Have a giant case of the druthers! Lots to do at work as semester nears the end YEAH! Am overtired. Ate some junk yesterday because had nothing stocked in my desk drawer and couldn't leave work at the time. So feel icky on top of druthers. Need to ride bike. Set it up on trainer Wed but went to play Pokeno at neighbors and was too whopped by the time I got son home from MMA last night. House is a total mess. Hub says this morning why don't we have e1 come to our house for turkey day .... ummmmmm noooooooooooooooooooooo cause I am the one who will have to do all the cleaning and I still have to work next M-W. Nope nuh uh aint gonna happen!
B: ~30 wheat thins, 1 banana, 2 cups coffee .... dont ask lol I don't know why other than I was tired, freezing and sitting on sofa wrapped in blanket chanting I dont wanna go to work today why cant I just go back to bed .......
I need sleep, exercise and homemade soup! TGIF!
Need to sign up for Turkey Trot 5k also. Was a lot of fun last year even though it was fuh-fuh-fuh-freezzzzzing!
The never ending project. I don't know how teachers find the time to teach! I am not kidding. They keep shoving more and more administrative type duties and committees , etc on us that last semester my classes suffered. So I made a pledge that it was not going to happen again this semester. So instead I just keep floundering adrift in this sea of paperwork and BS! Then I was told bya reputable source that at a meeting with one of the higher ups the comment was made that all lab instructors do is sit and watch and babysit students for 3 hours - that we don't "teach". OMG! I had a giant case of the red ass on that one!
I have had lab classes where you were handed a procedure and the instructor then perched on a stool and read a book the rest of the time but that IS SO NOT what I do.
Then they seem upset if you actually have to go to class. Ummm maybe these people forget that without the students there would be no bleeping school ... ummm HELLOOOOOO!
OK - that's my one allotted vent for the day...
Food has been good since mid-week last week yeah!
Foot update: Can't get in to see Ortho until Dec 4th *SIGH*. And have been very depressed and irritated since wasn't running that decided F it. Was gonna do whatever I could tolerate until that appt. Bought these elastic bands that fit snug over arch of feet. Supposed to help people with flat flipper feet like me or those with fallen arches. Been wearing them for about 4 days now and def seem to help. Also got new cushy insoles. So ran on TM Sunday and Monday. Sunday 45 minutes and yesterday 30 minutes. So far so good. Yesterday had a little swelling so iced as usual. It is a little swollen and irriated right now because I have been on feet since 7 am "Babysitting" all day. I won't slip back into rant ... I won't slip back into rant ... I won't slip back into rant ... I won't slip back into rant ...
Today is workout free day as I will be here til 9pm ACK!
Sunday I also did weights, lunges, squats, abs on BOSU ball and planks . I try to be quiet as possible when exercising but man oh man. When I do those planks 15s on and 15s off I get a tad loud . Oh well, Sunday only person I scared was son LOL.
OK Break from babysitting over (nah can't drop it lol) back to inventory then off to class at 6.
L: no lunch yet *sigh* Is 3pm. Hate 11am classes. Supossed to be over at 1:45 but lots of time stay way after to help students which I don't mind but then end up with hunger headache. Need to go by Wal-mart on way home which can often times contribute to headache category too .
Going to try walking/running on TM later and see how gimpy foot acts.
L: veggie veggie wrap on wheat tortilla, sm bag sun chips, 1 mango moxie smoothie
Sn: PB and pretzels
Su: homemade meatloaf stuffed with feta cheese, homemade mashed taters, steamed broccoli
Sn: 1 Yo Plus cherry yogurt
Went to get bone scan done. Of course the technician "can't" tell you anything or diagnose (most frustrating as some of them are probably mor adept at this than some doctors I know). But could definitely see a huge area of abnormality on top of right foot. Hope to find out today what it is!!! I tend to have problems with inflammation ... bursitis and calcified tendonitis in left shoulder, bursitis in right knee, inflammation of hip joints, etc. My 1st knuckle on ring finger is giving me trouble right now. Can't bend it all the way - really hurt and it is twice the size of normal. Same thing had happened to middle finger of right hand. So hoping its inflammation and they can give me a shot in my foot rather than stress fracture where I would have to stop running for several weeks.
Very tired this morning. Woke up with really bad headache. Prob cause had to take sleep apnea mask off halfway through night as sometimes it makes cartilage around nose inflamed and when it does it burns like it is on fire. So probably spent the rest of the night with interrupted sleep due to stopping breathing. SUCKS! Need to go by sleep apnea place and switch to dif type mask and get checked out.
