Fast Running Mommy

ran 12min pace..yay...typing one handed again

Well..I did it..first time for 2 miles. I could have of course done it the day after I had the baby except that I'm no dummy and give my uterus plenty of time to heal. It felt sooo good. My legs were not sore. That is one part about running pregnant that I won't miss....no more feeling like my legs are going to fall apart every time I step on them. I think I maintained a good pace again today. Hard to say because I didn't take the Garmin but I know the feel of 20 minute pace versus 12 and it was on the 12 end again. I'm so grateful to be able to move again. I did feel a  bit tired but pushed through it. I'm sleepy now and may take a catnap before facing the rest of the day.

(for instance..i'm rocking William in the bouncy seat as I type and his brother accidently dropped a book on his face...luckily it was a paperback...sigh....) 

I need to vent here a little. My run went terribly. I was so tired. And then to make matters worse I was EXHAUSTED the rest of the day. I didn't have a chance to rest until the afternoon. sigh....

I really want to get back to running at least 12 min mile pace but I just can't yet. I tried to this week and it wore me out...back to 16 or slower until my muscles are ready. I think until I'm sleeping better my body just can't run very well. Oh well...I'm happy ..I've got my baby and my kids and life is good. 

I'm so tired. I just think I need to make it through these next couple of weeks and I'll be okay...I don't know. I'm kind of confused what to do now because I want to run so I can find that balance of health that I need but I don't know how far and how slow I need to go to get enough but not exhaust myself. I may have to try going back to a mile a day until I'm able to sleep more. I don't have time to take long naps so if I can't get the sleep at night than I'm pretty much just going to be tired.  It was easy when I was pregnant. When I was feeling tired I ran slower. When I was feeling really tired I started cutting down the miles slowly. Now working back up is much trickier. 

William had to nurse from 7 to 10 straight last night...When he sounded like he was going to wake up again around 11 I grabbed my blankies and headed to the guest room downstairs. Sasha promised to take care of things and get me when he was tired.

Well...this morning my 6 year old Julia tells me that William woke her up this morning (around 4) and she had to wake her Daddy up because he was sleeping through it.

Great...so much for my  husband baby monitor.

I felt okay on the run. Still going slow. I try to start out at about 12 minute mile pace and then slow down when I get tired. I picked the pace back up at the end and felt like I could keep going. That is a very important feeling because I do need to keep going when I get inside.

William is going to be blessed tomorrow. I'm so excited to put him in his overalls and little white shirt from Kelli and take pictures. Of course I'm also excited to welcome him into the world with a name and blessing from the holy priesthood that his Daddy holds.
 

I had a great run today. 12 minute mile pace finally felt EASY like it used to. That was miraculous for me. I was beginning to wonder if it would ever feel easy again and if I would recover okay on the sleep I've been getting. 

William was blessed yesterday. It was the most beautiful blessing I've ever heard and really it wasn't because it was my own child. The sister teaching Sunday School said at the beginning of class that she still needed to compose herself. She had wept during the blessing and the strange thing is that she said she has never cried at any blessing except that of her own children. She is in her 60's and has been to many.

It makes me wonder what special child I have been chosen to raise...it changed my perspective on my mothering and made me feel the responsibility I have to make sure these children leave my home as spiritual as they came to me.  

12:30 pace..nice and easy. yay...I'm still so glad that that pace is easy again. 

i had a rough day yesterday...really tired. Guess my body is still recovering..go figure...I think I was having digestive problems. Sasha says when I feel that way I should come and kiss him and I'll feel better. :) 

So I had this crazy thought last night. If 12:30 pace felt easy then maybe I could go faster...hmmm....didn't know if it would work. 

I started out brisk today and was going 10:40 pace for the first mile!! Slowed down a bit but ended up with overall time of 11:12 per mile. Wow!! Thanks for healing body...it will be nice to stay at that pace for a few months until I get my miles up again. Not sure what my goal should be but I'm grateful for little miracles.

Sasha and I have been laughing all day yesterday and today about his magic lips.( read yesterdays blog and comments) He ended up running alone with a lady this morning...definitely  not my favorite thing and I made sure he didn't tell her about his magic lips. No...he was innocent and she is bringing a friend tomorrow.  

Pushed too hard yesterday I guess and was tuckered out today. I can't overtire myself because I have post pardom symptoms if I overwork and make myself nutso. Let's keep Mama sane today I say.

A heroin and meth addict around the corner overdosed yesterday and passed away.

The only problem is that this particular addict was my friend.

Her name was Sarah.

She gave birth to a beautiful baby girl that she and her boyfriend adored...only four days after William was born.

We prayed for her and her boyfriend every night.

We hoped we could make a difference in her life.

I'm still praying that we did.
 

i've only actually run 1 but I'm blogging now because things are mostly quiet. 

