It is amazing (no, actually not really) how any outdoor running just goes right out the window when kids are on spring break. I mean, you have to watch, entertain, feed and generally keep them alive for 1-2 whole weeks, including weekends. I have barely even found time to get on the treadmill, and also when I do get out it appears that I tend to go with a group that is doing something I maybe shouldn't. For example : Hill Repeats. (booooo)
So this last 2 weeks I have been doing indoor Miller worksouts (I only wish it was beer) and indoor bike with my long runs Sunday. And then just for fun I have gotten out the last 2 Wednesday nights and joined the clinic run doing hill repeats. My legs/shins have NOT enjoyed those.
My hips are sore. My knees are threatening. My shins are aching. Is this marathon training? No, this is me needing to pay better attention and not take even small unnecessary leaps. Back to the basics for me and just adding up mileage.
This weekend will be a grueling 23 km (ha, grueling, I can say that because I haven't gone that far since last summer) with a group that I am not too familiar with, but I do know they are generally a happy crowd. At least I will know that I am not the only one out there on the route, possibly the last, but not the only one.
I have been using a shin splint compression thing and that was going pretty okay until it started sliding down... so then I added a compression sleeve under it. Then I forgot it on a 19 km run and my shin made it through the run okay but I think I have been paying for it ever since.
So I just continue on.
I am also very, very slowly chipping away at my pounds... slowly.... like almost not at all.... but that is neither here nor there. It is Spring Break after all.
Nothing much else is happening. Just waiting for May and all the races it brings, and birthdays and a girls weekend away. May cannot happen soon enough.
The last thing that is 'different' this week is I started a fb group for local people (mostly ladies at the moment) to try and meet up with others who would like to get into running. I know, I know.. ANOTHER fb group. But I keep seeing moms and ladies post things like "I would really like to start running but don't want to go alone, is there anyone in this area that would like to try and meet up" and what better way to try and find people than to bring them all together. Maybe it will flop or maybe I will seem like a big huge geek but that is okay. Judge away fb non friend friends. I remember how I felt when I got started. .... Things like Where should I go? Thinking of how slow I felt and that no one else would ever want to run with me. Where is a race that I could do? That race looks fun but I don't know anyone, or don't have a ride, or don't have a clue what to do for my first race!!
If I can help anyone get past those feelings it will be worth it.
Well that's enough of my rambling today, again I am not sure if it made sense but I think you get my drift.
Peace Out Home Slice
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