one week. two weeks.

one week

it's been one week since i have run. i am a pretty patient person - but waiting day by day for my leg to get better has been totally miserable and anxiety ridden.

i can totally feel the effects on not running. mostly physical - feeling like a blob/lethargic and not sleeping well. when i run i just get better night sleeps. i think i am so anxious about this whole thing -keeps me up at night in worry. i worry about - can i run the half? if i do run will it get re-injured? is this a long term thing? all that has been running through my head and most likely it isn't that bad...

but overall i just miss running. i was at the gym doing other workouts and i almost cried because i couldn't run on the treadmill. and i hate the treadmill. this is what it must like to be going thru drug withdrawal. just need a little fix.

but i have asked every doc i work with about my leg and they seem to think it is a muscular thing and not a ligament tear - or anything super serious. just has to heal up.


two weeks

pretty sure i can feel my leg getting better. i have done no physical activity whatsoever, taking meds around the clock, using heating pads and supplements 3 times a day. the supplements prob wont do much- but if has any placebo effect- i'll take that too.

if i can get back to running by next weekend i think ill be ok. not concerned about losing any endurance. just need to get back into it with 2-3 short runs before the big one.

just keep those fingers crossed.

two weeks to go.

worse break up ever

so my knee hurts. i gotta limp. i think now it's runners knee. seems common enough. but i don't know if 3 weeks is enough time to heal...... for now

• i am trying to stay off of it as much as i can (i'm on my feet at work a lot of the day, and i live on the 3rd floor with no elelvator.. awesome.)
• icing and elevating it
• working out muscles that will support my knee better
• whining like a big ass baby
  

i'm so used to being able to be proactive and fix things.. now i just gotta sit and wait and that will be tough for me to do

i feel like this:

call me 10Katie and brrrrrrrrrrr

holy cow. this is what i woke up to getting ready this AMs 10k race:


i wasn't even sure if i was going to run, but since it was near my house i decided to check it out. when i got there there was a good amount of folks there. so what the hell.

within 10 minutes of getting there i knew i would be running a very long 6 miles. it was. my feet were soaked, my hands were frozen, but eventually i just went numb. there were about 50 people running and about half that in volunteers cheering us on which really helped.

there were a few people that were running ahead of me that i targeted as my 'people i am going to pass.' and i totally did. (booya)

i also had ipod issues, so i have two different runs recorded. the first half i ran 3.48 with a 9.29 mi and the second half ran 3.14 mi on with a pace of 8'59"/mi .... i think i finished around 1:10 or so... my slowest time for sure.. but i couldn't feel my hands (must by running gloves!) , wet cold shoes/feet. wow.


my hands were so numb - that i had to ask someone to unzip the pocket on my pants to get my key out. most of my fingers were non functioning.... i sat in the car for ten minutes to warm my hands up before driving home. ..... i now know what is like to to not have non-opposable thumbs.

overall i'm glad i did it. a good challenge and i got that damn pancake.

next weekend i will have one more long run and then the tapering will begin..... 22 days to go!

cold run = warm pancakes

this week i have been taking it easy.

i did an almost 11 mile run last week and it seems that i did not stretch enough afterward. my ITB band --mostly on my knew ---has been bugging me so i have been resting up, downing the anti-inflammatory meds, and stretching.

along with a slight injury it has gotten super cold here (50s in the AM) .... so the runs have been a little challenging... i did nice and easy runs on monday and wednesday and completely covered my face in my anti-chafing gel so i my face wouldn't get entirely chapped.

but i have a 10k tomorrow am. i think i will be much better. but now the temp is supposed to start to DROP tonight and will be in the low 50s and raining when we are scheduled to start. awesome.

but they are going to have miami dolphin players at the race..... and my biggest motivator, free pancakes made by some top chef contestant. mmmmm pancakes!





23 days till 13.1 . . . .

turkey trot results

these are the results from our turkey trot on thanksgiving! FEMALES AGE GROUP: 25 TO 29
24	157	Kara	Mathias	F	25	0:43:51
63	50	Michele	Hughes	F	28	0:49:54
72	257	Laura	Quintana	F	27	0:50:29
73	22	Andrea	Craine	F	27	0:50:30
76	85	Erica	Oheam	F	26	0:51:03
86	144	Jessica	Wesley	F	26	0:52:17
87	149	Han	Xu	F	29	0:52:18
93	249	Jamie	Baker	F	27	0:52:43
108	173	Hilary	Guy	F	27	0:53:43
111	186	Julie	McLaughlin	F	25	0:53:52
127	131	Kimberly	Taggart	F	27	0:55:37
142	378	Kelly	Sleeper	F	26	0:57:19
145	232	Danielle	Whittaker	F	27	0:57:31
165	237	Sally	Lanigan	F	26	0:59:28
167	228	Allison	Fischman	F	25	0:59:30
171	233	Kari	Floyd	F	25	0:59:48
175	153	Karla	Portocarrero	F	28	1:00:08
176	271	Cynthia	Gordon	F	26	1:00:11
183	120	Susie	Singer	F	28	1:00:48
193	108	Rebekah	Rodgers	F	26	1:02:03
217	23	Jessica	Darnell	F	29	1:04:21
227	125	Katie	Stephens	F	27	1:06:07
239	260	Hillary	Bess	F	25	1:08:33
242	99	Emily	Pickle	F	28	1:09:12
253	215	Kristy	Maculan	F	25	1:10:31
258	38	Margaret	Gaston	F	28	1:10:47
274	373	Michelle	Kremer	F	26	1:12:48
280	112	Erin	Rowland	F	25	1:14:39
284	111	Mindy	Rohrbacher	F	29	1:15:40
285	279	Andrea	Hayes	F	26	1:16:07
294	67	Stephanie	Mammino	F	27	1:18:28
304	252	Katelin	luddy	F	25	1:23:41
306	179	Amanda	Watson	F	29	1:24:51
312	286	Elizabeth	Worley	F	27	1:26:44
314	46	Jeanne	Hollomb	F	26	1:27:07
315	268	Kenzie	Latham	F	26	1:27:17

cotton and caffeine

cotton

on the last leg of my 10+ mile run, i had a nice pit stop while the bridge was up.

now i know what all the looks were about.















that's why they say cotton is rotten.



caffeine

tried this gu flavor today. it was GOOD. and not only does it have caffeine but 2x caffeine!