I KNEW my body was telling me something...

Tuesday, May 06, 2008

So, I knew I needed those days off... but this sucks.

So I'm kind of sick.

My throat is really sore and I feel all weak and achy and just BLAH. It was kind of sore yesterday when I woke up, but I felt ok otherwise... then it just got worse and worse all day. Sometimes my stomach is feeling totally nauseous and awful, too, but my I only feel better when I'm actually eating. Swallowing food somehow makes my throat feel somewhat better, but when I'm eating I'm not enjoying it much either.

It's awful. WAH!

I was so geared up to have another great excercise week like last week and now this! *sigh* I HATE how I feel lazy when I don't workout, no matter what the circumstances are. I know rationally that working out today would have been stupid, but it still gets on my nerves.

I'm at work because we are somewhat shortstaffed and I know they would cover for me but I think I can hang in there today and I'd rather not make them have to bend over backwards for me if they don't have to.

My job mostly consists of sitting at a computer anyway. I just hope I don't have to talk too much today and I'll be fine.

I HATE BEING SICK IT'S SO FRUSTRATING!!!! *RRRARRR***

  

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LOBO1978_2000 5/7/2008 10:11AM

Hope you get better. Report Inappropriate Comment

LIVEYOURDREAMS 5/7/2008 12:52AM

I'm so sorry! Remember, it's just temporary, and try not to get down! Try some tea and honey for your throat! Take your vitamins! Report Inappropriate Comment

KELLZIE 5/6/2008 7:26PM

Ditto on the it sucks to be sick! You do have to take care of yourself. If you keep pushing you could just make yourself worse. You will get your momentum back. You are an amazing woman! Don't let being sick get you down. Report Inappropriate Comment

KIMCATUS 5/6/2008 3:02PM

Awwwww yucky!! Poor you! It so sucks to be sick, especially when you're on a great roll!! But slow down and take care of yourself...obviously your body is telling you something! So listen to it stubborn girl!!! Take care hon and get to feeling better soon!!! Report Inappropriate Comment

Days Off are important!

Monday, May 05, 2008

So my legs have been really sore, plus I did so awesome all week, I took Sunday and Today as off days. I am considering doing whatever the Sparkpeople swimsuit challenge thing is for today tonight (I haven't looked at it yet) since I joined that team and all... but this morning I had an important task that precluded gym-going and whatnot.

RENEWING MY DRIVER'S LICENSE! :D

I've been really excited to do this.

When I got my license last time, I had no idea how much I weighed but I knew it was more than the last time I was weighed at the dr's... so rather than estimate up from there... I just went with that weight. 220. YEAH. So LYING about my weight, it was 220. Of course since that time I went MUCH higher than 220, so I was walking around with a DL that was getting increasingly inaccurate -- in a bad way. Up to a 74lb difference.

Well, at some point last year I for the first time weighed LESS than my "lying" weight on my DL. :) It was a proud accomplishment.

And now by the time I went back to get it renewed, I was about 45lbs LESS than what it said.

So I very proudly said "175" (I'm not QUITE ready to change my ticker, but I'm close). :D I got a new picture snapped. (Not GREAT, but not too bad and isn't that really GOOD when it comes to Driver's Licenses???)

Anyway. That was a very cool thing. I will take a picture of my license when I get the real one. :D hahahaha.

P.S. -- I was just finishing tracking my excercise for last week and I actually exceeded my calorie burn goal by almost 100cal! :D

  

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CMM339 5/9/2008 4:11PM

I really think it's funny how some licenses have you put what your weight is and other's done. Mine doesn't have my weight on it but everybody triple checks the picture of me with me as it doesn't look much like me anymore. Report Inappropriate Comment

MARLIE13 5/7/2008 8:19PM

My license still says 174...and it was a lie for SUCH a long time! Now I think I need to make mine magically dissappear so I can get a new one and tell the truth. Congrats to you! Report Inappropriate Comment

CATIATM 5/6/2008 12:54PM

I'm so glad we don't have to say our weight on licenses here! I'd have to stop driving. I'd be too ashamed to tell them! Congrats on your calorie burn total! That's how it's done, baby! Comment edited on: 5/6/2008 12:53:27 PM Report Inappropriate Comment

