12 miles

My 'group' run this morning was just me and Chris, a pace group buddy. We are both in Anaheim for work (we happen to both work for libraries, weirdddd). We had to run 12 miles this week. We found a dead dried up river that has a trail next to it, so we went with that. Scenery was boring and also very scorched-earth. Like, this is what the world will be like when we run out of water. We found a dirty dirty baby doll that looked like a true dead baby. It was scary.

My right knee is KILLING me. Very bad. I forgot to use the knee stabilizer I brought so I'm annoyed. Whatever, I ran 12 miles today. Did you? Didn't think so. Or maybe you did, in which case, more power to you.

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Ten.Freaking.Miles

Our group ran ten miles yesterday morning. I'm still in disbelief that I ran ten miles. That was Foster Ave beach to the North ave pedestrian bridge and all the way back. I think driving that is long, but I RAN it. I'm so freaking proud of myself for running ten miles, not complaining once, and actually ENJOYING IT. That's right, I had FUN running 10 miles. I had a great time goofing off with these two cool dudes in my pace group, talking about the hot shirtless runners that would pass us, telling stupid stories...

I feel like this running business is really going to stick. I have the itch today to run but I have to take the day off to recover from yesterday. My feet bled yesterday - where they bend into the top of the tongue of my shoes. I don't know if it was the shoes doing it or if this is what this mysterious 'chafing' is. I'm going to buy some of that runners lube (lol) and see if it helps on my twelve mile run next Saturday.

Speaking of next Saturday, me and one of my pace group pals will both be in Anaheim for a work conference so we are going to do our 12 miles together there! Sort of cool huh? Total small world.

They keep on rollin in

Shizz more delayed thankspaints

God I really am a HORRIBLE person. Heres Jennifer H's, WHOOPS.

Totally delayed thankspaints

Oh.my.god. I TOTALLY forgot to make a thankspaints for two of my favorite people in the whole world - Wendy and Jacob. Here it is, and now I will go hide under my desk in shame. Morts.

workin it

This week I told myself I really needed to start up with some strength training and flexibility training. I don't want to get injured before the marathon! Yesterday I did 50 minutes of Pilates. I didn't realize how UNflexible I had become. Shameful. It was a lot harder than I remember. Today I woke up early to do my run before work! It was nice - nobody else out, quiet, cool and not humid. Worth waking up early to get it out of the way and not have to have it delay a relaxing evening.

Tomorrow I may have a baseball game so I'll either walk for an hour between work and the game, or I'll skip the game and do pilates again at home.

ThanksPaints!

Let's hear it for the three latest superstars to sponsor me! Matty, Steve, and Sumei. Woot!

Group run 9 miles

Today we did 9 miles. Nine Miles, WHOA!!! This is the first time I can say that I'm truly sore. My knees hurt, my leg muscles are tight. Yuck. I iced my knees today which made them feel happy and good. Next week: 10. Insanity.

And thanks to my super sponsors, who will get MS Paint ThanksPaints on Monday:
Steve
Matty J
Sumei

Yeahhhh, you three got me only 30 bucks away from my June 15th 1,000 dollar goal! I'm so close to the 1,500 by July 15th!

8 miles

I had to run with the Sunday group this past weekend due to a late Friday night. I was worried I wouldn't like them as much, and my worries were well-founded! I didn't like them as much! I didn't even like the Sunday coach that much. The pace group Sunday was really disorganized and a bit too snarky for a run. I'm a total snark, but I need a long distance run to be infused with positive nice people or else I'll be miserable. I also like how my pace group is really equitable about who runs up front vs in the back, who takes what duties that week, etc. I like the militancy of my group. Hopefully I won't have to miss another Saturday, or else I can figure out how to do the long run on myself.

We ran 8 miles and it was humid. I keep noticing that the first 2 miles are always the worst, then you get into a pattern and don't think about how far you have gone, then the last mile is bad because you just want the f-in run over with. Then you are done and you feel awesome!

The one good thing about the Sunday group was that the pace leader is a phys. ed. teacher. He was able to tell me a bit about I-T band injuries and ways to prevent them since my lower-outer knee area has been acting up on runs. The last thing I want to happen to me is to get an injury and be screwed for the marathon.