Friday was an awesome boot camp class. Not one part of my body was dry! The result extremely sore and stiff body. By last night I didn't even want to move. I just laid in my recliner and even if I moved a leg it hurt. AWESOME CLASS! Today I aim to get outside for a little run even if it hurts and I know it will. Yesterday I went to do the split times for the Y 10K run. Those people are inspiring. Some of the people are so fast and strong they just whipped by me without appearing to be in any pain and discomfort. Others you could tell were giving everything they had! Some of the people were quite surprising. One little man who looked to be at least in his mid 60's was hauling butt and in the top 20. He certainly did not look like the "average runner" but boy did he move. During the entire race I was eaten up with envy because I too would like to be at the level. I will just keep working at it...maybe by the end of the year I will be ready for the 10k pumpkin push but unless I can get my foot healthy and strong by then it won't happen. But I am going to continue working and stretching that foot and be persistant. I LOVE WATCHING RUNNERS! They all have different styles. It is just AMAZING...The one thing I noticed you will hardly ever see a chubby woman out there but you see alot of chubby men??? Any insight on this? I myself am still a chubby woman and I feel very out of place because almost always I am one of the larger woman on runs. Maybe that is why? The chubby woman feels out of place while a chubby man will huff and puff and not give a darn what people think??? I say STAND UP WOMAN OF CHUB AND JOIN ME! COME HUFF AND PUTT AND SWEAT WITH ME SO I DO NOT STAND ALONE IN MY FIGHT FOR HEALTH AND FITNESS.
Okay off my rampage about the plight of the chubby woman and back to the race I don't know why I had to do split times because the people that were interested in time had their own watch and despite my giving their times they looked at their watch anyway. I think alot of people did not care about split times...just finishing and final time. At any rate aside from being eaten up with envy I had a fun time. They have one more training run which is a 15k. I think I will sign up to work that one also.
After the race I stopped by to see my grandchildren. Just one was at home and she was actually awake. The last times I have gone over she has been in some kind of baby stupor where you could not wake her for anything. WHAT A BEAUTIFUL GIRL SHE IS. She gave me the cutest little baby smile when I picked her up and I just held her and my heart was filled with love.
We were suppose to have a birthday party for my husband last night but alas he is sick. So we have rescheduled it for tonight. Hopefully he will be adequately recovered. You really must be in good health in order to have family gathering with our family because we are a loud and rowdy group. Almost all of us take aspirin in anticipation of our gatherings. We laugh and insult and laugh some more.
Blah it is timed to get dressed, taped, braced and go outside for a run. I think since I ate mostly junk yesterday that this is going to be a difficult run! Please send thoughts of fastness and strength to me as I battle thru this run!!!
Sunday, February 26, 2006
GIRL SCOUT COOKIES ARE EVIL
Aggg it is girl scout cookie time and yes I bought some...all in the interest of helping the girlscouts of course. I thought I could be strong. I was wrong. The first night I got them I ripped the box open and devoured several of each type...okay more then several. I then had my husband lock them up in our gun safe and told him under no circumstances was he to give them to me before the weekend. Does Friday count as the weekend? If not it does now. My husband poor man was sick and obviously delirious because when I asked him where was the key to the gun safe...HE TOLD ME! Now I good diabetic girl would NOT have gotten the key and reclaimed her cookies. While I am an awesome diabetic girl on the weekdays by Friday I am teetering on the edge of the pit of gluttony...by Saturday morning I am falling and by Saturday night I have usually plunged completely to the bottom. I then spend all Sunday painfully crawling my way back up and out of th pit. Okay back to the girlscout cookie saga...Friday night I gorged on cookies till I felt sick. So Saturday morning I plated the remaining cookies up and took them the Y for a snack for the people doing the 10k training run. It pained my soul but I turned my cookies over with a smile. Now I just have to avoid going to all public places to avoid the girlscouts who are trying to kill poor diabetic Kim by offering to sell her yet more cookies. My advise to all...AVOID WALMART...they send their most cut throat cookies sellers to Walmart. I believe they pick the cutest of the cute and send them to Walmart where there is a high volume of traffic. Those little girls might look cute and adorable but their goal is to break my will! They come up and ask oh so cutely "Would you like to by some cookies?" I usually tell them that I should not have cookies because I am not suppose to eat sugar. I really don't know why I give them a reason but I do. I think they must get a badge for mind control. They usually look so crestfallen that I mutter "Okay maybe just one box". But the worst of it is the whole scenerio is played out when I come back OUT of Walmart and usually it is a new little girl so I can't even say "Oh I just bought a box from you". So before entering any store I scan the outside for signs of girlscouts or people coming out of the store with boxes of cookies....***inside information**** sometimes the girlscouts are lurking within the story so be wary!!!
