Mixin' Things Up

Post-Run Kindle Selfie

After going for my easy run on Tuesday - things started to get all mixed up. Thursday was supposed to be my speed-work day, but that morning didn't feel like it would be a good day to try that out. I woke up too early, my knee was hurting AND my neck/shoulder did not feel any better than the day before. So we skipped running in the morning.

On my way home from work I was self talking myself right out of running and promptly told Tom that I would not be running after all. But seeing that he was all set to go it didn't take long for me to at least get out for a little bit of a run - an abbreviated speed-work session. We did ran 200 and walked 200 - a total of 1 mile at the track and ended up with 2.6 miles for the day. Not the 4 that was on the schedule. Not beating myself up anymore. Yesterday was supposed to be my long run, but as soon as we got started I could tell that things would not go well so I turned around and went back home and Tom continued on and did a little over a mile.

After running a couple of errands, I spent a lot of the afternoon resting and icing my shoulder and taking pain reliever. Got a lot of sleep last night and was ready to go this morning! This morning we were out on the road by 6:30 and it was SO GOOD! First mile felt good which was a good indication of how the rest of the run would go. There were a couple of times that I had some doubts that I could get to where I needed to, but Tom said just the right thing and all was well.

Tomorrow we'll do CrossFit and I'll go off to the Chiropractor mid-morning and then we run again on Tuesday. YAY! I'm feeling so much better about this running thing I've gotten into, I'm actually starting to {love} it...shhhhh, not so loud...hee hee.

Week 3 coming up! This week is 4 on Tuesday, 4 on Thursday (Tempo) and 5 on Saturday. Will reset my run days after this week and go back to Monday, Wednesday and Saturday.

69 days...Vancouver Half will be here FAST!