I Am Sore!!!!

Well first off I did my pull ups.  I started off with 3 sets of 3.  Eventually I will get up to 4 sets of 6.  I am sore from the push ups.  The price of stopping doing them.  Eventually you get to where you can do them every day.  Hold on I am going to get some coffee.  I will brb. 

Yesterday it was just Lisa and I so we decided to go to the grocery store, and see if there was anything to make for dinner.  We picked up some sun-dried tomato and goat cheese raviolis.  MMMMMMMM that was good.  I decided I wanted some wine too, so I drank some.  I wasn't sure of my run, because I fell asleep waiting for Lisa to get off work, and meet me in the truck.  As luck would have it right when I got home, I realized I do have energy, and I do want to run.  It was sunny, and I even decided to wear shorts.  It was cold, but my legs don't get cold too often, so it worked out pretty nice.  I just went on the 3 miler with Hope.  Another one of those non-timed runs.  I didn't care.  Just getting out, and getting some miles.  I did stop after a couple miles to walk Hope, so he could smell and go potty if she needed.  Then I just chilled, and drank some wine, and Lisa read.  I ended up drinking about half as much as I normally do on a Thursday = Friday.  That was good. 

Other than that not much going on.  Friday is an off day, so I won't do much.  I'll take my bike to work, and back, and do some push ups.  Maybe I'll take Hope for a little run.  We'll see. 

Not really much on my mind.  :)

That is it for today!!!   :)

Thanks for reading!!!   :)

Hope Everyone has a Great and Awesome Day!!!   :)

xo's!!!   :)

Love You All!!!   :)

p.s.  I love coffee.  (yup, pretty much got nothin)   :D

Love You All xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo

Ya'All are the best  xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo

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Now for really really cya cya cya   :D   :D 

I Followed 3 Blind Mice, Now Look Where I Am At!!! :)

Well, I have to get some coffee, and I am out of milk.  I like milk in my coffee.  You can imagine my horror when I looked in the fridge this morning.  Hold on brb.  :)

This is totally going to be a stupid update I know, but what the heck.  I was going to tell you I got some coffee yesterday at the gas station, even though I already had two cups at home.  I accidentally put some flavored creamer in it.  Vanilla something or other.  That shit was good.  WOAH!!!   I can see how people can get addicted to that stuff.  I figured that would be boring, so I am not going to tell you that. 

Lessee, I guess will go with the day, and go from there.  Work went good.  I felt not tired yesterday at all, so that really helps.  I was in a good mood too.  I rode my bike home, because I left it at work the day before, and drove home with Lisa.  Our run got cancelled so I decided to take Hope for a little run.  A couple notes on my run.  I mostly have been doing a 3.13 mile route, and usually after a couple miles I would just stop, and let Hope Smell and Pee  catch my breath, and stuff.  The last two times my route ended up being the 4.25 mile route, and there were no stops.  That tells me I am getting in shape.  I love stops when running.  :)   I didn't time the run, because I didn't want to.  As I was leaving the driveway the thought entered my mind, but I really didn't care about time.  I just wanted to get a run in.  That was all.  It was a good one too like I hinted at, although the wind was surprisingly cold.  I didn't expect that. 

I also did some push ups.  Starting off slow, because I was not sure how sore I would get, so I don't want to overdo it.  I ended up 3 sets of 10, and the final two sets were really easy.  You know the goal is to get up to 4 sets of 25.  Arms fully extended on the up, and touch the top of my chest on the way down.  Those are harder.  :)  I still have to do pull ups, but I'll do them this morning.  I have to go downstairs to do them.  :)

I then had a couple drinks, and listened to music.  Today will not be a Thursday = Friday though, as the last two days = that.  Not sure what I'll do today.  I may get a little run in again.  Just the 3 miler I think, nothing too major, and then we will see. 