Friday, February 24, 2006
Dude Looks Like a Lady
Well one comment to many and now the lady next to me in core performance class calls me "Dude". Who do I have to thank...my son James.... I was laughing and telling her the story how my son said "Mom you have Dude Legs" and she thinks it is hilarious and now calls me "Dude"
Fitness: Foot hurt Tuesday after running on it for about 3 miles. I really think that stretching is going to help alot because the pain is weird...like I have said before it is like a have a rubberband inside my leg (that goes underneath my arch) that feels like it is pulling...thus causing a throbbing. I am going to keep stretching and my husband and I are going to start a stretching class since core performance has ended.
I am also working the 10k race this weekend. I am assigned to the 1mile split time...hope I don't mess it up. The race director said all I have to do is read the time off the watch and yell...she said she knows I can yell...can I read??? Work out for the week so far:
Sunday: 3 miles on treadmill (slow run)
Monday: 1 Hour Boot Camp Class
Tuesday: 3mile outdoor run (again slow), 45 minutes lifting, 45 minutes core performance
Wed: 45 minutes Water Boot Camp Class
Thursday: 30 min (3.5 miles) on precor, 15 minutes on treadmill (slow only did a little over a mile...legs burnt out from precor) 45 minutes lifting, 45 minutes core performance.
Friday: 1 Hour Boot Camp Class
Nothing new on the home front.... FOUND another sign of a Mouse...so I am on the hunt...I will find it...I will destroy it.... That little mouse is welcome to stay in the garage but he has crossed the line when he crossed my threshhold. So a hunting I will go...I think once I catch it I will stuff the little guy and display him to warn other little mousies what happens when you enter KIM'S DOMAIN. I think his yummy death treat will be rice krispie treats... Rice Krispies on a trap...sounds deadly delicious.
Fitness: Foot hurt Tuesday after running on it for about 3 miles. I really think that stretching is going to help alot because the pain is weird...like I have said before it is like a have a rubberband inside my leg (that goes underneath my arch) that feels like it is pulling...thus causing a throbbing. I am going to keep stretching and my husband and I are going to start a stretching class since core performance has ended.
I am also working the 10k race this weekend. I am assigned to the 1mile split time...hope I don't mess it up. The race director said all I have to do is read the time off the watch and yell...she said she knows I can yell...can I read??? Work out for the week so far:
Sunday: 3 miles on treadmill (slow run)
Monday: 1 Hour Boot Camp Class
Tuesday: 3mile outdoor run (again slow), 45 minutes lifting, 45 minutes core performance
Wed: 45 minutes Water Boot Camp Class
Thursday: 30 min (3.5 miles) on precor, 15 minutes on treadmill (slow only did a little over a mile...legs burnt out from precor) 45 minutes lifting, 45 minutes core performance.
Friday: 1 Hour Boot Camp Class
Nothing new on the home front.... FOUND another sign of a Mouse...so I am on the hunt...I will find it...I will destroy it.... That little mouse is welcome to stay in the garage but he has crossed the line when he crossed my threshhold. So a hunting I will go...I think once I catch it I will stuff the little guy and display him to warn other little mousies what happens when you enter KIM'S DOMAIN. I think his yummy death treat will be rice krispie treats... Rice Krispies on a trap...sounds deadly delicious.
Monday, February 20, 2006
Clarification
Thought I better clear a point up. The only reason my niece beat me in the sprint was because I had a twisted ankle and it hurt...she WOULD NOT have beaten me otherwise!
I HATE THE TREADMILL
Yesterday morning was COLD...with the windchill is was in the minus degrees at 5:30 am. I contemplated running outside...stuck my head out the door a couple of times...my husband said I was stupid and would freeze to death....I thought not...then I remembered my shoes have those nice little airvents and that my feet, in fact, would get frost bite. So like a good girl I hopped on my treadmill. I HATE THE TREADMILL. I pertually chant (inside my head of course) I hate the treadmill over and over and over. I tried the music. I tried lifting the blinds to try to fool myself into thinking I was outside. Of course after I was on it for 20 minutes and still had not reached my garage I think I figured out that I was going no place. When I did lift my blinds I saw the most disgusting thing...a spiderweb just full of flies....blah I thought I was gonna hurl...I guess I need to make dusting my laundry room a priorty.
On Saturday went to Walmart accompanied by my oh so cute grandson. I told him when we were going in that I was not buying him a toy we were just grocery shopping...I did not buy him a toy but somehow I ended up buying him groceries. He took home Frootloops, yougart, cheese crackers and sugar free gum. Evidently it was vitally important that he have the "All new Froot Loops with new golden loops".