Thank you to all the Bday well wishers!!! Was pretty good day. Taught early class then played hookey. Hub took day off so we went to see RocknRolla. Love that Gerard Butler but movie overall was just ok. Then went home and took big ol nap. My Dad said it sounded like one of his days referring to fact that I was getting old lol. Got a Garmin for my bday YIPPEE!!!
I was surprised cause thought it would be for Christmas. Am very excited to begin using it. Sure wish I could run right now but have to wait until I find out what is wrong with gimpy right foot. Have to go for bone scan this Wed as nothing showed up on Xray. Am hoping is not stress fracture. Hoping is something they can give me a shot for so I can get back to business. But unfortunately this has put a huge dent in my running training and not sure if I will be doing the BR Beach half marathon in Dec. GRRRRRRRR.
Had great time at IM Florida (Nov. 1)! My friend did awesome! She looked great entire race. Everytime we saw her she had grin and was going strong. We managed to make it to all the points on race where we could see her. One of which was while we were eating lunch at restaurant along course lol.
Drove down there that Friday. Wasn't bad drive til got tied up due to wreck right before Pensacola on I10. Asked TOMTOM to plot alternative course. Was told to get off highway and take right and the brilliant TOMTOM kept telling me to make U-turn and get on highway back the way I had come brilliant TOMTOM. Once past wreck about 45 minutes later had to get gas. Now TOMTOM got me to 3 separate gas stations. First one the store was open but not the pumps as they were doing construction. Next 2 stations had already closed for day. So went back and tried to get back on I10 but couldn't get back on since ramp was closed for construction *sigh*. So somehow TOMTOM managed to get me on the coast route which was a pain because went through all the little towns and had to deal with dif sped limits but at least I was going in right direction. But view from balcony next day made up for sucky drive down!!! Got up next morning at 4am to get ready to go down to race site. Friend Caroline was very nervous and pumped! At least with IM you turn in your bike and transition gear ahead of time so all she had to tote was 2 special needs bags you can get halfway through bike and run and her wetsuit and swim gear.
Mass swim start. Cool morning. Sun just coming up. Nice size crowd of friends and family gathered. And all you can see is churning water and elbows. Was amazing thing to see in person. They swam 2 loops on marked course. Some people were dead serious and totally focused and others were hamming it up to F&F as they crossed to do second loop. One guy put on a hot pink punk rock wig as he crossed I guess to make it easier for F&F to spot him. When he started swim again he stuffed it into wetsuit lol.
Went to watch Caroline as she entered T1 and got on bike. After she exited we went for a buffet of plastic breakfast "food" ackkkk. They back to condo for a bit. Me and Buckli were under orders from Caroline to make sure we did our scheduled 6 mile run. She said if she had to do whole IM we could do a piddly lil 6 mile run and that no matter how tired she was if we hadn't done it she would kick our butts when she got done with race ... and she would have too lol. So after a short rest we went out for run down Front Beach Road. We had measured in car and knew if we ran back to where the cops were for part of the bike course that was 4 miles. So we figured we would run there and halfway back then walk last lil bit. Was beautiful day if a bit chilly. Nice to be running somewhere different and could see glimpses of beautiful ocean between buildings. Run was ok to halfway mark. On way back got to see first cyclist returning to T2 and the time truck was right in front of him and he was just under 5 hours *HOLY COW*!!! A little after halfway foot started bothering me. At about 5 miles I was totally gimping. Look like Igor trying to run. But hurt worse to stop and walk so kept gimping for a bit longer. Buckli came back to check on me. We were both very thirsty and finally walked down road enough and saw a sandwich shop called "Fatty's" ... like I wanted to walk in there! But was only place we had seen so bought water and Cokes and by then was limping badly so Buckli called her hub to come get us. So I guess only ran about 5 - 5 1/2 miles and part of that was gimping along *sigh*.
Iced foot when got back then showered. Then back out to course to try to catch Caroline on bike. Found restaurant on bike course that had patio. So we sat outside in the sun and enjoyed great meal (I had grilled grouper sandwich and side salad YUM) and got to see Caroline and cheer for her as she flew past. She had huge grin on her face and looked great - didn't look tired at all.
After lunch we went back to condo to make posters for Caroline. That was a lot of fun! Here's a pic of the cheerleading gang with some of our posters. From left: me, Buckli (her hub taking pic), Meg and James.
We made it to catch Caroline as she was coming in to the halfway mark of run. They had to do 2 13 mile loops. So we got to watch her go back out to do second loop. At which point she came over to high five all of us and hollered and I quote "I got this b*tch!" LOL That was soooo Caroline. And she did have it.