Has anyone seen the doghouse commercial from JCPenny? My friend told me about it but I have a dumb computer and can't load things like that. She said there were a bunch of guys in trouble with their wives for bad presents like an exercise bike...I might like that but I guess it's not romantic. Sasha said he'd get me a jungle gym for my birthday?!? That was supposed to be for the kids. I wanted pretty serving dishes...I guess I'll have to do my own shopping this year. Anwyay...who buys a swingset in December?

Nice and easy....leg hurting a little

My birthday is tomorrow...sooooo. if anyone wants to wish me a happy birthday....they can....I'll be thirty something for another 7 years after this birthday....I loved turning 30 but 33....that's just the beginning of a long confusing decade of babies and talent shows, homework and ballet class, dinners and breakfasts and all the laundry and dishes in between....do you think I'll remember how old I am in the midst of all of that? I doubt it..

Snow...for my birthday. When I was a little girl in Dallas I wished and wished one birthday that there would be snow(it only snowed once a year there...sometimes not at all)

My wish came true. I guess that wishing carried over for this one. This is the first heavy snow of the year and my kids are going to be so excited.

I already received a wonderful present...my baby slept all night and I got to sleep in my bed all night for the first time in a long time. I was able to get up early and run before Sasha even went at 7...wow!!

Have a great day everyone!! 

I'm feeling pretty good today. Nice easy two miles at 12 min mile pace. 

I got so mad at Sasha this morning...well..not really but I did give him a mini-lecture...he woke up the entire house before I got to go out on my run with his LOUD voice.

He has a very loud voice to go along with his loud and interesting personality...gotta love him..I'm not really mad because he has been so sweet and helpful lately but I wouldn't mind if he learned volume control.

Can I just say that I love my Billy Bubbles so much!! He is such a good baby. He is sleeping well at night and I really enjoy taking care of him...which is why I wanted another baby..I really love little babies and just love trying to figure out how to make it all work. Things are going well most of the time...When I struggle I just try and be patient and not freak out. :)

I got some really fancy smancy running pants from Nordic Track for one of Sasha's prizes. Problem is that I don't really care for the fabric they are made of. I guess some people like this fabric because they make pants out of it. Does anyone in the area want the pants? They are size medium and veeeery fancy running pants. ;)  

2 good miles in fresh fallen snow....with deadly black ice underneath...Imissing my old running partner Amanda..that lady was at my house everyday in the black of the early morning running in heck frozen over...well I guess we were running in happy valley frozen over...anyway...she was there and I miss her. :(

I'm getting excited for Christmas. I think I love being a mom at Christmas more than a kid...I have oodles of presents to be excited about giving. This year our children did slave labor for me for about a month and earned money to buy eachother presents. I'm excited to see how happy they will be to give eachother presents. I think it will bond us and them together more to have them grateful towards eachother for nice things and grateful for the experience of sacrificing and being generous. They are such good little kiddies...I'm choked up thinking about my older ones growing up. I think that's part of the reason I want more. 10 is the official number I've always wanted but just about everybody I know thinks..okay not everybody but my husband and my mom (how many more opinions really matter in life anyway?) ...anyway to continue this run-on...just about everybody I know thinks I might as well go for 12. My mom's exact words were, "Would you deny me the right to say that I have a daughter with 12 children." She was kind of joking and being silly but at the same time....I'll take it as a compliment that two very important people in my life who know my weaknesses are confident that I could handle as many kids as I want. 

William is a doll..He has been sleeping all night and lots during the day too. His dimple is darling...the bubbles that he blows with his sweet little mouth are adorable and we just love him more and more each day.  

Sasha took us for an adventure yesterday. We left the house in the middle of a terrible storm...thank goodness we kept our 4 wheel drive van. We headed for Jolley Ranch in Springville and spent twice as long getting there on terrible roads. Once there the gates were closed ..argh..and we had to haul six children, four sleds, one on skiis and a baby carseat with snoozing dreamer inside through a gate bordered by icy river death up a hill and to the sledding area almost 1/4 mile away. I was tough but I have to admit I did yell at my kids for the first time in a long time...I was so scared someone would run off suddenly and slip into the river. Joseph..my wise almost 4 year old observed that they would have to get close to the river to fall in. Later he also said a hilarious thing ....I was still stressed out during the sledding (mostly because I was planning on having the car parked 10 feet away in the parking lot like we normally would when the gates were open..by the way...they were supposed to be open and we had just paid Springville city 200 dollars that morning for the privilege of walking a 1/4 a mile with babies and sleds)  so...I was still stressed and when Joseph asked for help I declined. Then in his mostly still baby voice he said with perfect wisdom and clarity, "Mommy, I am your child. " Cute..true and to the point. I helped him haul his sled up the hill after helping the 2 year old Jacob and checking on sleeping baby a few feet away under the pavillion. phew...I slept in today. :)
 

I'm pre-blogging today. I am going to run with a lady in our ward that also had a baby recently...less recently than me but she's not in shape yet so she won't be tempted to run me into the ground. 

