Running Again

So it's been two weeks since my gallbladder was taken out and I am dying to run, I envy everyone who I see running by me, I long to put on my shoes and run outside it will be raining way to soon and my time for outside runs are coming to an end.

I have been cleared to walk all I want but it's just not enough I know I need to be fully healed before I really am able to run but I tried today my goal was to run a lap on the track and walk two laps. I made a total of three laps if running and was in some pain so back to walking for me. 

Recovery is a long road but I'll be ready at least more ready than last year for the goofy. 

Recovery time

How am I going to make sure I am getting my mileage in when I had my gallbladder remove almost two weeks ago? I was suppose to have done 15 miles this weekend well that didn't happen. I'm trying not to beat myself up over my mileage because my body isn't ready to run yet let alone do 15 miles I did 5.5 on Friday and had to break it up my insides hurt and it was painful. 

My goal for dopey is to beat my time I did last year for the goofy. But not being able to run for a month is killing me and it isn't even two weeks out from surgery. I am able to walk so i do but it's not a lot. Patient is what I need I don't want to hurt myself more and not be able to run at all. So slow going it will be and I'll see how I do at for the 10 mile monster dash in three weeks. 

My love and hate relationship with my treadmill

I had to get my 30 to 45 minutes in of running today I knew that if I left it to later tonight I wouldn't get to done so I move our chair out of the way for me to use the treadmill, now I know there are some who love running on the treadmill and than there are others who hate it just as much as I do. We got a couple of years back and I do love having it the house my kids run o. It more than I do but I just hate who I run while on it, my 30 minutes seems to take Forever and it's never ending. We have even put a small flat screen on the wall so we can watch tv while running but nothing works. 

I won't mind it has much but we live in Washington state where it really does rain most of year and I don't like running all that much in the rain.

It was nice to get my training done right away but it took its sweet time.

But my goal for the dopey is to have a good time and not die from being in pain so far I have stayed on my training course.

Training

So once again we are training for the Walt Disney World marathon weekend last year we did the Goofy challenge and this year it's the Dopey I can't wait, yes it means running a lot and making time for it but I love that we have made it a family affair, we are using the Jeff Galloway method and following that plan. We ran our 9 miles this past weekend with our kids in the stroller it's not the best but it gets them out and I get to share my love for running, once school starts I will have more time to run. 

A New Goal

So now that I have my BIG race behind me I am looking for a new running goal and that goal for me it to actually RUN the a whole 5k yes I have done many 5k's but I have never actually ran the whole way. I get tried or I run way to fast in the beginning and burn myself out at the end, we have a 5k on the 9th and that is my lets see how far I can go race.
I am planning on running the whole thing and I am training for a half right now, I do have a half in mind I would love to do the Disneyland half but I just don't know if we will be able to go yet which is why we have not signed up in a charity group yet I know we need to decide about it and than just sign up but I just don't know if we can yet.
Once I get my 5k goal finished I want to become a faster runner, I know that I need to to lose some more weight which adding more miles and watching what I eat will help out with the weight loss. Another goal I am going for is teaching my three boys how to be healthier and how to live a healthier life, right now they like to get on the treadmill and run once I am done, they go for about 5 to 10 minutes with many stops to get water or just slow down. Even my little 3 year old loves getting on the treadmill and walking (of course I don't allow him to be on the treadmill without me next to him) but I love how he wants to follow in my footsteps of running.

Goofy 2013

The past 8 months I should have been training more for my race, I knew the half would be no problem but the full was another story. Yes life does happen and when you are being both mom and dad you tired and it seems as if you have no time anything yet alone yourself. I needed to be running back to back a short run and a long one. Well I got in my shorter runs that is for sure but for me to find the time and someone to watch my boys was another story.
Needless to say I did not train much for the full, I was scared out of my mind what was I doing and why in the world did we sign up for a Goofy I was happy with either running the half or the full but  to do them tohours apart well is just plain Goofy. I did great for me on the half I did not PR and I'm ok with it, the weather was very hot and I don't sweat very well so I was taking it easy and didn't want to burn out for my full.
As we ran together I knew my husband was wanted to go faster and could go faster than me, so by mile 3 I told him to just go and meet me at the end. Around mile 6 I was wished I haven't told him to go and that he would of just stayed with me, I found some other runners to talk with and at the end I found a Navy guy to run with. He was easy for me to talk to since my husband is in the Navy and we had things to talk about besides running, thankful he got me talking and we finished the half.
The full is another story for two miles into the 26.2 I was done my ankles hurt I wasn't feeling it at all and I wanted to just quit, my wonderful husband won't let me he stayed with me whole time. We found a pacer and stayed with her until mile 15, which is when my body was saying I'm done there is no way for me to run. My IT band on my left side kicked in and well we all know it's super painful to run. So we walked and I believe we ran a mile or 2, but we finished.
I swore up and down I wouldn't do another Goofy and how much I was in pain, but once we got on the bus I took that all back and I am wanted to do the Goofy again I am thinking in 2 years. But I will make sure I am more trained and I will be ready.
It was a great experience and I am so glad I had my husband by my side as we ran, yes it's hard on your body but if I can do it anyone can.

My First Half Marathron!

I can't believe I finish my first half, I ran the Women Rock on Saturday, I have been training my now smaller butt for this race, and to my surprise I did great, I was not the fastest or the slowest I did my best I made my goal which was to run it until 3 hours and I finished it in 2:48. I started the race with my sister she was running her first marathron and I stayed with her for the first 2 miles and than dropped back I notice I have been starting my races out way to fast and wanted to make sure I would finish and not hurt myself. I did stay in the 11:30 minute mile pace group for most of the race and than had to Pee well that was a challenge in its self with my running belt skirt and making sure it was all in place to start running again. But with it all said and done I was than with the 12:30 minute mile pace group I was doing my best to get a head of them but at the end they finished before me and I wasn't able to keep up not because I was tired but because my IT band kicked in. 
I do believe I would have finished it sooner but my IT band kicked in for the first time at mile 11 and well that was it for my running the last two miles, I walked and ran just a little bit, but to my family cheering me on and have my wonderful husband running the last bit on the side as I finished was the best.
I than headed over to the medical tent and got some ice and pain meds and was all good to go, I found that I did not sweat as much as I should of, not sure why this is very new to me and I have to do some looking into of why and what I should do for my next race.
We stayed to watch my sister finish and see her at the end of it all we both finished and are now taking this week off to than start next week training for the Goofy in January, I do have to say that I am a little concerned with that race I was pretty sore after this half and not sure how I would be able to run a half and than the next day run a full but that is what my training is for and I will do it!