Fast Running Mommy

The hamstring started hurting after 3 so I came inside and waited a bit and then went out for more....

All  6 of the siblings I grew up with were in Salt Lake today...it was fun to be together.  

Did all 5 today...felt pretty good. The hamstring feels like it has for the past month or so...just a little bit tight and irritated. Sasha says it could take up to three months to feel better and to just run slower but keep up the mileage...any other opinions?

My hamstring felt strong today...no tightness or irritation. I'm excited especially because my partner comes back tomorrow and I want to be ready for her and not slow her down. She gets knee problems and actually needs to go faster for it...being airborne helps. Thanks to everyone for your sympathy. 

yay...Amanda came home and still wants to run with me. I was worried with all the free time she had she'd have a chance to think over the benefits of sleeping in and getting fat and lazy and would decide running around the block with me at 6 a.m in the freezing winter weather wasn't such a good idea.  We went our normal brisk sub 10:00 pace and it felt super. 

My roommate from college and lifetime friend has been running. She looks beautiful. She has been getting up at 5:00 and running on a treadmill...now that's dedication...what a woman.  

I don't know if we ran exactly 5 but we should get a few bonus miles for the weather today. ....sticky icky snow. I don't mind sticky icky snow except when I forget to bring something to hold my hair back with...so icky sticky snow mixed with stringy hair slapping my frozen face....it was probably the most miserable run I've ever been on...thank goodness I had a friend to share my misery. 

I need to get Sasha to change slow miles to something like target training pace miles or something more positive. It's depressing to look over my blog and see a long record of all the slow miles I've run. They are just about right miles for me....although slow. Oh well...time with my  husband or perfect wording...hmmmm

Amanda had a test so I ran 3 miles by myself in the a.m and 1.5 with the girls in the p.m

My alarm didn't go off so I slept in and left my partner high and dry..so sorry. I did 2 in the morning before Sasha went to the temple. It took us an hour to get there and back...bad bad snow. Then I ran 2 at night home from the track where I couldn't run because Sasha thought we couldn't bring the stroller in even though I knew we could. 

Wow...great run today...we got talking and went extra....gotta  go feed my neighbors fish...

ran by myself...felt good to get out on the trail.

We had a good run today...nice conversation. I am looking forward to spring though....

Good run. We got to go out of the trail a bit today. Talked about bits and pieces of stuff from life...dentists, bishops, husbands, kids...mostly kids...in-laws....house cleaning...personality types. So fun to have a good talk while you run. 

Yesterday I camped out almost all day (in between real life of cleaning and cooking...which I did my duty towards) and read. Have any of you tried read the series by Laura Ingalls Wilder. I know it's for children but I have loved reading it as an adult too. I see it from a different perspective as I watch the struggles the family went through. In the book at least the parents are firm but very kind and loving. I think it is a good model of parenting. They expect obedience from the children but when they girls disappoint them they don't have a temper tantrum about it or punish them too harshly. They express their disappointment and punish accordingly.

I remember hearing in a conference talk recently that if we really remembered what it was like to be a child we wouldn't be too harsh or too lenient with our children. I struggle every day to maintain this balance and hope my  kids turn out just right.  

We ran the 5 in 49 something today...just about right. I like breaking 50 minutes. That's about what my body can handle but it doesn't seem too slow. 

I am working on a texture quilt...crumpy on the blog gave me the idea. It's usually for babies. But I needed a new comforter on my bed so I decided to make myself one. It's going to be so cool. I have almost 80 different types of fabric on it. Crazy thing is that I am having so much fun doing it that I keep dreaming about it..going to the fabric store picking out fabric...etc. Then my little Julia wakes up this morning and tells me that she dreamt about my quilt too. I'll have to call it the dream quilt.

Anyone still reading...I like to make up stories for my kids. I've made up a whole series based on trees that talk and kids that travel the world hearing the stories the trees tell.

Started out that I wanted it to be purely educational...teaching them values, geography.