Saturday night I worked our school carnival. That is the grade school all my children went to (the children that are now 24,25 and21). I have worked every year since the middle child was in kindergarton. I think they have me on a life time contract. At any rate, my son, his fiance, my daughter, her husband, my neice and I all worked. My oldest son took the baby so he did not work but walked around and showed off his beautiful baby. I won 12 free games of bowling, my son won 24 games of bowling (thru the raffle) and he won 38 bucks on the 50/50. My oldest son won this really nice board gift basket. Poor daughter won nothing but she had fun!
Sunday the entire family went to use their bowling coupons. I won the first game in a grudge match against my oldest son. He now owes me a steak dinner. I told him I would pick a place where I had a free appetizer coupon but he is gonna buy me dessert. I bowl so much better when I bowl for steak. We are the worse family in the world...we always have to "Beat someone" My son's fiance has truely become part of the family because at the end of the game she said "At least I beat Tyson"(my grandson) Hahaha Gotta love a girl like that...we have turned her! We don't care who we beat as long as we beat someone... My niece one time was all giddy because she beat me in a sprint...my mother looked at her and said "There is no pride in beating a 4o year old woman when you are 12" My niece said "I don't care I still beat her!"
Well time to go to Power Hour and work my poor sad body...
On Saturday went to Walmart accompanied by my oh so cute grandson. I told him when we were going in that I was not buying him a toy we were just grocery shopping...I did not buy him a toy but somehow I ended up buying him groceries. He took home Frootloops, yougart, cheese crackers and sugar free gum. Evidently it was vitally important that he have the "All new Froot Loops with new golden loops".
Saturday night I worked our school carnival. That is the grade school all my children went to (the children that are now 24,25 and21). I have worked every year since the middle child was in kindergarton. I think they have me on a life time contract. At any rate, my son, his fiance, my daughter, her husband, my neice and I all worked. My oldest son took the baby so he did not work but walked around and showed off his beautiful baby. I won 12 free games of bowling, my son won 24 games of bowling (thru the raffle) and he won 38 bucks on the 50/50. My oldest son won this really nice board gift basket. Poor daughter won nothing but she had fun!
Sunday the entire family went to use their bowling coupons. I won the first game in a grudge match against my oldest son. He now owes me a steak dinner. I told him I would pick a place where I had a free appetizer coupon but he is gonna buy me dessert. I bowl so much better when I bowl for steak. We are the worse family in the world...we always have to "Beat someone" My son's fiance has truely become part of the family because at the end of the game she said "At least I beat Tyson"(my grandson) Hahaha Gotta love a girl like that...we have turned her! We don't care who we beat as long as we beat someone... My niece one time was all giddy because she beat me in a sprint...my mother looked at her and said "There is no pride in beating a 4o year old woman when you are 12" My niece said "I don't care I still beat her!"
Well time to go to Power Hour and work my poor sad body...
Wednesday, February 15, 2006
IRAN....sorta
Okay Tuesday morning I did a little over 3 miles...slow but did not stop once and walk...yeah Kim. However, Tuesday afternoon my ankle felt stiff and tight. I am going to keep up stretching it because it does not hurt so much as just feels tight...like a rubberband. So I am gonna stretch myself till I look like Stretch Armstrong...I stretch my foot in the morning before I get out of bed...I stretch at the Y before and after workout...I stretch at work while I am at the copy machine...and hoping that NO ONE walks in on me...because they are going to think I am nuts if they see me. But I figure instead of just standing there I might as well be doing calf raises and ankle rotations etc... Being outside instead of on a treadmill or Precor did me a world of good! I think it was more then worth the ankle stiffness.
MOOD UPDATE:My mood has been much improved....its strange but the only time I am in a really good mood is when I am outside running (or more like semi running) or am at the Y. I think I may be an endorphin junkie! Is is like drugs...the more you use the more you want...will I eventually one day be at the YMCA 24/7 to keep my high??? Do they have a 12 step program for this...will my family have to have an intervention?
WEIGHT LIFTING: I HATE DOING MORE REPETITONS AND LESS WEIGHT! My mind screams MORE WEIGHT MORE WEIGHT....However, I look down at my extremely large calves and biceps and try to remember that my husband does not find the female Hercules look sexy. Plus I think he thinks I am kinda scarey!!
FAMILY: Daughter...doing well...pregnant...still tired...poor girl. Eldest son....doing great at fatherhood...Youngest Son: Anxious to get married....to be married in November. Grandchildren...cute (nothing changed there). Dogs...annoying AND smelly...my house perpetually smells like wet dog...gross. I tried febreeze but it just smells like perfumed wet dog....even grosser (is grosser a word...it should be!)