Went to finish line to watch for her. Luckily through whole race we had my hub and a couple of other friends tracking her online so we knew about when to expect her to come through finish line. Was so much fun to watch the finishers. Got caught up people watching. Caroline came in just as strong as she had left out that morning. One of our tri group was volunteering at finish line as catcher and he got to "catch" her. What an awesome thing to watch and I bet an even more incredible thing to actually do! Will get to experience the half IM myself come April. May never do a full one but thats ok for me. It's all about the journey and the adventure and getting in shape and the people you meet and friends you make along the way.
On downside: Have really been struggling with food - particularly sweets. I think I ate at least half my bday cake myself. It was a huge lemon dauberge (sp?) cake. With tons of really sweet icing on it. Even threw some of it up which is a huge, huge, huge signal for me that I am out of control with my food. Not e1 will understand this - but those that have food issues will. Someone may comment to me to just put fork down and push away from table. Well, I know they don't have food issues. they don't know that sugar is my cocaine and that when I am not in a good place the food actually calls me on a physical level. The same physiological things are happening in my brain and body that happen with alcoholics and drug addicts. So its obvious to me that I need to talk about it and write about it. I am back up to 282.6. And don't want scale to keep going in that direction. Several things are contributing to this. One is that I feel like a failure with running to have to stop to assess foot injury. Another thing is I hate, hate, hate when the times change and days get so short. I thrive when there is sunshine. I really think I might should buy a S.A.D. lamp. I tend to have a really hard time maintaining or losing over winter months which thankfully isn't that long down here in Lousiana! I need to begin journaling my food again!!!
OK - this post is long enough. If you made it through to the end then you deserve a medal!!!
Going to Florida tomorrow to cheer friend on who is doing her first full Ironman. I am doing a half IM in April but hope, hope, hope to do a full one in the future!!! Once I learn to run LOL!
Supposed to run today so will have to cram it in sometime between running errands, washing clothes, packing, cleaning out car and going to son's football game. So looks like won't have much sleep until next week. Need to get more sleep it is really affecting my food plan as I eat like a starving animal when overtired. Hub has almost caught me in weight *sigh*! I really am so, so, so happy for him and just have to not let it get me down. He is doing it through controlling what he is eating as he doesn't have time with working so much to exercise. I wish I had that control. Maybe I will someday. I am running like a fool but on off days am scarfing down the empty calories. Been hanging in 270's foreverrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr! Need a good old fashioned kick in the rear!
Dug up this pic for friend. Is me practicing my leopard make up for Halloween a couple of years ago. I love dressing in costume!!!
Son has last football game this Thursday. If hub could make it, I would skip and go to running group workout because they are going to dress up in costume to do the run. Can't you just see about 40 - 50 people in costume out running the lakes at LSU??? I wanna gooooooooooooooooo!!! I love any excuse to dress up in costume!!! WAH!
Run last night was ok. No, I lied. It sucked. It was cold (mid-50's) ... that's freezing for down here!!! It is also enough to make my asthma kick in and it so much fun running when you can't bleeping breathe grrrrr! Add to that a hurting right foot and gimpy left knee and snot coming out of every hole in my body and am sure you can picture what I looked like ... it wasn't pretty!!! That 3 miles felt as bad as last week's 8 miles. Oh when ... Oh when ... will it get easier???
So will have to do Thursdays run either Wed or Thur by myself and without a costume WAH! Then this weekend am going to Florida to support friend who is doing the Ironman race. Supposed to do 9 mile run on Sat so will have to look up run course away from IM course to do on Sat. Another running group bud is going and she wants to skip it and even though I am sooooo not looking forward to doing the 9 miles, I am afraid to miss one.
My right foot is better this morning but both knees are twingeing. Every time I rolled over last night I would wake up cause of twingeing knees. I hope I find solution or help for them soon. It can sure wear you down!
Only bonus was I was so tired last night I actually slept more than usual but I still fell asleep on couch after took son to school this morning. And had the sleep paralysis thing going on which freaks me out every time. Its when you brain tries to wake up but your body is paralized - very scary!!! I kept sleep apnea mask on all night so not sure why had that. Really need to go back to see sleep apnea doc as don't think the machine is helping me like it should.
I am with Gwynn about the whole plateau thing. Although I have done some eating that didn't totally support my weight loss goals. I feel so stuck where I am on scale. I weigh sporadically as I used to be chained to the scale and my emotions went up and down right along with it so I had to make myself not weigh as often. And honestly with all the running I have been doing if my food was good I would have lost a good bit. A lot of it is I have been soooo soooo overtired and that is a huge trigger for me. When I am that tired all I want to do is eat and then sleep. And when weather starts getting cooler and it gets dark earlier I wanna be a bear and eat and then hibernate. I hate the time change. I hate when there is not enough daylight. I hate when you wake up and go to work its dark and when you get off to go home its dark!!! Am pretty sure I have SAD (seasonal affective disorder). I need one of these lights!