That is it for today!!!   :)

Thanks for reading!!!   :)

Hope Everyone has a Great and Awesome Day!!!   :)

xo's!!!   :)

Love You All!!!   :)

p.s.  xoxoxoxo   :)

Love You All xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo

Ya'All are the best xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxxoxoxoxoxoxoxo

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Extras of these  xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo

Feeling kinda shy about giving extras on top of extras.  Sometimes I think it is silly, but if I wasn't shy I'd give some to Doreen, cuz she gets my sense of humor, and I'd give some to Olga just cuz.  I wuv dem bofe.  :)   xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo

Now for really really cya cya cya   :D   :D

The Sad Music Changed My Day!!

First off I did get a new blog follower.  I don't always give them folks credit, but I love blog followers, so thanks to you all.  Special thanks to Kiet who is the new person who followed my blog.  I followed his back too. 

Anyway yesterday I was tired all day.  I napped during both my breaks.  Not really a big deal, but just something I noticed.  I did ride my bike to work yesterday, but that ended up being it.  A strange thing happened to me yesterday toward the end of my shift.  The music became sad.  That is nothing new, but I don't remember it happening in a while.  Maybe it was to the extent it made me feel the way I did.  I thought about my post yesterday, and I hope it wasn't too bad ass.  I am a runner, and that is what I do.  Not everyone can be a runner, and not everyone can do what I do, and I hate hate hate when I feel maybe I am calling people out for being lazy.  I am not doing that.  This is just something I am interested in.  I always feel a person should be active.  Being outdoors in most cases is better than being inside, although us in the Midwest spend a great deal more time inside this time of year.  I think if you were given two options.  One to sacrifice a lot to train a lot to do races and what not, or to have compassion for those less fortunate, the compassion side is the way more better thing to have, and to be.  That is not man made either.  So if you train, and do all kinds of hard stuff to be a good racer, you haven't done anything nearly as good as taking a minute out of your day to help support a person who is down on themselves or whatever. 

I also think it is not such a bad thing to be down on yourselves a bit either, because none of us are perfect, and none of us have all the answers.  If being down on yourself a bit keeps you from being angry and judgmental toward another then maybe that ain't such a bad thing. 

Anyway that is what I thought of when the music turned sad.  I hoped I wasn't all bad ass on my last post, and people took it the wrong way.  That being said there are choices in life.  If you are healthy and stuff and are able to be active you should be.  If there is a choice to be active or lazy, it don't take a rocket scientist to figure out the better way.  Not to mention people who aren't lazy tend to be respected more than the others.  You only have one life, and much of the shit we do is stupid, but no need to be lazy.  I mean even active people spend a good amount of time doing nothing and chilling.  There is always time for that.  :)

Anyway the sad music changed my day too.  Since real training hasn't started the Tuesday night run can be flexible, since we aren't doing speed work on Wednesday.  So I called Jerry, and we are running tonight.  I went home, had a couple drinks, chilled and was lazy.  :)   LOL 

Have a good one all.   Luv Ya's!!!   :))

That is it for today!!!   :)

Thanks for reading!!!   :)

Hope Everyone has a Great and Awesome Day!!!   :)

xo's!!!   :)

Love You All!!!   :)

p.s.  All blog followers get added to xoxoxoxoxo.  So you all get mentioned every day, even if you don't get mentioned.  :)  and even if I don't read your blog.  :)

Love You All xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo

Ya'All are the best  xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo

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Now for really really cya cya cya   :D   :D 

Much Ado About Nothing...

Not really a lot on my mind this morning, so we'll just start with the workout and go from there.  Workout wasn't anything major.  I biked to work, got chased by two poodles who scared the crap out of me.  So much so I had to get my bike up to 80 mph to get the hell away from them.  ;)   Totally red-lined it.  Couple that with the adrenaline, and my bike to work was pretty hard LOL.  Legs were shot.  Those little yippy fuckers.  :)  Nobody really expects the little demons from hell to be barking at you at 4:30 am.  HA HA HA.   Little Fuckers.   :)

I ran home too, and my legs were tired.  I don't know the pace, around 9:20.  I then napped and read, the book I got from the library.  Mostly napped.  Today will be a rest day until our run too.  6 miles tonight, and a good 4 day stretch to get these old legs used to running some miles, with some of them of the tired variety. 