Time to go now I am suppose to be cleaning house while my husband is taking a bath...I am not...I am going to wipe my counters down with Pine Sol so the house will smell like I have been cleaning it....bad Kim! I DO NOT LIKE TO CLEAN HOUSE WHEN I CAN BE BLOGGING OR ENTERING TIMES INTO MY EXERCISE SPREADSHEET. AGGGG water is draining...gotta log off and Pine Sol.....
MOOD UPDATE:My mood has been much improved....its strange but the only time I am in a really good mood is when I am outside running (or more like semi running) or am at the Y. I think I may be an endorphin junkie! Is is like drugs...the more you use the more you want...will I eventually one day be at the YMCA 24/7 to keep my high??? Do they have a 12 step program for this...will my family have to have an intervention?
WEIGHT LIFTING: I HATE DOING MORE REPETITONS AND LESS WEIGHT! My mind screams MORE WEIGHT MORE WEIGHT....However, I look down at my extremely large calves and biceps and try to remember that my husband does not find the female Hercules look sexy. Plus I think he thinks I am kinda scarey!!
FAMILY: Daughter...doing well...pregnant...still tired...poor girl. Eldest son....doing great at fatherhood...Youngest Son: Anxious to get married....to be married in November. Grandchildren...cute (nothing changed there). Dogs...annoying AND smelly...my house perpetually smells like wet dog...gross. I tried febreeze but it just smells like perfumed wet dog....even grosser (is grosser a word...it should be!)
Time to go now I am suppose to be cleaning house while my husband is taking a bath...I am not...I am going to wipe my counters down with Pine Sol so the house will smell like I have been cleaning it....bad Kim! I DO NOT LIKE TO CLEAN HOUSE WHEN I CAN BE BLOGGING OR ENTERING TIMES INTO MY EXERCISE SPREADSHEET. AGGGG water is draining...gotta log off and Pine Sol.....
Monday, February 13, 2006
Sunday, February 12, 2006
Back from Indy to find out that I do not know what I am talking about. The guy did a gate analysis and while I overpronate it is not severe. So I had the wrong shoes which in fact were probably making me worse. He said I need a light stability/gel shoe and to get rid of all the other stuff. The rigid orthodic, the ankle brace. He gave a soft supportive orthodic and an asic gel shoe. He said if these shoes don't feel good to come back in 30 days and they will switch out my shoes and try another. So as soon as I have my first cup of coffee out I go to check out my spiffy new shoes. There was a really cool pair of purple ones but unfortunately they did not feel as good as the Aasics so I was a good girl and picked comfort over cuteness but it was a tough call.
I had a delicious dinner over at my daughter's house last night. However, I gave my self one heck of a stomach ache by eating mass quanities of the cinnamon swirl bread...ymmm now I will have to exercise like a demon today to make up for what all I ate yesterday! Because if I had just eaten at my daughter's that would not have been bad but when we went to Indy we went out to eat and then stopped at Donaldson's Chocolates on the way back home....BAD KIM.....
This afternoon I am heading over to my son's to see my grandson and grandaughter I will be taking pictures and posting them later so I can share the cuteness with the world.
Thanks again to my son and fiance for driving me to Indy. My poor little car she is use to puttering around town and my son said it was good for the car blah blah blah to make it go zoom on the interstate. I disagree and I am sure she was sobbing and shuddering by the time we got home. She will probably breakdown on me on the way to church to spite me for letting my son drive my "windup car" to Indianapolis. None of the men in my family like my mini Saturn and they grimace and groan while entering and exiting my vehicle.
Well off to try my new shoes.
I had a delicious dinner over at my daughter's house last night. However, I gave my self one heck of a stomach ache by eating mass quanities of the cinnamon swirl bread...ymmm now I will have to exercise like a demon today to make up for what all I ate yesterday! Because if I had just eaten at my daughter's that would not have been bad but when we went to Indy we went out to eat and then stopped at Donaldson's Chocolates on the way back home....BAD KIM.....
This afternoon I am heading over to my son's to see my grandson and grandaughter I will be taking pictures and posting them later so I can share the cuteness with the world.
Thanks again to my son and fiance for driving me to Indy. My poor little car she is use to puttering around town and my son said it was good for the car blah blah blah to make it go zoom on the interstate. I disagree and I am sure she was sobbing and shuddering by the time we got home. She will probably breakdown on me on the way to church to spite me for letting my son drive my "windup car" to Indianapolis. None of the men in my family like my mini Saturn and they grimace and groan while entering and exiting my vehicle.