I need to make sure I can stay motivated this winter. Last winter I did the "bear thing" and gained 40 pounds back. i can't keep doing that! I need to find a way to keep up training and food plan over the winter!
Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew. Saint Francis de Sales (1567 - 1622)
I have decided instead of DOMS they should called DOMSMATSFH!!! Now if you can figure that out then you can join my Potty Mouth club :o) and then we can buy a case of the buttons below!
Got inserts for shoes yesterday. Used them for our 2.8 mile run. Didn't really notice much difference as right foot and shin splints were still aggravated from before. Plus wore wrong kind of socks. New inserts allow my socks to slip, slide around and I hate when you can't get any traction cause of slippery socks. Was just glad to get through the run!!!
Legs felt better this morning. I had soaked in epsom salts last night, took some antioxidant supplements and then lotioned up legs and used the "Big Stick" on them.
Felt soooooooooo good!
And they are much better this morning!!! Yeah!
Suppossed to have 3+ mile run Thurs and 8 ..... yes I said 8 mile run on Saturday. We are progressing in our runs and suppossed to be adding 1 mile a week on Saturdays but we were 1 behind because we repeated the 5 mile run twice because of Hurricane Gustav so we are skipping 7 miles and jumping ahead to 8. And as our run leader says it is the run that will help you decide whether to shoot for this half marathon in Dec or the next one in Feb.
Sucky thing is I already have to run by myself on Thursdays. Have open house at school this Sat so will have to do Sat run by self another time. Now don't get me wrong I am almost always last person in of the group but at least I know there are or were other people out on course "with" me. We are suppossed to be doing first part of half marathon course (6.5 miles) plus and additional 1.5 to = 8 miles. Bad thing is the course is out and about the LSU campus and Sat is game day and its an afternoon game. So will have to fight traffic, crowds and crazy people to go do run on Sat. Don't want to do it Sunday as have group run again on Monday. So trying to figure out what I am gonna do. May do Thurs run Wed and Sat run Friday morning. Ah will figure it out.
Food ok yesterday and today. Ate too many carbs over weekend ACKKKK. May me feel all icky and puffy and blahhhhh!!! But seem to keep banging head against same Carb Wall when I allow myself to get so overtired and then I get sick and more tired and .... vicious cycle continues.
Am giving midterms this week. Lots of sighing and squirming going on. Can be tortuously boring to watch people take tests but can be very amusing if you get someone who makes lots of weird faces when they are stressed lol.
Need to incorporate some other activities besides running. I was doing well then when the hurricanes hit, it throws everything off and causes stress for weeks. But can't use it as an excuse anymore. Need to squeeze in some swimming, cycling or spinning, strength training, etc. Will try to remember to post daily accounting of activity. Also need to remember to do heel walking daily as PT recommended.
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all day. I won't slip back into rant ... I won't slip back into rant ... I won't slip back into rant ... I won't slip back into rant ...
. Oh well, Sunday only person I scared was son LOL.
After she exited we went for a buffet of plastic breakfast "food" ackkkk. They back to condo for a bit. Me and Buckli were under orders from Caroline to make sure we did our scheduled 6 mile run. She said if she had to do whole IM we could do a piddly lil 6 mile run and that no matter how tired she was if we hadn't done it she would kick our butts when she got done with race ... and she would have too lol. So after a short rest we went out for run down Front Beach Road. We had measured in car and knew if we ran back to where the cops were for part of the bike course that was 4 miles. So we figured we would run there and halfway back then walk last lil bit. Was beautiful day if a bit chilly. Nice to be running somewhere different and could see glimpses of beautiful ocean between buildings. Run was ok to halfway mark. On way back got to see first cyclist returning to T2 and the time truck was right in front of him and he was just under 5 hours *HOLY COW*!!! A little after halfway foot started bothering me. At about 5 miles I was totally gimping. Look like Igor trying to run. But hurt worse to stop and walk so kept gimping for a bit longer. Buckli came back to check on me. We were both very thirsty and finally walked down road enough and saw a sandwich shop called "Fatty's" ... like I wanted to walk in there! But was only place we had seen so bought water and Cokes and by then was limping badly so Buckli called her hub to come get us. So I guess only ran about 5 - 5 1/2 miles and part of that was gimping along *sigh*. 
We made it to catch Caroline as she was coming in to the halfway mark of run. They had to do 2 13 mile loops. So we got to watch her go back out to do second loop. At which point she came over to high five all of us and hollered and I quote "I got this b*tch!" LOL That was soooo Caroline. And she did have it.
Felt soooooooooo good!
Better get to grading tests ...