Runnin' with the Devil....

I ran Thursday, but didn't get a chance to post about it. I did a mile in 15 minutes again, but holy lord, it was hard! You'd think I'd be used to it by now, but apparently my butt muscles had other ideas. Maybe it's because I went without music. But I hopped on anyways with 15 minutes to spare before American Idol came on.

I can't decide whether to run today or if I should save it for tomorrow. I'll tell you right now that anything involving Tuesday/Thursday isn't going to work. Not only is The Girl playing soccer, but now she keeps getting calls to play hockey! (That's another story - she's so dedicated to both sports that when they conflicted, she was so torn, she was crying. That's dedication! Or craziness. She can't be my kid, I would've said "screw it" to both - ha!) At any rate, I have to stick to three days a week, and I have to keep adding length to the run. I'm kind of wondering if I should go back to intervals.

Again folks - a prayer if you will for flood-affected people in Manitoba - the area south-west of Portage is being deliberately flooded today in an effort to affect the fewest number of homes. The hometown's still okay. And we're thinking of those in Quebec, Saskatchewan, and particularly the Mississippi flood plains - seems like nobody's safe this year. Take care all.

May 10 - one mile in fifteen minutes!!!

I didn't get on Tready until quarter to eight tonight, so I got lazy. And that makes me laugh. Because only, what, two months ago, do you remember what my standard for lazy was? I'll tell you this - it sure the hell wasn't "only a mile"! Does anyone from my online gf's remember the time I was laying on the couch, typing that I wished I had telekinesis so I could will the chocolate from the fridge to my hand? THAT was lazy! Now if I don't do better, go farther, go faster (wait - what am I, the bionic frickin' woman?) I think I'm being lazy. What an improvement!

Tonight, since I was pressed for time before ushering The Boy off to bed, I figured I'd just set the timer. No intervals, no four minute warm-up. One minutes at about 2.5 mph, followed by thirteen solid minutes of 4.3 or 4.4. Well, okay, I cheated once. I grabbed the handrails and hopped on the side for about 20 seconds when I hit the wall. At the start of "Heart Failure". Why do my legs want to give up as soon as I hear a song about Nikki Sixx OD'ing? (Maybe it's his voice....ha ha! Drool drool drool! Oh wait, am I digressing again? Shit.) And the whole works was followed up by one minute at 2.5 again, which took me right to the end of said song. I was even good about stretching afterward. Go me! :-)

Totally not running-related thought: Flood fighting is going well in the old hometown. The dikes are holding. (What are they holding? BWAHHHH HA HA HA oh, so not funny. Because not that there's anything wrong with that. As they say. Digressing again, focus! Snicker...) Hang on Lisa - it'll hold it'll hold it'll hold it'll hold!

Not directly running-related-but-sort-of thought: Brandy has landed in Botswana. Congratulations Brandy! Keep us posted (I'm sure you will!) And you'll have to let me know what running in Gabs is like! ;-)

Seriously, do I have amazing friends or what? :-)

I'm BAAAAACK! I'm back on the Tready agaaaaain!

Woot! Woot! TWO-POINT-OH-ONE MILES TODAY, BABY! I did "Lies of the Beautiful People" followed by the ENTIRE Sixx:A.M. live album (okay, almost - I finished cooldown about half-way through Life is Beautiful, but it's their fault for dragging it out live!) ;-P  Which worked out to about 36 minutes. Not too shabby, if you ask me! But could I do that in four hours? Good question....

I may start to google some 5K's around Manitoba and give myself an increment to train for before Vegas.

An aside: Happy Mother's Day to everyone, not least of all, my own Mom. (Hi Mom!) Yeah, we're crazy, we make our fair share of mistakes with our kids, but if anyone taught me that you might as well laugh at yourself, if for no other reason than to beat everyone else to it - well, it was her. :-)

Aside #2: Please send all your prayers, positive vibes, whatever you believe in, to the people who are being threatened and/or flooded by the Assiniboine River right now. Some people are stuck with a really shitty Mother's Day. :-(

Enough is enough!

Yep. I was sick that entire time - but I think I finally feel a lot better and I'll be ready to get back in the swing of things! I think I'm actually going to give'er tonight. I was thinking about a Sunday-Tuesday-Thursday routine, but then I realized that The Girl has soccer on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Shit. So maybe I'll try for Saturday-Monday-Wednesday. That gives me Fridays and the weekends off (yay!) and maybe, just maybe, I can get back on track!

What do I have in common with a bicycle? I'm two-tired....(Booooo!)

So it is May 3rd and I am completely exhausted! I'm finally getting over my cold, but I had to bring work home, and I stayed up past 10:30 last night to watch election coverage. Add to that the fact that The Hubbs has worked a full day and has to go back to work at 9:00 tonight, leaving me to clean up after supper and get the kids to bed (not that I have a problem with that), and I don't think I'm running tonight again. :-( On the bright side, I did go for a bit of a walk today with the kids. We went to a nearby bridge that is overtop of our extremely flooded river to take some photos of where The Girl was supposed to be playing soccer this year. If I can ever get the pictures off my damn phone, I'll post them for you. ;-)

May 1, 2011 (Finally!!!!)

I'm easing back into it. Instead of doing a mile though, I set the timer for 20 minutes and did intervals. I made it about 3/4 of a mile though and didn't hack up a lung. Not bad!!! :-)

Schemers & dreamers.....

Just got off facebook with Brandy. We have an idea. Stay tuned in about June or July for deets..... >:-)