Unfortunately(or maybe not) it's turned into a wonderland of creativity where we explore worlds that don't exist....Yesterday's story was  Queen Rainbow. Cheesy story but my kids...and even Sasha ate it up. It's about a place where a king has lost his wife and decrees that everything must be frozen all winter long...even the people and the trees....he wants no color at all. The heroes of the story sing him a rainbow song...(without knowing his wife's name) and it reminds him of his wife...Queen Rainbow...of course it ends happily ever after where his cold heart melts and color is allowed back in his kingdom.

My kids are probably learning to be silly and make up dumb stories from things like this but maybe they are also picking up things about plot and general story themes.

Okay..i'm done. :) 

Another brisk day of running...we got to go on the trail for the first three miles so that was fun.  49:30

The funniest thing happened yesterday. We saw these stripes of light all over the sky. We thought it was some kind of natural effect like Northern lights in Utah...it was beautiful. We told Ted about it (Sasha was busy with a jump start) and he laughed at us...it was just those flood lights that rotate resting but still on all over the city....it did look cool.  

I can already tell that my body is in withdrawal...I wanted to run all 5 again at sub  10 pace but...oh....the pain...my  hamstring was acting up again. Problem is, my running partner needs to run a brisk pace to help the pain in her knee and she just is a spunky girl and does well with a faster pace. If I run slower I feel so relaxed and happy and it also helps my hamstring. Sigh....gotta find a balance....

See all of you tonight...can't wait.

Traveling with kids and with my leg still being sore decided to rest completely today. 

St. George was great. We'll get the team picture posted on Monday. 

did a slooooow five on a few inches of snow this morning. It was not as cold but it was hard going in that slush....wishing so bad for spring especially after a wonderful trip to St. George. Thanks again to Steve and Kendra for their hospitality and lovely party.  

I'm going to add another one this afternoon with Juila...they are always so excited to run with me. 

Well, I told Sasha he couldn't write about the funny thing I did yesterday...I didn't say I couldn't write about it.

We ordered our oats for our food storage in bulk and picked them up yesterday(that's a whole other story) We usually fill 11 5 gallon buckets with our year's supply of oats.

I guess I miscalculated because the 400 pounds I thought our family needed for a year filled over 21 buckets (we still have one opened bag). Those were all the buckets we had for all of the food we store. (popcorn, lentils, beans, wheat, rice...etc)

It is one of our favorite times together as a family when we open up those big bags of oats and scoop them into buckets. Even little Joseph could help and cried when we ran out of buckets!! We had fun following the prophet yesterday....

One take on food storage that my sister has is that if she has more than she needs she will take that opportunity to share with neighbors that do not have any food stored in an emergency...so...anybody need oatmeal, granola or any other form of oats...we gotcha covered.  

Felt okay today...don't remember the time...hamstring a bit tender with a faster pace. A friend is going to look at it and give me some ideas of how to not get injured worse...will hope for the best. 

leg still bugging..very very cold

Jossee came and scraped my legs today...hopefully I'll get better about remembering to ice my legs after my runs. I really missed not having a partner today. I can run in the dark, I can run alone, I can run in circles around my house...but I can't run in the dark, cold, alone and fifteen times around my house without feeling a little down. 

Ran slow by myself on the trail today. 

 I was kind of scared to go out in the dark by myself. I've gotten so used to having a partner. So near the end of my run when I saw a large group of people ahead of me and the mouth of the trail I kind of panicked and wondered if it was a group of teenagers looking for trouble...what a laugh when I passed by a group of adult runners stopping to chat before they went for a run together. Wished I'd had some of them earlier on my run.  

Well..so much for my leisurely 11 minute mile pace...Amanda loves to go sub 10 and will unless I whine to go slower....so we did 4.96 in 47:36....I'm tired. I think I must just be older than her...that's it. Whine whine. 

Sasha is in the doghouse. I went for an evening run and the kids were not in bed when I got back. All you other men know that is against the law of the wife right....kids fed, in bed, house clean before Mom gets back. oh well..at least I got my run in.

Amanda and I have been running at night because her husband is out of town. We have been speeding this week ...today we were doing close to 9 minute mile pace...I'm tired. I can't blabber as much as I like at that pace...I get winded. 

But it feels good to work hard and hope for good rewards to come...my leg is feeling slightly better....better go ice it though.  

tired...ran with Sasha around the block....he tried to be entertaining and ran slow with me....nice guy