Body Language

     I learned the hard way to listen to what my body is telling me, last year it took a serious IT band injury to remind me that I am not invincible and that my body is always talking to me. I had a race today at 10 a.m. but when I woke up at 7:45,  I just had this gut feeling that if I ran this race I would regret it. The cramping tightness in my arch has not gone away, and last night I started to feel pain on the outside of my left knee, I asked my mom, my sister and hubs what I should do, but even though they said the same thing that I was thinking, I had already decided not to run the race. That choice hurts, and angers me, but I know 99% that it was probably the right decision I hate feeling like I have given up on something, but last Saturday I ran the Johnnie Sue's Lace Up Against Cancer 5k, and the Saturday before that I ran the St. Patrick's Day Run of Luck 7k, and did pretty well on both of them. I now have a month until my next race in April, and then at least 3 races in May but 2 for damn sure. I am going to take it easy this weekend, do some strength training and stretches and then get back out there  on Tuesday, my brother wants to start working out again...... so I have got figure up a schedule for all this now.

Tomorrow's Race

   I should be excited about tomorrow's race, but yet again I am worrying over a strange cramping, this time in the arch of my left foot. It is beginning to concern me after what some people have said, but I am hoping I make through this race, because I will have a month to heal before my next race. My left knee is also hurting a bit, on the outside of it, I ran 2.77 miles and am feeling it slightly. Not to mention I have been doing stretches and dancing around and lunges as well. God I really hope I survive this without any serious injuries 

Wesselman's Woods Nature Trail

    This morning I went to Wesselman's Nature Preserve to run the 1.8 mile trail, probably ended up running 1.65 of it though. It was probably a little more challenging than the road, so I will definitely have to practice more if I am going to run the Audubon 5k Race on May 14th which has a whole lot more hills and root systems. for 1.65 miles I did 18:00 minutes, so that averaged 10:55 a mile for me on this particular trail which would be about 31:65 for 3 miles on this same trail. Going with that and not having ran the Audubon trail yet, I would probably do around 35 to 40 minutes on their 5k.

Johnnie Sue Lace Up Against Cancer

    Wow, today's race was pretty damn good. Out of 133 finishers, I placed 44th place! I was a little concerned there when I had seen the numbers of bibs, before then I wasn't sure how I would do in a race with less than 300 people.  I was also a little concerned when my pace wasn't very fast, I did 32:49, making it 10:34 a mile. Tomorrow I am going to run the trail at Wesselman's Woods, as long as my legs are up to it.

Today's Run

    Today I went ahead and ran (after running yesterday for 2 miles) after the alarm guys finally finished up at 1p.m. and ran 2.50 miles with 26:56 time. I am pretty amped up and excited for Saturday's race,  I feel myself getting stronger and more confident with these races. Tomorrow I am probably going to take a break though, let my body recover for Saturday's race, on Sunday I will do leg strengthening exercises and core workouts.

Today's Run in B-E-A-UTIFUL Weather

     I was actually able to get out and run today, honestly I was getting a little worried there around 2:00 p.m and the alarm guys were still out here working on the shit. I wanted to go to the Newburgh Rivertown Trail, but a lot of it is underwater =( and that really sucks. So instead I went to the Evansville Riverfront and ran 2.04 miles for 22:34 which wasn't bad for training, I kind of wished I had ran a little faster though. This is only training runs and I am still working on my base runs, but I think I am getting close to breaking past my 3 mile wall.

Run of Luck 2011

      I can honestly say I am proud of myself, the race went well overall though near the beginning I found that a lot of walkers were in the middle and in the way of runners. So I was about 2 minutes behind the line longer than I should have been, but I made up for it. The race was around 4.30 miles I believe, at mile 4 my watch said 42:38 so I don't that that was too bad for 4 miles. Since I hadn't made it to 3 miles in over a month. I won't see my actual race results probably until tomorrow or later tonight though, like I said 2 minutes will have to be added onto the 45:25 that I had when I passed the finish chute. At this moment it looks like I might have another race in just a week......... it is only a 5k so it shouldn't be too awful.

Tuesday's Run

    I was able to run today, I bumped it up from 2.20 miles to 2.68 miles and was definitely feeling the burn and soreness. Unfortunately I have a race coming up next Saturday and it is a 7K which is 4.3 miles. I have less than 2 weeks to start comfortably running 3 miles.