LOBO1978_2000 5/6/2008 9:28AM

We all need rest days. Good job on being able to say you weight 175 at the DL place. You earned the opportunity to say that you do weight that much. Report Inappropriate Comment

AKASHA66 5/6/2008 2:52AM

Great job on the new DL weight numbers, what motivation, you can look at at whenever you take out your license! First time in a long time I didn't lie to the Dr about my weight in his office, gave him the real number, a good feeling. Report Inappropriate Comment

SMURFETTE0725 5/5/2008 9:32PM

You're a ROCK STAR!! CONGRATS!! xoxoxoxo Report Inappropriate Comment

BRUIN2 5/5/2008 9:14PM

Sit back, have some tea, and relish in this day. WOOHOOO! You'll be an Ironman yet. I can feel it. Report Inappropriate Comment

SHINYSILVRVOLVO 5/5/2008 6:50PM

Woohoo! That's a proud moment indeed! Report Inappropriate Comment

Update on the 5K... :)

Sunday, May 04, 2008

So, this morning I get up all super early for my 5K and it's storming!!! So I go and they are like, we're not cancelling unless there's a tornado warning, but we might start late. So we wait around...

Oh and I forgot to mention that I found out the course is downhill the first half and uphill the second half. OUCH!

ANYWAY -- we finally get started and I THINK I finished the first mile in under 10minutes!!! At the second mile mark I was at 20:50! :) That last mile was KILLER... uphill the whole way and simply torturous... BUT!

My final time was 33:30-something, and so I hit my goal of under 11min miles, AND improved my time from my last 5K by almost 3 minutes!!! WOOHOOO!!! :D I have yet to get my official time but I am very happy with that.

Also, there was a 1 mile fun run/walk and me and these two chicas I hung out with during the before and after times walked the mile after our run -- I think it really helped me to cool down.

Also, we went to Free Comic Book Day and they had an artist there from Cartoon Network who drew me an ADORABLE picture of Eduardo from Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends. He is a big purple monster looking guy who is very afraid sometimes... so I asked her to draw him scared and crying and he turned out SO PERFECT. Her name is Stephanie Gladden, FYI, and she ROCKS. I watched her draw several flawless looking picturs of Cartoon Network characters such as Lazlo, Dexter, Johnny Bravo, Mojojojo, and Bubbles. :) hehehe. It was AWESOME.

This other artist.. .Rick............ Thompson I think - drew my DH a picture of Plasticman hula hooping. It was very cool.

  

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CMM339 5/9/2008 4:10PM

Congrats on the 5K that's great. Doesn't it feel good to get back out there running again? Report Inappropriate Comment

LOBO1978_2000 5/5/2008 2:06PM

Good work on your 5 K run. Great accomplishment. Report Inappropriate Comment

KELLZIE 5/5/2008 12:05PM

Wow! Congrats! That is awesome! Report Inappropriate Comment

SMURFETTE0725 5/4/2008 7:07PM

YOU ARE PHENOMENAL!! What a wonderful improvement over your last 5k! CONGRATS! You must be on cloud 9! HUGS! Report Inappropriate Comment

SKYFYRE 5/4/2008 4:07PM

OK, Dana, your are definately a jockette! (Especially the part where you went the extra mile, hahahaha- get it, yuk yuk! That was awesome though!) You did great on that 5K, aren't you glad that you did that training run with the hill at the end now?!?! Glad the Comic book day was a great time! I had to take a nap after my brick workout yesterday and didn't do shred that night d/t the exhaustion, and look at you, you went to a convention! Report Inappropriate Comment

CATIATM 5/4/2008 2:31PM

for you!!!!! Report Inappropriate Comment

SHINYSILVRVOLVO 5/4/2008 2:21PM

Well done on the time! 3 minutes is a huge improvement! Report Inappropriate Comment

HOPERY 5/4/2008 7:08AM

Awesome time! Especially for a hilly course!!!! Keep it up!! What fun with the cartoonist! Report Inappropriate Comment

