Sick

Last Wednesday, I was hit with some kind of bug that still has not left me alone. I ran on Tuesday after class and it was terrible. I took yesterday off and spent the day with my bf and I want to go today but I am still not feeling it. I am going to go to kickboxing tonight and lift weights before hand so that might be a good thing. I don't know if I am going to be able to make it to my race now due to my illness. I want to still try because I only have 11 days left of training and 16 days until the race. I think I might be able to pull it off but who knows! Guess we will see how tonight goes and then go from there!

Oh hot damn!

After what I thought was allergies, I am not settling in to believe that I am actually sick with the common cold. I have not been sick in years and now I finally got sick. The good thing is that the only area that is effected is my head but my body is not sore (at least not yet). I took some good ol nasty nyquil last night and got a good nights rest.
In addition, I ran my 20 mins yesterday! It was a little difficult to do because I was chugging along not running very fast and it was a little painful. I want to go run today but we will see how I feel after class. I have to present a project today and I am so not looking forward to it. I was put into a group with three people that do nothing but slack! It is so annoying! Well off I go to start the day!

This weekend

I have not wrote in a couple days and figured its probably time. On Wednesday night, I woke up with an extremely bad sore throat and thought it was because I was sleeping with my mouth open. But it was not that reason more like ALLERGIES! I have never ever really suffered from allergies until this week. I don't get why or how it happened but I am in a lot of pain. I took some of Chad's nasal spray but I don't think that helped much. My face is kind of puffy and my whole sinus is miserable. I hate this! I think I will go to the doctors on Monday to see what they say. :(

I cleaned my closet out today and filled 5 trash bags full of stuff to donate. I think that as we move each time I obtain less and less stuff. I came across a pair of pants from high school/the time I moved out; I actually fit in them! I am very happy about that because that means that I am actually loosing weight! I meant to weight myself last week but some how forgot. Tuesday will be my weight in day and I am hoping for some positive results.

I ran everyday last week including Sunday except for Today (Saturday), Friday I took a weight lifting class and a semi boot camp class with my friend Amy. She made us run up the stairs at the parking garage it was a killer. I hate it with everything that I had. But it gave me some cardio that I was looking for. I am taking today off and am suppose to run with Chad tomorrow. We are going to go jog the GOTR park which will be a lot of fun! I am really excited!

Terrific Tuesday

Well what a day!!! I ended up finishing week 4 of C25K and I am SO happy! My other friend that is doing this app and I have been talking about how we are having pain in our legs. I thought that it would have been the opposite that I would have had a hard time breathing but nope my legs. Kerri another friend of mine suggested that I take longer strides on the treadmill and that totally helped. So not only was I able to run at a faster speed but my legs did not get as tired as fast. I think that I need to start running outside because I am kind of getting bored with running in the clubhouse. Or I need to get a new play list to workout to because my music is kind of boring me.

On week 5 day 3, I am suppose to jog for 20 mins straight! I am really nervous for this and think that I am going to hold off and do it on Saturday. Go to campus and run around like a mad woman in the early morning. I am getting excited about the GOTR and am really hoping that with the hard work and effort that I have been putting out that I will be able to do the June 5th race.

How could I forget to talk about this one issue in my blog: MY WEIGHT!
On Thursday I will step on the scale and see if any improvements have been made. I don't feel like there has been a lot of weight loss just more so on muscle gained. My cavs are getting huge so huge that I cannot fit in Capri pants! But hopefully I have lost some fat off my body! Lets just start praying. Although I have not changed my diet, I have realized that if I run at night I am not hungry at night and if I run in the morning I am not hungry. The other thing is that I am so not interested in sweets anymore...like many of you know I LOVE CANDY! But ever since this past week candy has not interested me. On Monday, I walked past a bowl full of peanut M&M's and today I bought candy at Freddies but no interest...its weird. Well off to make the bed then a bath to soak my legs :) Good night world!

Manic Monday

Its 7:43 AM and I am waiting for the club house to open at 8..there is always this man that runs right when the clubhouse opens and I am hoping that because I live closer I can get there faster. After running yesterday, I had no pain! I am so happy that shoes fixed my issue! A garden was planted for me yesterday by my boyfriend and that was a nice treat. Well I am off to stake the clubhouse and hopefully wont die running today!!!!!!

Weekend update

I spent Friday and Saturday with my mom and it was amazing. I cannot begin to tell you what an amazing mother that I have. Once I graduate from college, I cannot wait to be closer to her so that we can spend more time together. My mom was kind enough to take me shoe shopping and I got two pairs of New Balance shoes. One for running and the other for casual wear.
I went for a run today and it made the world's difference to have good shoes! I love them soooo much! 5 minutes was a lot harder to run than 3 minutes!

TGIF

My friend Katie wanted me to join her at Dixon today but I thought that I needed a break. My legs were killing me then I popped some ibuprofen and poof the pain went away. The last day of week 3 was a bit of a struggle for me...Not sure why that is but probably because I was a little tired or something. With 29 days left until Girls on The Run and 18 days left of training, I am getting a little bit nervous about not being able to run the race. Seems as though I am pushing it a little close but I guess my body will tell me when the race gets closer. I think that one of my many issues is that I do not have the proper shoes. I did buy running shoes but I think the fact that they are worn out and probably not in new condition is the issue that I am having shin splints. Seeing that I am doing everything that I can to treat them with medicine, stretching, elevation, and icing it is still not helping. Shoes seem to be the last thing on my list and seeing that I am going to be running outside for the race I should have the proper shoes.

Off to Eugene for the day with my Mom!