Monday, March 7, 2011

Lazy Weekend

Oh my I was pretty lazy this weekend.  It was a pretty GROSS weekend, so it called for laziness.  For sure. 

Saturday it rained, hard, pretty much all day.  It was smamp-city in our back yard.  But towards the end of the day it started snowing.  UGH!  Really?  More snow.  NOOOOO!  I'm so over it.

Yesterday I was supposed to try to get in 16 miles.  However, with the snow accumulation, apparently no one was up to shoveling.  It was a mess.  I got out to get back on the wagon with the intention of doing 10 miles & then seeing how I was feeling.  Yea, I only got in 2.  Boo I suck.  It was so snowy... and below the snow was a layer of ice from all of the rain we got freezing under the snow!  Plus, about 3/4 of a mile in I felt my calf twinge a bit, and I was slipping about ever 1/4 mile.  I just felt like it wasn't worth it.  I'd rather be a couple seconds slower in my race than not be able to race at all.  So I turned around & headed back home.  Oh well, this is another week!  We're about to get all speedy & back on track!

I also got some things done for the wedding.  I made our napkins... well, I purchased plain napkins & I used a stamp that I got with our "monogram" to stamp on the napkins & emboss onto them.  The embossing will ensure that the ink from the stamp doesn't smear or come off on people's faces when they use them!  It took kind of a long time, since I did 100.  Plus the ink pads that I had were super tiny, so I had to stamp them a bunch of times to get ink onto the stamp every time.  It took sitting down to it 3x over the course of the weekend for about an hour or so each time.  But now they are done!  Hooray!




Other than that, I was pretty lazy all weekend. I pretty much looked like the above pic the whole time.  With dog too (that's Mojo!  Hi Mojo!).  And the bowl of ice cream :)  Have you had the girl-scout cookie ice cream before?  We had s'moa ice cream (is that how you spell it?) it was pretty yummy... but I could have done with a few more cookies in it.  Ah well.

Saturday, March 5, 2011

A small injury

On Tuesday, the group I run with, Running Fit 501 did an interval workout.  Specifically, we did a warm-up to the track, followed by 8x800 meters @ 5K pace (supposedly), then cool-down back to your car.  We did this same workout 3 weeks ago.  It's not my favorite workout ever, but it's not the worst.  Anyway, 3 weeks ago, according to good ol' Garmin our 800s were all between 3:24 & 3:44.  This past Tuesday, they were all between 3:10 and 3:20.  Whaaaa...?!?  Apparently we were flying! Um, that's totally not 5K pace, that's faster!
Coach Gina took this photo of us running the track!
 I'm newly convinced that joining a running group was the BEST decision ever.  But this I'll elaborate more on a different day...

Today I must talk about my calf.  After that last 800, my calf seemed really tight.  I haven't run since.  I'm not sure if I tore it or strained it or what, but every once in a while I feel a "ping" in my calf.  It's not fun!  I actually had this same thing happen in my right calf when training in the summer.  But, I took a week off & it was fine.  I've been RICE-ing it, so I'm hoping that come tomorrow I can do the 16-miler I've got planned.  That will be a full 4 days off.  It's feeling much much better now, so I'm crossing my fingers!

This little injury has probably come at the best possible time.  I only had to do 8 more miles this week, so I am only missing out on 8 miles.  It was supposed to be a bit of a step-back week.  My body was starting to get really tired from all the running & working out.  I've gotten to the point in training when you're hungry All-The-Time.  It's probably good that I was made to take a little breather.

I never used to get injuries back in high school.  I thought I was immune!  Haha, guess not... at least it's just a little one right?  Right!

Friday, March 4, 2011

Looks like I started a blog!

The first post is always the hardest right?  Ha!  I feel like I'm typing out a internet dating profile!  "Hi I'm Sarah & I like ice cream, & running.  Be my friend?"  Um... moving on... I guess I'll tell you the basics about me!

I re-started running about a year ago & love doing it!  I'm currently training for a few races, including the Flying Pig Marathon in Cincinnati on May 1st and the Chicago Marathon on October 9th.  I have many smaller races coming up too, the one coming up the soonest is the Rock CF Rivers Half Marathon on March 20th.  I'll put up a tab soon showing all of the races I have planned coming up and ones I have done in the past year.  This pic is from right after I finished the Detroit Marathon this past fall.
I am engaged to be married to my fabulous fiance Brendan on June 4th.  Wedding planning is hard work!  Really.  It's getting to be crunch time as we get closer to the date!  Eeeee!  Brendan is a medical student, in his 4th year of school.  That also means we're currently going through the match.  He's going to be a pediatrician.  We'll find out where we matched on St. Patrick's Day, March 17th!  Um, that's two weeks from TODAY!


So anyway, we'll get this bloggy thing started.  Be my friend if you want!  It'll be a fun ride!