Let me talk of my year here, because I have a history.  I do not put a ton of pressure on my Illinois Marathon, because if it is a race that ends up being not so good, then it still is good training for the fall marathon.  Also it is good training for the Riverbank 25K.  That is my favorite race, and a race I P.R. a lot.  Sometimes even when just doing the route in training.  I'd love to get another P.R. in that.  Also to get that sub:22:00 5K.  So a lot on my mind this year.  I wonder if people look back at their past years if they feel they have been motivated more some years than others?  Do people feel they were mentally "on" some years more than others?  I would imagine so.  I don't think we are the same day in day out.  That is probably one of the things that drive us all crazy a bit.  We want to be consistent in how we feel internally.  I mean we can be consistent in training I guess, by doing things the same week in week out, but don't we all want to feel great inside too.  That is what we all would like I bet huh??  To always feel good about who we are, and what we are, etc... and always feel happy, and stuff.  Ehhh, just thinking out loud.  :)  

Anyway I did want to leave a link for any couch potatoes out there who would like to get their butt out and about, and lose some weight, and take on a challenge.  Jen Harrison has decided to team up with Beth Shutt again to get your lazy butt's off your ass.  They might not word it like that though.  :)  LOL

Check it out here.  Free coach, and Dietitian as you train for a Marathon.  Couch Potato to a pretty cool medal that you will deserve, and you will work for, and that they don't give away. 

That is it for today!!!   :)

Thanks for reading!!!   :)

Hope Everyone has a Great and Awesome Day!!!   :)

xo's!!!   :)

Love You All!!!   :)

p.s.  I was just thinking of how my year is shaping up to be a pretty good one, and you are going through an injury.  When things are going good for me, it sometimes makes it hard to think of others, but I know it sucks.  :(   xoxoxoxoxo

Love You All xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo

Ya'All are the best  xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo

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Now for really really cya cya cya   :D   :D 

Eeeeeek Don't Have Much. :)

I really don't have much to write about today, I don't think, so I will start with the workout, and go from there.  If you remember yesterday I jumped up my normal 6 miler to a 9 miler, and on Sunday I jumped up my normal 3 miler to my 4.25 miler.  Just a little step up, but that is 13 miles in 2 days instead of 9.  Legs feel good too, so I plan on running home from work today.  I'd have to say little by little I am getting in pretty good shape. 

I do want to say I definitely want to start doing push ups and pull ups.  I let those go, as I always do, but I want to incorporate them in my thing.  It is dumb for me to stop I know, but whatever.  I did stop, so I will have to rebuild that too.  No biggie.  I haven't been timing all my runs, but I believe I have been usually in the 9-9:15 range for the ones I have timed.  I haven't really pushed any runs, but our Saturday run is a hilly run, so we definitely get the heart rate up a few times on Saturdays.

Nothing else really going on past that.  I watched the stupid Bears play yesterday, and I am so over that now.  I like my Chicago teams when they are good, but if they suck, I am not going to waste my time.  How many people watched the Blackhawks when they sucked??  I will say I am excited for the NBA season, just cuz the Bulls are good.  If they sucked I wouldn't care.  :)  I always like my Chicago teams besides the Cubs, but if they suck they suck.

Well, I really don't have much else.  :)  I am up though, so I do it.  Hope you all are doing good.  :)


That is it for today!!!   :)

Thanks for reading!!!   :)

Hope Everyone has a Great and Awesome Day!!!   :)

xo's!!!   :)

Love You All!!!   :)

p.s.  Yay it is Monday.  One of the 7 best days of the week.   ;)

Love You All  xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo

Ya'All are the best  xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo

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Feeling shy for giving extras above the extras.  :)   xoxoxoxo

Now for really really cya cya cya   :D   :D 

Getting Kinda Motivated.

