The Zumba Crazy,,, sometimes Runner chick

Another day at Duck Creek. I didn't get in any running this day but still did some cool stuff! We took some nature walks with the kids this day, and we also went to Mammoth caves - it was so awesome, we climbed through a couple of caves there, at one point we were inching through about a 2 1/2ft space to get through to another cavern. All my boys came with me, my five year old made it with me the first time through - we went through again and encountered some bats and then Rhoman was scared and wouldn't go any further. Even Scotlyn made it through the first part of the cave with me but when we had to start crawling she got scared and I had to take her back (Moses wouldn't come with us - The chicken! ha ha )All together we climbed through three different caves and there were more that I wanted to do but we didn't have time. Very, Very cool!

GOALS FOR THE WEEK:

Mon.- 5 miles PM

Tues.- Gym AM - Weights/abs, Teach 8-9

Weds.- Run 5 miles AM

Thurs- Gym AM - Weights/abs, Teach 8-9

Fri.- Run AM - 7 miles

Sat - Run 9 miles

*26 miles total for week

Had a nice evening run with Merri. We only swallowed a few bugs!

Taught Zumba 8-9 PM.

Ran with Merri for 5 miles. Still having this wierd random chest pain, its starting to concern me.

Great 7 miler with Lily and Merri. Good conversation! .... I woke up finally after about the 3rd mile.

The week ahead:

Mon:   AM- 9 miles w/ Merri

Tues:  Gym AM - lift,  PM- Teach Zumba

Weds:  5 Miles

Thurs:  Gym AM - Lift,  PM- Teach

Fri: 10 miles

Sat:  run to the gym (5 miles) and do Zumba.

*29 total miles for week

8 miles with Merri.

5 with Merri

PS - I'm a sucky blogger lately!

Merri and I had a great 10 miles this morning! This is the longest I have run thus far. I am so proud of myself. I never ever thought I could run 10 miles! WOW! it feels like such an accomplishment. Thanks Merri for being such a great running buddy and pushing me along.

8:02 Avg. pace. pretty good!

Ran at the gym on the "dreadmill". I think 3 miles is about my threashold on the TM.

My plan was to run to the gym and do a Zumba class and then run home- but I slept in - oops! So 3 miles on the TM had to suffice.

It feels like Fall today - its a nice change. I'm liking the temp in the 70's. ☺

3 miles with Merri.

Lily and I had a great 8 mile run this evening. Went pretty quick - good conversation!

I'm getting so excited and a little nervous for the Hobble Creek 1/2 this Saturday! My first 1/2 Marathon - I hope I can make it!

My goal - 8 min pace. So that would put me coming in about 1 hour 45 mins. Sounds good to me! Thats what I'm shooting for.

I'm really frustrated right now because my knee is really hurting. I think I did something to it last night at Zumba. I'm hoping this is NOT going to effect my 1/2 tomorrow.

WHAT GREAT TIMING! WHY??? WHY TODAY???

UPDATE: Knee is feeling a lot better now. I put some muscle rub on it and the more I walk around and move on it its feeling better. It hurt last night before I went to bed and then when I tried to put weight on it this morning it really hurt - I was limping around all morning long. Pain is still there but it seems like its getting better. I think I'll ice it tonight.

Done with my first 1/2!! woo hooo!!!!  My time was 1:32:48. (7:05 avg. pace)  I feel so good that I did this and beat the goal I had set! If you would have told me a year ago I would be running a half marathon I would have laughed at you. I'm so glad I set this goal and stayed to it and got it done. I really like running now, thats something I couldn't say right at first.

I think I'm going to be kissing another toe-nail goodbye after this race.

I felt good and had a lot of energy. Right around mile 8 my toes started to hurt (they were bleeding), but I pushed through that. I really didn't start to run out of steam until about mile 11. Then i had to start mentally pushing myself to go on. When I got to the last 1/2 mile I picked up the pace again and passed up quite a few people. And then when I saw what I thought was the finish line I started to sprint. Much to my dismay we still had to loop around and run on the grass to the finish line.

Everyone had on I-pods/headphones -- I thought we couldn't have them! I think I would have run faster had I had some music!

Ran with my girls - Lily and Merri. We did a drop-off/pick-up sort of thing! It worked out good! My legs are still hurting from Saturday - I wonder when they'll loosen up?

I'm thinking about doing the S.F. 5K or the Onion days 5K over Labor day.

AM -- I went to the gym and lifted. Its been about 3 or 4 weeks since I've done any kind of weight lifting. I was trying to see if I stopped lifting for awhile if that pain in my chest would go away and it worked for now - we'll see!

PM--ZUMBA BABY! 8-9

PM- run with Merri. 4 miles.

AM- Gym - lifted weights/crunches

PM- Zumba 8-9

Great run with Lily and Merri this morning. Too early though.... I am so tired right now! I went to bed too late and got up too early. I need at least 7 hours to function. I got about 5 hours last night and its just not enough. I have no energy and no motivation to do anything when I'm tired. And i get stressed and overwhelmed so much more when I'm not getting sleep.

New Goal: Get to bed earlier!!!!!! I NEED more sleep!!!!!!!

5 miles with the bomb diggety Running partners!