Well..it looks like I may have a new running partner. Felicia is in my ward and lives around the corner. She has 3 kids and just had a baby 5 months ago so we have similar situations..I just happen to have 3 more kids. But the older ones don't count right...because they are helpful mostly. :)

I've talked her into going out into the frozen tundra of Provo at 6:30 every day for me..we'll see if she lasts.

They didn't plow the trail yesterday...stinkers..so we ran on the roads. Got a little bit of uphill  in and averaged 12:30 ish pace which was fast on those roads.

I am so stinky today because I skipped my shower yesterday...laundry day...no clothes to change into..and I finally felt like I had the energy to get my house back into the order that I like it. Slowly...slowly...slowly I will regain the territory I lost these last few difficult months. We organized the playroom and cleaned every nook and cranny in the kids rooms. Santa Claus can come to our house now. I told the kids he probably wouldn't be interested in bringing new toys to a house with so many toys on the floor...they all pitched in.  Mostly I'm worried about what g-ma bought....times 6 is starting to look like a lot of new stuff. ...but I'm excited for them too....hope you have a lovely next two days getting ready. I love Christmas!! 

Well..so much for the new partner...no show today. Didn't think it would happen that soon. I was hoping for a few solid days and then the, "Uh..I don't think I can do this anymore." I'm not sure if I should show up tomorrow or not. I'll still be running and the earlier the better since all my kids are planning on being up at the crack of dawn. My mom was so lucky. My dad would get up early with us. I'm lucky if Sasha is back in time for anything with all the running he does...day in day out even on Christmas..the Scrooge....does anyone want to dress up like a ghost tonight and scare him for me? he he 

Mmmm...I'm already munching on my sugar-free gummy worms from Santa..got up early and got my run done in the snowy mess outside. 

Merry Christmas from Sarah and Sasha!!!!

I'm not sure if I should keep trying with this new partner...maybe she just decided I wouldn't be there during Christmas break and didn't bother getting up. 

If I can get up early I will. I like getting things done while my kids sleep and to be ready and hopefully perky for them when I'm done. ...still working on the perky part.  

I got up on time, felt good and was excited to see my partner this morning after confirming it at church yesterday....but alas...she wasnt' there. I think I'll keep trying with her just because I think it's good for her to be thinking about exercising everyday and maybe eventually she'll be able to make it a habit to get up on time. She said at church that her baby was up alot last week and that makes it really tough to get up. 

William wakes up sometime between 3-5 and I nurse him in bed and we fall back asleep together.  So I think I'm getting enough sleep to wake up early.

I am just hoping to lose some weight pretty soon. I'm not used to being over 130 and I don't like it.  I'll be happy with 146 (just threw that number out) for awhile and slowly get back to my normal weight but I've got a few pounds to go just to get in the 140s...phew.... 

Got up and got a wonderful reward..my running partner was there!! She wants to get up early..it's just hard with three little kids who keep you up all night. For some reason her baby has started waking up alot...I'm guessing he's teething...that always ruins my best sleepers. 

We had a good time chatting for a bit..two miles goes by fast. I think when I'm with her we run around 11 min mile which feels fast to me after all my deliciously slow 12's.

Came home to find a fun running group for Sasha. I remember when we lived in our other house and he had trouble finding partners for some reason. I think for a whole winter we went to the Provo Canyon Trail in the mountains together everyday. He would run while the kids and I played in the snow or snacked in the car and then I would run while he loaded them up and drove them home. It worked okay and not that I don't enjoy the company of my family...it just felt like sometimes we were the only people on the face of the earth. We never saw anyone up there...where were they? Skiing? Shopping? Can't figure why anyone else didn't want to run in the freezing cold. Sasha is always happier when he has running friends and I'm happy for him.

My favorite partner for him was Ted..Army Runner...that man is the most punctual, most regular partner in the universe for sure. We knew that if he was more than 3 minutes late that that meant he was not coming. I was always grateful for Sasha to have a friend in the morning...he's happier..I'm happier...it's all good. :) 

My running partner's little girl should start training with me..she was up..but no mom. That's okay though because I'm going to try and run with Tarzan some today before or after the New Year's race. I practiced the organ this morning instead of running.  I wish I had more time to practice and could get really good. It is so embarrassing for me to get up there week after week and let everyone in my ward sing to the tail end of my practicing. Maybe I'll be really good in 20 years. I guess I have to focus on progress but I hate being embarrassed in the process. Sasha just laughs and thinks it's the best calling for me so I will stop worrying so much about what people think.