fast" stretch about did me in.  ;-)

Weights for 45 minutes and then a nice 3 mile run on the TM.  Started at a 9:30 pace and slowly bumped it up over the first mile.  Ended my run at 8:15 pace!  Whoo hoo--Haven't ever been that speedy!

Started out with the intention of doing 10 miles, 3 miles at 9:30, 5 miles at 9:00 and the last 2 at 9:30.  Sadly, I was sidelined at mile 6 with vein pain in my quad.  I walked for a bit and limped thru the last 2 miles to the car.  Average pace was 9:25 for the 8 mi.  Not bad, but super frustrated that my mind, lungs and muscles are ready and the leg pain--which is a few years old now--says no.  Dang.

35 minutes of weights and then a 3 mile run at a 9:26 pace.  Added a big hill to help get ready for the Shamrock Run in 2 weeks!!

Sick.  :-(

Sick.  :-(

Started with ambitions of 7 miles.  Leg hurt at 3 1/2 miles.  Walked/ran at a snails pace home.  

So, so frustrating!  Shamrock Run next Sunday is not looking good.  :-(

Well, not a 9 mile run.....but a 9 mile bike ride.  Can I log that here?!  Feel like I should be tracking what I am doing even if it isn't a run--keeps me motivated!  I also did 45 minutes of weights.  Taking it easy this week with hopes of being able to complete Shamrock Run on Sunday.  

5 more miles on the bike.  Still trying to rest the leg for the race on Sunday, but also get some cardio in.  I also did 40 minutes of weights.  Sadly, it is hurting tonight from my everyday activities.  Dang it!!!!  All I did was rode the bike, took my dog for a walk and weeded  my yard. 

Hmmmm.  Sunday is not looking schwell.  :-(

Wow.  Feeling oh so happy to have completed this race with the leg issues that have been plaguing me.  It is was sllloowwww and steady on the hilly course.  It was a pitiful pace but just so happy not to come home broken and unable to function.  My goal was to complete this race without too much pain and I succeeded!  Yippee!

Treadmill.  9:30 pace

Lovely run on a sunshiney day.  9:22 ave pace.....GIDDY!

ran outside in the rain with Shannon! whoot whoot!!

Run with Shan!!!  :-)  Love love love!

Pain in leg at mile 3.5.  Boo.  Lots of walking/running, stretching and boo hoos on the way back. DANG IT.

 My only golden ray of sunshine was being able to run with my bestie. 

TM

Lovely early morning run with no rain. 9.34 pace.  Felt great for this run! Hooray!

9:20 pace and a monster hill.  :-)

9:30 ave pace.  Lovely solo run, good tunes, sun shining.  :-)

9:14 ave pace.  Bright and early tempo run.  Great way to start the week!

Ah, lovely 6 miler in the sunshine.  Great start to the weekend.

Runnin' in the rain this early Monday morning.  9:24 pace.

After a run Monday, boot camp and digging with a shovel (alot!) on Tuesday and then another run this morning, my leg is angry!  Dang it.  Had to stop and walk a little under 3 miles, but was able to finish my jaunt this morning.  Tomorrow: rest.

Running while the sun came up.  Good thoughts and prayers towards Shan while she was running her 1/2 marathon and I was out for my long run.  :-)

9:25 ave pace.

9:16 ave!  Whoo hoo.  Fast for lil ol me....probably b/c of the rain and the rockin' tunes in my ears.  :-)

9:25 ave pace.  A beautiful sunrise run--lush and green surrounds me on this misty OR morning.

9:30 pace.  Running partner couldn't go this morning so my hubby joined me on his bike.  What a sweet man to get up at 4:30 to follow his wife around the loop.  Feelin the love.  :-)

Felt a bit sluggish today and the right leg hurt quite a bit today.  But oh so happy to have my run in today.  Vein is being injected with sodium chloride on Tuesday---it is supposed to be quite painful and put me out of running for a while.  :-(  Hoping it is a long term fix to this stupid varicose vein issue I have dealt with for years.  It is a long shot but an option to try before just taking the vein out.  Say some prayers that it will work and not be too painful. 

I just wanna run with no leg pain.....is that too much to ask??!

9:18 pace.  Leg was screamin' the whole way.  :-(

First run in 10 days.  The dr. restricted me to walking only for 2 weeks.  He had me go for a "test run" after 10 days to see how the leg felt.  Sadly, it hurt quite a bit and was oh-so achy last night.  Not sure what to do next......

