Tin Woman

I don't like daylight savings time. At least not right now. I've been trying to "catch" up since I got back from FL and have failed. I need my extra hr of sleep for sure!!!

I did nothing yesterday. By the time I got home, cooked dinner, bathed everyone, it was 9 PM! The gym closes at 9, so that was that.

So today, I left shortly after I got everyone cleaned up and ready for bed. Got on the treadmill for 30 min, and did about 5 on the elliptical to warm up the muscles.

I felt like the Tin Man from the Wizard of Oz. Since I did so poorly with my exercise last week, my joints were killing me! But it got better after a while. Tomorrow is cross training and I am going to do some weights, now that I have a better idea which exercises work best.

I've been telling more people about my marathon endeavor. Told my priest, who thought it was fantastic and told me he knows I can do it. Also told an old boss (he used to be my boss ages ago) and he said he wasn't surprised, that it's very much "like me". I guess he thinks I'm a bit crazy? LOL

Still dealing with teething babies. It's getting better though. I think part of the problem is that grandma stayed here during the night while I was in Florida, and we all know grandmas love to spoil their grandkids. So they are being 're-trained' and are resisting it.
But I'm glad she was here because I know they enjoyed having her around, and I was more calm knowing there was someone here to help my husband.

Another week and a fresh start

Thanks everyone for your words of encouragement. This last week was really hard for me. Not only was I away from home, but it seems all the "stuff" sort of piled up on me at once.

But this is a brand new week and I get a new start. I didn't XT yesterday, my niece turned 16 this weekend and she had her party yesterday. She is so much fun, most teenagers wouldn't want a party with family and friends. She wanted one with a space jump (inflatable jumping thingie)!!! It was so much fun to watch everyone, young and old, jumping in there.
I was good and ate moderately, but I twisted my ankle/leg walking to the car and today, my leg is sore. It feels more like soreness from exercise, nothing major.

I did, however, fixed my lunch for today since I ate out all of last week. The scale is showing a bigger number, which normally doesn't bother me. Except I feel sluggish and I know it's because of the choices I made last week. So I went to the grocery store and bought stuff that's good and healthy for this week.

Got a comment yesterday from a family member that put me on the defensive. I was asked how far I was running now. I said right now, we had just passed the 2.5 miles on the long distance runs. The response was "that's it? you still have 24 miles to go". I didn't let it get to me though, I am building endurance, not trying to kill myself. I just said I could tell the difference already, when I started 30 minutes walking was a struggle and now 2.5 miles is very doable.

I have so much work to do (why is it everything piles up when you are out of town) and just realized on April 2, I have to go to Cincinnati. I'm dreading it, I just got back into town!!!

Happy to be Home!!!

Finally back to MS!!! So good to be back. I was in Orlando all week, in training (groundwater pollution and hydrology class). As boring as it sounds, it was a very good class. But very LONG. We were in class from 8 AM to 8:30 PM. I managed to exercise one day, shame on me!!! I was exhausted by the end of the day, and I had a hard time sleeping at night (always happens when I travel).

So although it was a good week careerwise, it was not a good week for marathon training.

My stuff started creeping out today, started to doubt whether I can really do this. Did I bite more than I can chew? My life is FULL of responsibilities, I'm not superwoman, and I'm beginning to wonder if I can truly do this.

*sigh* I will keep training though, I'm not a quitter. I'm going to give it my best until the end of the month and then decide if I'm going to make it to Chicago or not.

I missed the meeting this morning. I was not going to go since I just got home and didn't want to leave the kids. The twins decided to "welcome" me home and kept me up ALL night. They are teething and they are just not coping well with it. And to top things off, their allergies are beginning to bother them. Thankfully they have a checkup scheduled for Thurs and I may ask the dr. if they should take something like Claritin to avoid all this.

I'll do my best to catch up with everyone's blogs. I'm so happy to be back home. Did I say that already?