Bloomsday!

 Sunday is Spokane’s Bloomsday 12K  where I get to run with 50,000 of my closest friends….Jealous?

I knew you would be!

I am way back in BLUE
Hope to change to at least Orange

Jelly Bean Virtual 5K

So this run pretty much sucked. I felt great for the first mile and was like oh oh….bathroom stop needed. It went downhill from there. I couldn’t for more than a few feet

E took the camera to take pictures and J2 and the Principal rode their bikes as well.  So it was THE BEST time I have had on a 5K. Worst time pace wise…but we got out there as a family. No cell phones, no tv, no Wii.  This is my all time favorite route now.

The knee brace is hard to maneuver with capris

The Principal pretty much just circled around me.  Tried to encourage me to RUN…uh…honey I CAN’T!

Just fast enough to tell her to put the camera away!

I sure feel skinnier than this outfit looks

What is a 5K without an ant hill to throw rocks at

The Run Down

Race for the Cure 2011

because we all need pictures of ducks

Here I am all cute before the race

I think I may have to hunt down a

running skirt

So this run was not

what I had hoped

I didn’t run the whole thing

I didn’t PR

or even

PR the race from last year

There were, again, a ton of walkers

I just wasn’t feeling it

For one I am not an early riser

and

I am an hour away from any run in Spokane

So I always have to get up

early

I felt great this morning

and even when I got in line at the start

I just ran out of gas early!

Pretty sure it is because I am a heel striker

not a

toe runner

I ran on the treadmill the other day

barefoot

and love it

Hmmmm maybe I need to change things up???

I will still run Race for the Cure for Jamie

just might be in

Coeur d Alene

less people

processing grief

I picked up my

Race for the Cure packet today

Was totally fine

Got my little bag

my shirts (I bought the tech T)

Walked over to a table of

Pink Ribbon stuff

and

lost it

like

crying lost it

I just turned and D was right there

I cried into his chest for a few minutes

my poor kids were like

what’s wrong with mom?

I don’t know where that came from

Same thing happened the first time

We went to the ocean after my dad died

I sure process grief weird

I don’t like to be normal I guess

Revised schedule

I blogged HERE about my schedule

I am changing things up

a bit

okay

a lot

Pretty much only 2 races on my original plan

Race for the Cure 04/17/11

Bloomsday 12k 05/01/11

then the rest, as follows

Relay for Life 5K 5/21/11

See Jan Run 1/2 Marathon 7/17/11

You Go Girl 1/2 Marathon 9/18/11

 

Losing it

Yep I am losing it

weight!

In August I was 152

Today 145!

I am down 7ish pounds

I say 7ish

because the same 2 pounds

seem to miss me

and come back

I am not sure what exactly is the

key because I haven’t been to

the gym in 2 weeks!

I quit taking

fat burner pills

I started taking

Kelp tablets

and

I am drinking

Muscle Milk smoothies

Which by the way

THE best price on powder

is Costco

it is an investment

but MUCH better price than

Wal Mart

 

So my first race of the season is SUNDAY!

Race for the Cure 5K

This was my first race ever last spring.

I hope to PR that time

and if the world is on my side

PR my 5K time

I will be blog about the race Sunday night

a new plan…again

 

Well

I have changed my training plan

yet again

I am not going to

be able to walk the

3 Day for a Cure

in

Minneapolis.

Even if I were able to raise

the

$2300

with gas prices

as INSANE as they are

I can’t get there.

In October when I signed up

it wasn’t an issue

So

I will just

ya, just

run

See Jane Run

July 17th in Seattle

and

You Go Girl

September 18th in Tacoma

My goals?

To finish Seattle

PR Tacoma

Until I start that training

I am going to focus on strength

increasing my muscle to fat ratio

Just going with the flow…

Do you find plans change often?