Running because I can!

I ran my four miles in 41 minutes.(treadmill) Ya!  I hope I can start building miles again without hitting a wall again.  I had the treadmill at an incline for half of it and then upped it for my last mile. 

I stretched and then worked my abs really good and then I did a few leg weights..

It felt really good to run more than 2 miles at a time again. 

I decided to make a quilt for my grandpa (The one who's in the hospital)  and then I thought my other grandparents would be left out and so I decided to make one for each of them.   I cut squares all day yesterday, and my behind feels like I did mega workout yesterday.

And the pollens must be really high right now or it is my dumb dog that barked all night the last two nights so I had to bring her in but my allergies are killin me.     

I had my baby go to his great grandparents home today so I got cleaning and lost track of time. 

I took the kids down to the park and was able to run a mile around the track. (9 minutes.) I did not use my inhalor and my chest was getting to tight to breath, I did try walking .50 to see if walking helped but it didn't, so we came home.  My allergies are getting so bad, my nose is feeling raw  from running so much.

I used my inhalor and got my cough under control then I got on my treadmill.  I think I may have had my best times today. i am not sure.

My first 2 miles was in 18 minutes, then 28 minutes by mile 4.10 I was at 40 minutes. I slowed down at the end.  I walked the last bit up hill using weights.   I felt really good and no knee pain at all.    I did keep getting a side ache and that did not help but other wise, I had an awsome day.       

It was such a nice day out today!

I worked in my yard almost all day. We are  pouring a retaining wall and cement pad in our back yard and just trying to get everything planted and looking good.

I finally go tout for a run at 8:30 tonight. I only ran 1.5 miles but it was not on a treadmill and half of it was up hill. 16.19 was my time. I started to get a side ache at the end but I turned and came home because my poor dog could not keep up and I was afraid she was going to die on me. 

i got up early and went for a run. It was so nice outside! My 7 year old woke up and asked where I was going, and she wanted to ome so I let her ride her bike. She had a hard time at the end of the ride but there was a slight up hill slope about the last half mile. We did 1.50 miles. I am not shure of the time because my garmin died after about .25 miles but I felt like we went at a pretty good pace.

I went to the gym later and I got in 3.60 miles in at 33 minutes. I have not had a chance to go to the gym muh lately so I wanted to work my abs and arms. I had about half my abs done and the day care came and got me because my baby was poopy. By the time he is all hanged and i give him back it is time to go. Not what I hoped for but better than nothing.

I ran 2 miles in 20 minutes today. I felt really good the whole time. I wanted to run at least one more and at mile 2 I ran by the house and told my husband to call the dog but she kept following me, so I stopped at the top of my street and came home.

My dog has been limping for a couple months now. She has had a hard time keeping up with me on my last two runs, so I took her to the vet right after my run Saterday. It cost me $138 to find out she has ripped her acl out and will need surgery. She is 4 yrs 9 mths and healthy $2500.00 to fix her leg or to put her down.

I spent the rest of my day doing yard work trying to think of how we were supose to make that choice. My husband is ready to pay for the surgery.

I have ran this race since the first race 2 years ago.  My mom has participated in all 3 races as well.  We decided after the first year we would run it every year and improve our times with each run. The first one I ran in 33 minutes but the entire thing was down hill. The second one I stayed with my mom to try to help her improve her time. This year I decided to give it my all , and thats what I did. 

I have had a crazy week this week and I can't say how proud and disapointed I am at the same time.  Monday we adopted our little boy we have had for the last 10 months. That was a wonderful time, but my stomack started to feel yucky as soon as we got to chilies. And basically as soon as we got home Iwas just down for the count.  Lets just say I have not had the stomack flu like that for at least 7 years. I was down until wednesday.  I lost 8 pds in those two days. 

I knew I had this big race comming up so I did my best to get lost nutrients back. I felt like I was on the mend by wednesday night felt pretty good thursday and friday I had a ton of plants to plant in my garden so I got that done and was feeling a bit like my stomack issues were comming back.  I was really worried that i was going to be walking today.

After no sleep last night, I woke up feeling good and ready to go.   I decided to bring my 7 year old with me because she started asking me before bed if she could come because she wanted to be there when me or grandma won :)    I registered her and she stayed with my mom.

I was feeling so good and I was loving running through the gardens, then at about mile 2 I noticed pain in my knee again and I set it aside ad kept running. I had my garmin on and I knew i could finish good if I did not walk and with my previous knee pain as soon as I stopped and then tried to pick it back up it was way to painful. I was pretty much running and pure hard headedness by the time i hit that last little bit.  My garmin said 29.27 when I finished but the clock said 30. something. although we were pretty far back when the race stared and the timer had been going for a bit before I even went past it. They did use chips this year so as soon as the times are placed I will have to update this.  

I felt a bit shaky and lightheaded but my knee hurt so bad nothing else was on my mind but that.  I tried to walk back into the garden to go meet back up with my mom and daughter but I had such a bad pain in my knee I almost fell and threw up or passed out. So I just sat down on a rock and waited.  I was so proud when I saw them run around the corner.  My mom looked great but my daughter was red as a beat.  They finished at 42 minutes or better. Very much improved time for my mom.

I tried walking around some at the end and it was not happening.  I got home had to go to a wedding and then I went to the insta care.  The doctor said that he thought I had a torn ligament in the side of my knee because I had so much give on the side of it. He said a knee is not supose to bend side ways. He said he would do an xray just to make sure but thought nothing would show up. Well turns out I have bone spures all along the side of my knee cap where the two bones have rubbed or something. He refered me on to a surgen put a huge brace on my knee so I could not bend it, gave me a shot of steroids for the swelling. (pretty puffy) he said I had to stay off of it for 1-2 weeks until I can  get in to the ortho specialist. He said they would have to have me on an anti inflamitory until the swelling went down to access things better anyways.     He basically said what I did to myself today was pure torcher and that I have had this injury for awhile for the bone growth to be that bad.

Despite this all I am proud that I made it through the week and I had my best 5k today. Disapointed becasue if I would not have had all the hurdles this week and a bumber knee I wonder what my time would have been.                         

Things have not been looking so promising with the knee the last couple of weeks. I went to the ortho surgen and he asked me what my main concern was and I told him I needed to get going again and could not be laid up all summer. So he gave me some shots in my knee and told me he could do that all summer if it helped and when I was ready to say just fix my knee he would look into things more throughly.

He said I definatly had alot of swelling and some blistering on my knee cap so to try out riding a bike and then go to other easy cardio then to try running but no hills at all.  he did tell me to stay off of it for a couple of more days completely. 

So I have tried riding my bike. I have alot of knee popping along the way not much pain while I ride but pretty sore when I get off. 

Also in the last two weeks I have been told (By my husband)  that he will suport me in my running by watching the kids but he has and never will have any interst in running. He was mad at me after the 5k because my knee was all messed up. I had just ran my best race after having the stomack flu for two days and on a messed up knee. He could not even tell me good job. Just upset about my knee. (It costs money)

Last night I was finally so fed up with everything. I put on my running shoes and I left. I ran my two miles in 24 minutes. I did walk some. It was about 9:30 and I had eatten a late dinner so I had a horriable side ache.  My knee ached about half way but not anything I could not tolerate.  It is amazing what motivation a person can get when they are finally just done and mad.