*SIGH*  Another "test" run that was a bust.  Attempting to run 3 miles....just 3 miles.  Made it 1.5 and had to stop and walk because of the pain the leg.  Ran another .75 and was walking home by the end.  The leg is just not happy.  Dr. follow up tomorrow morning....

Another "trial run."  Seemed like a looong 3 miles.   9:30 crappy pace.  :-(

Yippee!!!  Finally a run where I felt pretty darn good.  The leg is pretty achy now though.  Hey, I'll take it.  Hoping to run more than ONCE this week....

9:30 pace.

One meager mile.  A test run to see how the leg is doing after injections on Monday.  FELT GREAT!!  I would've kept going but was simple out of time as I had already been at the gym for an hour doing weights.  Sure hope this is the beginning of a new running plan!

Yay!

9:38 pace.  FELT AMAZING!!!  Whoo hoo!

9:28 pace.  Yay!  No pain.  I think I have run more in the past 2 days than I have alllll month!!!  Ha!

9:23 pace. Gosh, do I dare say: I'm BACK!!!

Longest run in a month+, feels so good!

TM at the hotel.

9:28 pace.  Tough run for me.  Stopped 4x, about every mile to walk for 1 minute.  Not sure what was going on.  Either way, a good start to the week.

Yippeeeee!  3.3 miles, 8:55 average pace.  Fastest yet.  Happy girl over here!

7 pain free miles!!!!!  YIPPEE!

Love this whole "running with no pain" thing!!  Ahhhh

9:44 ave pace.  

Lovely little run this morning!

Beautiful Saturday morning run.  So happy to have my local running partner back in town!

S L O W run today.  Just couldn't talk my body into going faster.  Guess this means I'll be due for a wicked fast run this weekend.  ;-)

On a super happy note:  I registered for The Runaway Pumpkin 1/2 marathon to be ran in October.  Yippee!!!  Training starts Aug 5.

9:39 pace.  Training for next 1/2 marathon begins on MONDAY! 

9:42 pace.  

1/2 marathon training has officially started!  Boot camp and 3 miles today.  Feels great to be so productive and it is only 7:30am.  :-)

30 min tempo run.  9:25 ave.  

TOUGH boot camp this morning with intervals--running laps in between the weights.  Figured I did about a mile and a half.  I was going to go run 3 mi after boot camp for my training but was simply too tired.  I had a hard time getting thru all the workout at boot camp and was honestly wishing for gu.  Weird.  So no official run for me today but hoping it will make my 5 miler tomorrow be amazing.

Weird foot/ankle/heel issues!  Been there for a while now.  Took the weekend off with the hopes of it just needing rest.  Wore my Mizuno's which are technically worn out but do have more support.  Really just hoping it is a shoe issue since the Saucony's are the only time I strayed away from Mizunos.  We will see......

Speed workout today.  400 x 5.  My lungs felt like they were on fire!  I know it will make me faster though, so I do love it.

I have heard so many people say they think my heel pain is plantar fasciitis.  I dismissed it because the pain wasn't on the bottom of my foot.  However, I do fit every other symptom--most pain when crawling out of bed in the morning or after sitting for quite sometime or after standing all day (teaching).  Any one have experience with this??  How do I fix it?  I read to wear shoes with more cushion and stability so I dug my old Muzunos out of the closet.  I also have been icing after each run.  Ideas, thoughts, experiences welcome!

The run itself felt oh so good this morning!  However, in logging this run 5 hours later, my foot is screaming!  SNAP!  What to do......what to do?  Dr. appt is not until Sept 14, almost halfway thru my training.  Just not sure how to proceed.  The mind says YES, the body is saying eerrcchh!!!  Grrrrr.  

Well, after 9 weeks (!) of rest due to plantar fasciitis, I finally got clearance to run 1 mile today.  The bonus: I got to run with my husband (not a runner dude).  He has been a trooper going to boot camp class with me 2x/week since this whole thing happened.  Over his time in boot camp, he had built up enough stamina to join me today.  Off to stretch and ice and hoping that it feels awesome tonight so I can do another mile tomorrow morning!  YAYA!

Another mile for me.  Can feel the heel tonight though.  Grrrr.  Ice and rest for me.  SNAP.