I don't think I really have much, but I'll put a little something down.  I woke up early yesterday, and I won't lie.  I drank a lot Friday night, but I felt fine.  I did my blog thing, and relaxed a bit, and ended up taking Hope out for a 3+ mile run.  I then met up with Jerry, and we did our 6+ mile run.  I decided I wanted to start getting a little longer on my runs due to a marathon being early.  I have to look up the date, but it is sometime in April.  By the time January rolls around I want nothing shorter than 12-13 mile runs for my long runs.  Normally that isn't a big deal, but at my stage now it is, because of the injury riddled year I had this past year.  That being said I feel hungry.  I feel like I want to improve, and I also feel for me to improve I just can't go through the motions.  Remember I had that stretch where everything was a P.R. and improvements were fast and furious??  Now I want to do things more correctly.  I don't know if some people don't drink during training, but I do.  I just don't need to do it so often.   ;)  I want to do that for myself too.  I also want to eat better.  Not that I eat horribly, but yesterday Lisa went to McD's for lunch, and asked if I wanted anything, and I thought about it and said no.  In other words my training is something I think about besides just the running part. 

That I think is one of the positives of an off year.  When you have a year less than what you wanted due to injury and whatnot, perhaps it makes you hungrier. 

Life can be strange, and life can be unpredictable, so I like running and training to keep things on a good note for myself.  Life isn't always fair, and that is one of the unfair lessons in life huh??  People are sick, and people have illnesses, and sometimes we feel we live under a gray cloud, but ya just gotta hold on.  If one thing about life is true is that everything does change, and those gray clouds leave.  Remember I lived post-hospital for like a year under a gray cloud.  All I wanted to do was sleep.  Natlalie got me on the exercise bike, and I started reading more.  That helped take away some of the wanting to sleep  1000 hours/day.  Yeah me, if you can believe it.  Then the sun came out, and still I have some rainy days, but mostly I am in a pretty o.k. mood.  Easier to stay in a pretty o.k. mood if I stay in my comfort zone too, and there is no reason I have to do anything other than that.   :)

That is it for today!!!   :)

Thanks for reading!!!   :)

Hope Everyone has a Great and Awesome Day!!!   :)

xo's!!!   :)

Love You All!!!   :)

p.s.  Hope you have a fun day today.  :)  xoxo

Love You All  xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo

Ya'All are the best xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxxoxoxoxoxoxoxo

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Extras for Doreen :)  xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo  and Jules  xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo

Extras for Olga  xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo

Going to add Beau and Charity to xoxoxoxoxoxo, so they don't defriend me.   :)  

Shout out to Naomi too.  I don't know her well, really just friends of friends, but she is sick, with something or other.  Going in for  a big surgery, and maybe some cancer involved??   Not sure of the whole story, but she weighs fucking 88 pounds.  I don't think she ever feels good, and she has a young son.  Count your blessings you are not going through the shit she is.  xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo

Now for really really cya cya cya   :D   :D 

Today Is A Run Day!! yay

Well, as I am starting to get myself in shape, and getting a base you may think I have some big marathon goal I am going after.  Nope, not really.  I don't have a time I really want to hit.  My first Marathon goal was sub:4 hours, and I did that twice.  I'd love to get back into 3:35 shape.  I was definitely that fast once.  Not for a 26.2, but I could pace a 1/2 at that pace.  That must have been the fastest I ever was.  That only comes about with miles, and miles, and miles, and a little more discipline.  ;)  Really it is about having a plan, and my plan will not start until January.  I feel I am in a good place health wise though, and I feel like my legs can handle running.  I think I could run for days and days in a row, so definitely getting my running legs back.  :) 

Oh, and I do have two new bloggers I picked up.  I don't know them much, but one is named Kiet.  I have seen him around commenting on some sites I read.  He seems like a nice guy, and a Libby B.  I don't know much of her, but I loved her last update.  Just making some changes, and thinking, and looking.  It was really a great update. 

Other than that not much going on.  Hope you all are doing good.  :) 

That is it for today!!!   :)

Thanks for reading!!!   :)

Hope Everyone has a Great and Awesome Day!!!   :)

xo's!!!   :)

Love You All!!!   :)

p.s.  xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo

Love You All xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo

Ya'All are the best xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo

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Extras of these  xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo

Extras for Doreen.   for no reason.   :)   xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo

Now for really really cya cya cya   :D   :D