Wednesday, Thursday, Friday & oh yeah a a little thing called Saturday

Wednesday, Thursday and Friday: 
3 mile walks each night with C.  Got on the dready early Wednesday morning but my left shin was burning so I decided to call it a day after a mile and stretch. I'm trying to be better about listening to my body and  not push through the pain anymore.  I want this to be an injury free year.  I missed rehearsal on Wednesday because quite frankly work sucks.  I did dance at home a couple mornings during the week though in an effort to stay caught up with the group.

Saturday: 
Thursday morning C mentioned taking a 10 mile walk and Saturday and Sunday.  I said no thank you ma'am!  My plan was a 4 mile run on Saturday out in the sunshine and I just didn't have a 14 mile day in me.  But of course I couldn't resist getting on the USATF website and mapping a little something out.  I was able to map out a route that would let C continue her walk while I pounded out my 4 mile run then we would meet back up and walk another 4 back home together.  Easy peasy lemon squeezy right?  Well things didn't go exactly as planned and C got an intsy bit confused so I ended up running 5 before I caught back up with her.  The good news is I ran every single step and I felt great!  Well for the most part.  The funny thing is that my foot is 100% tolerating the running but the left side of my body is in rebellion.  Everything from butt to my toes is unhappy, stiff and sore.  After about a mile I was able to settle into a comfortable 10:30ish pace though.

It felt so good to plug my ear bud into my left ear.   I only wear one because I'm Fraidy McScardeypants that someone will come up on me and I won't hear them with both ear buds in.  So as I was saying before I so rudely interrupted myself, I got the tunes going and the sun stated kissing my face with her warmth and all felt right in my world.  This is the part of my life that I have been missing.  I love the feel of the effort, the blood pumping through my veins, and the sweat on my skin.

A few random things from the run...  As I ran along the crushed granite path I noticed what looked like parsley sprinkled across the sand colored surface.  Realized that it was actually grass clippings and that I apparently spend too much time watching Food Network and in my own kitchen!  Also I had the epiphany that I'm a little lot a bit in love with Eminem.  This really isn't news to me but might be some of you.  You see under this ex-librarian exterior is an inner rockstar that loves things like bad boys and tattoos.  Anyhoo, as my iPod put random music selections into my ear My Band by D12 began to play.  I absolutely love that song.  It's Em at his misogynist pig finest and I can't help singing along.  He really cracks my $*#@ up!

So there you have it, my week in review.  Life is good.  I get to spend time with C everyday and I'm getting back in my groove. 

C wants to try to walk 6.5 or 7 tomorrow morning but that will be dependent on if I able to walk by tomorrow morning or not!

Until next time, peace out!