Week 15 of 24
Total Km this Week = 54
Last week the family headed down to Kamloops for a week of camp. The girls were off to gymnastics camp and Kaleb got to go to the Kamloops Blazers Hockey Camp. One might think that there was lots of relaxing while the kids were away but it wasn't quite that! We were up at 6am every morning to get the kids fed, dressed and in the truck to have Kaleb at the rink for 7:15am. We spent an hour watching him then off to drop the girls at gymnastics camp for 8:30. After that it was either back to the campsite to tidy up and shower or off for a run. Then we headed off to run errands, have lunch and back to pick up the girls for 12:30. Immediately after picking up the girls we were back to the rink to watch Kaleb's afternoon ice session until 2:30. The rest of the afternoon consisted of swimming, biking or the water park before coming home to cook dinner, prepare lunches and get the kids to bed early enough that they weren't monsters when the alarm went off at 6am the next morning. We all had a great time but holy cow were we all really tired when Friday night came!
Saturday morning came with the realization that we had our bootcamp fundraiser! So my tired self and I headed to the park to take a beating from Sabrina. Thankfully she went a bit easy on Julie and I as we had our 29km run on Sunday morning to complete.
Sunday came way too early with the alarm going off at 4:30am and my butt and hips screaming YOU IDIOT WE'RE WAY TO SORE TO RUN! What were Julie & I thinking! One should never bootcamp the day before a long run!! However, I sucked it up and away we went. Just over three hours later my butt, hips, quads and knees refused to move. I prayed for two tall dark and handsome men to come and carry me away to a hot tub full of Epsom salts. However, as i got into the driveway I was pleasantly greeted by my three kids and handsome husband cheering hip, hip hooray, hip, hip, hooray!! My heart melted. Who could ask for anything more!
As proud as I was at completing my long run I was also very frustrated with an issue I have been having with my feet. Right now the thought of even going onto the balls of my feet and toes would be like having electric shock therapy . No really, I would be having electric shocks pulsating through my feet. I finally decided today to go to the doctors and get me feet looked at. For the past few weeks I have had burning, numbness, tingling and pain in both my feet. My left is worse than the right. The Doc told me that I have a condition in my feet called Morton's Neuroma. The nerves between the 2ND and 3rd toes in the balls of my feet have thickened. This has been creating the feeling that a rock is inside my shoe or that my sock is bunched up into a knot under the ball of my foot. Now try running on it for 29km!! Nerve pain is NOT fun. So what can I do about it? Icing and ibuprofen for now until I see the foot specialist on Monday. Hopefully there will be some relief soon. As many friends and family know I am not one to give up and I am incredibly stubborn. My training will continue as usual with just a little more meds along the way. Happy Running!
Monday, August 16, 2010
Monday, August 2, 2010
Dancing in my New Shoes
Week 13 of 24
Total km's this week: 50
What a great weekend! For many of you this past weekend was a long weekend, 3 days off for living it up. Well for our family it was a bit different. We were business as usual. Jamie was working and I was home with the kids. So what made the weekend so great you ask??? Well on Friday night I headed in to Kamloops to buy my third pair of running shoes, yes that's right my third pair. My feet decided to throw tantrums with the first two pair. Apparently in their old age they are becoming very particular about what goes on them. So with great caution I bought another pair. On Saturday morning I decided to take my shoes for a little test drive (i wish it was as easy as just driving them around). My test drive consisted of pounding the DREADMILL (yes that is spelled right) for one hour(10km) to see if my feet would choose to accept this pair or not. SUCCESS!!! I got through the run without incident.