Well off to try my new shoes.
Saturday, February 11, 2006
There and Back Again
Where oh where has Poor Sad Kim gone? To the depths of depression and back again is where I have been. Well maybe I am not totally back but I am trying to focus and regain my joy for life. Assorted issues have been causing me problems:
Family, Health etc... I guess if I could have run then all the problems would have seemed not nearly as bad. But unfortunately for me my arch pain had finally started healing and boom twisted my ankle and had to be off of it for about 2 1/2 weeks. Those were the longest weeks I have every experienced....Just Eliptical...which I have a long standing love/hate relationship with. At any rate my foot is better and I have been slowly getting back at it. I did 2 1/2 miles on Tuesday and Thursday both slow but it felt good in a painful sorta way. Today I am going to a store in Broadripple to have a gait analysis done. I am almost positive that I need extra stability shoes but what the heck I will let an expert tell me. My son, James and his fiance will be going with me...because I am a big baby and am scared of the interstate. It's only gonna cost me a luch to get him to drag me up there....hope he eats breakfast first!
Lifting update: I feel like I am getting so strong...in my fact here is an exact quote from my son James, "Mom you're starting to look like a dude...you got dude legs...gross" So I guess I will back off on increasing the weights and start doing more repetitions. My husband has advised that a wife should not have bigger biceps then her husband...that comment just sealed the deal that I would not be increasing my weights but rather do repetitions....though it kills me because I really LOVE to lift weights. I especially love the bench press....
Running Update: Finally back but have to go slow while my foot continues to heal... I got to use my Yaks last week because of some light snow and ice...they were awesome....Matter of fact my foot felt great after that...probably because the Yaks were holding it stable.
Eliptical: I think my thighs have gotten bigger while using this machine...has anyone else had this problem? I start with resistance 9 to warm up then increase over time with keeping it mostly at 12 and hitting some 20's for total resistance...is this wrong? Any advise?
Power Hour Class: Love it!!!! I actually felt like I could do most everything because my foot is much stronger. I went in early Friday to use the, what I like to call,"The Whacking Ball" it looks like a medicine ball and it is on a rope. I whacked the heck out of the Y wall.... I visualized all my problems and whacked away for about 15 minutes. I was exhausted and much more relaxed after that.
Core Performance Class: Great and Ouch...enough said.
Pregnant Daughter Update: Preganant, grouchy and tired....but I still love her!!!
Well that is all for now....Off to Indy I go....
Family, Health etc... I guess if I could have run then all the problems would have seemed not nearly as bad. But unfortunately for me my arch pain had finally started healing and boom twisted my ankle and had to be off of it for about 2 1/2 weeks. Those were the longest weeks I have every experienced....Just Eliptical...which I have a long standing love/hate relationship with. At any rate my foot is better and I have been slowly getting back at it. I did 2 1/2 miles on Tuesday and Thursday both slow but it felt good in a painful sorta way. Today I am going to a store in Broadripple to have a gait analysis done. I am almost positive that I need extra stability shoes but what the heck I will let an expert tell me. My son, James and his fiance will be going with me...because I am a big baby and am scared of the interstate. It's only gonna cost me a luch to get him to drag me up there....hope he eats breakfast first!
Lifting update: I feel like I am getting so strong...in my fact here is an exact quote from my son James, "Mom you're starting to look like a dude...you got dude legs...gross" So I guess I will back off on increasing the weights and start doing more repetitions. My husband has advised that a wife should not have bigger biceps then her husband...that comment just sealed the deal that I would not be increasing my weights but rather do repetitions....though it kills me because I really LOVE to lift weights. I especially love the bench press....
Running Update: Finally back but have to go slow while my foot continues to heal... I got to use my Yaks last week because of some light snow and ice...they were awesome....Matter of fact my foot felt great after that...probably because the Yaks were holding it stable.
Eliptical: I think my thighs have gotten bigger while using this machine...has anyone else had this problem? I start with resistance 9 to warm up then increase over time with keeping it mostly at 12 and hitting some 20's for total resistance...is this wrong? Any advise?
Power Hour Class: Love it!!!! I actually felt like I could do most everything because my foot is much stronger. I went in early Friday to use the, what I like to call,"The Whacking Ball" it looks like a medicine ball and it is on a rope. I whacked the heck out of the Y wall.... I visualized all my problems and whacked away for about 15 minutes. I was exhausted and much more relaxed after that.
Core Performance Class: Great and Ouch...enough said.
Pregnant Daughter Update: Preganant, grouchy and tired....but I still love her!!!
Well that is all for now....Off to Indy I go....
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