CAROL_HOORAH 5/4/2008 5:56AM

wow your time was amazing congratulations!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! wow wow wow!!!!!!!!! 3 minutes is such a huuuuuge difference, i'm so proud of you!!! I know what you mean about crappy runs, I've had one before that one, where I was just like - what is WRONG with my body today haha and I just didn't feel like it... I guess it's just like on some days going to the gym for weight lifting and you're just not feeling it, sometimes you can't push it! My training plan has me doing 3K today, so hopefully I'm going to blast that one! Report Inappropriate Comment

BRUIN2 5/4/2008 1:16AM

So glad your race wasn't cancelled! And look at that time!! Way to go!!! So what's next? An Ironman perhaps?? hehe. Report Inappropriate Comment

Doing Good. :)

Friday, May 02, 2008

Last night we did go to Iron Man at midnight -- and to be honest I drifted at a few different moments... BUT!!! It was AWESOME. I already know I want to have it when it comes out (DH agrees).

BUT, it was 3AM already byt the time I got to bed and so my mind was a little loopy when I set my alarm, and I didn't set it at the right time to allow me enough time at the gym. WAH. Also I forgot I need to pick up my race packet today!!!

SO. I had a dilemma -- I COULD just go get my race packet and take my time and just go to work....

BUT! What I CHOSE to do is go to the gym, got in at least 15 minutes of swimming (usually I go for 20-25 min in the pool, this time I got about 17-18 minutes in the pool so YAY not THAT much different), and I'm gonna pick up my race packet on my lunch break.

I needed to get in the pool again this week -- got those goals driving me. So I am very proud of that choice. Also, went back and tracked my calories for last night this morning -- didn't eat the most amazing stuff. Convenience food. BUT!!! I got a good balance yesterday (maybe a bit high on fat, but it was from the peanut butter and mixed nuts mostly), AND stayed under calories. YAY.

Also I realized I need to renew my DL!!! It expires on like... Tuesday. YEAH. So I've got to figure out what to do for that today.

SO! Today's plan is - get race packet, carb it up tonight, get plenty of sleep.

Tomorrow is - 5K and Free Comic Book Day! :D

  

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KIMCATUS 5/3/2008 3:06PM

Ahhh to be young and have so much energy! lol Great choices on the working out and good luck on your 5k today...go kick some butt!! :D Report Inappropriate Comment

MARLIE13 5/2/2008 1:47PM

Oh my, I think I would have drowned from being so tired. LOL! You rock! Report Inappropriate Comment

Cross Posted in Bun Buddy Brigade

Thursday, May 01, 2008

Someone asked about how to make a playlist for running that follows certain BPM for pace and I had to find all the sites I used when I did this back in the day -- I need to go through and do it again with some faster songs now that I'm faster. I'm not still using the old running playlist, but I bet there's songs that were too fast for me before that I can use now! :D Plus I have new music since then! Anyway, I wanted to get all this information in a blog so I could always find it again if I need to -- plus who knows, it might help some of you anyway! :D

Cool website to help with jogging to BPM :)

www.jogtunes.com/

Everyone is a little different so you can play with the BPM to fit your stride and pacing, but certain BPM (one beat per footfall) generally equals a certain pace.

This site: www.selfgrowth.com/articles/sundquist.html

Has a pretty useful chart for determining approximate MPH based on BPM.

COOL, eh?

And there are calculators you can use for figuring out the pace to music you already have, and you can edit that information in iTunes by right clicking on the song and editing the info. Then you can sort your music by BPM and make your own running playlists. I started doing this once, and really need to go back and finish. :D

This is the calculator tool I found online:
www.all8.com/tools/bpm.htm

You just tap to the song and it will show you an average BPM. :)

The jogtunes site has lots of songs listed with their BPMS already and links to download from iTunes and stuff like that. :)

  

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HOPERY 5/2/2008 3:49PM

Wow! This is cool! Right now, I run in silence (something I don't get much of) , but this might help mix things up and get me running at a faster pace. Thanks. Report Inappropriate Comment

CATIATM 5/2/2008 11:04AM

Thanks for sharing! Report Inappropriate Comment

BRUIN2 5/2/2008 12:47AM

This is soooooooo cool! (And gives me something to do at work tomorrow...hahaha, ok, maybe not tomorrow, but next week perhaps...hahah) Report Inappropriate Comment