I spent the remainder of the day focusing on hydrating myself for the 26km run that Julie and I were doing the next day. I will not lie, I am probably the most dehydrated person you will ever meet. Most days my my fluid consumption includes 2-3 cups of coffee in the morning and a glass of milk for dinner. I know it's really bad! The thought of drinking 8 glasses of water a day, leaving the house and the possibility of using a public toilet almost throws me into convulsions. If you haven't guessed, I have a HUGE phobia of public toilets. BLAH!!! However, I know the need to hydrate before a long run is the most important thing I can do. Forget the 8 glasses of water a day, I'm needing about 16 glasses with the distances we are running these days. So bottle after bottle of water I drank. I think I was hitting the washroom every 5 minutes towards the end of the day. THANK GOD I DIDN'T HAVE TO GO ANYWHERE!
Sunday morning came bright and early as Julie, my new shoes & I headed out for our long run. Our run took us down the highway towards Little Fort with a loop around the North Thompson Campground. There were some very long straight stretches that seemed to go on forever. 5km outside of Little Fort is where we finished. I will admit it was highly anti-climatic to finish in the middle of the highway with nothing around. However, Julie and I rocked the run and finished faster than last weeks long run. Yeah for improvement!!! Overall we felt great and I was so proud that I managed to drink a bottle and a half of water during the run. Those that know me know that I usually can't eat or drink anything before or during any runs, so that was a huge accomplishment in my quest to stay hydrated.
Thank goodness Julie has an amazing husband who came to pick us up. Home I went feeling no aggression from my feet, completely hydrated and happy. When I got home Jamie and the kids raced down stairs to give me a hip, hip hooray(god I love them). After some quick high fives off to the washroom I danced in my new shoes.
http://tinyurl.com/Christines-Run-of-All-Runs
Total km's this week: 50
What a great weekend! For many of you this past weekend was a long weekend, 3 days off for living it up. Well for our family it was a bit different. We were business as usual. Jamie was working and I was home with the kids. So what made the weekend so great you ask??? Well on Friday night I headed in to Kamloops to buy my third pair of running shoes, yes that's right my third pair. My feet decided to throw tantrums with the first two pair. Apparently in their old age they are becoming very particular about what goes on them. So with great caution I bought another pair. On Saturday morning I decided to take my shoes for a little test drive (i wish it was as easy as just driving them around). My test drive consisted of pounding the DREADMILL (yes that is spelled right) for one hour(10km) to see if my feet would choose to accept this pair or not. SUCCESS!!! I got through the run without incident.
I spent the remainder of the day focusing on hydrating myself for the 26km run that Julie and I were doing the next day. I will not lie, I am probably the most dehydrated person you will ever meet. Most days my my fluid consumption includes 2-3 cups of coffee in the morning and a glass of milk for dinner. I know it's really bad! The thought of drinking 8 glasses of water a day, leaving the house and the possibility of using a public toilet almost throws me into convulsions. If you haven't guessed, I have a HUGE phobia of public toilets. BLAH!!! However, I know the need to hydrate before a long run is the most important thing I can do. Forget the 8 glasses of water a day, I'm needing about 16 glasses with the distances we are running these days. So bottle after bottle of water I drank. I think I was hitting the washroom every 5 minutes towards the end of the day. THANK GOD I DIDN'T HAVE TO GO ANYWHERE!
Sunday morning came bright and early as Julie, my new shoes & I headed out for our long run. Our run took us down the highway towards Little Fort with a loop around the North Thompson Campground. There were some very long straight stretches that seemed to go on forever. 5km outside of Little Fort is where we finished. I will admit it was highly anti-climatic to finish in the middle of the highway with nothing around. However, Julie and I rocked the run and finished faster than last weeks long run. Yeah for improvement!!! Overall we felt great and I was so proud that I managed to drink a bottle and a half of water during the run. Those that know me know that I usually can't eat or drink anything before or during any runs, so that was a huge accomplishment in my quest to stay hydrated.
Thank goodness Julie has an amazing husband who came to pick us up. Home I went feeling no aggression from my feet, completely hydrated and happy. When I got home Jamie and the kids raced down stairs to give me a hip, hip hooray(god I love them). After some quick high fives off to the washroom I danced in my new shoes.
http://tinyurl.com/Christines-Run-of-All-Runs
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