It's only been 4.5 years....

4.5 years. Finished MT school - two certification and I'm on my second job since my last post. I've run I don't even know how many half marathons - 15+ I think and I am fond of the crossfitting and the aerial yoga and the barre class too.

I lost weight, I gained weight. I lost, I gained. I'm about at my normal, non-effortfilled weight and I'm kinda chilling there for now.
I'm also gluten free, dairy free, soy free - borderline paleo.

All six of my furries are still kicking it. Still live in the same place. Still married. Hmmm...It's amazing both how MUCH and how LITTLE has happened in 4.5 years

I completed this week's 9 mile long run in 104 minutes. It is slower than I'd like but at that pace, I'd still net a 2.5 hour half marathon. So, I'm not going to complain. At least not overly much. Distance first, speed second.



I'm writing this at work. On a Saturday. During overtime. Because we have some clients from hell who want stuff NOW - no matter that things only arrived two days ago and that I had to be called in to get this shit done. Stupid job. Stupid people. Stupid stupid. Oh well, my overtime here will just about pay off Karen's ticket out to do the half marathon with me in February.



Tomorrow Nanowrimo starts. I am excited. I am participating (and so is Kimberly) and while I have a plot, I really only have a very very vague plot. No plot outline, no character sketches and no idea where (if anywhere!) this story will go. I'm a brave soul, I guess. But I figured, classes don't start until mid-December, I might as well actually DO Nanowrimo this year, instead of wanting to do it and avoiding it again. I will be blogging bits and pieces of the story, I think. Well, maybe. I guess it depends on how bad it sucks!

So I'm officially accepted into the program at Phoenix College that I applied to.



This is pleasing to me.



I'm continuing with my half-marathon training, after a very disappointing (and hot!) 5k on Saturday. I managed a 32:21 and had to WALK parts of it. I was indignant but didn't wish to die from heat exhaustion. There was NOT enough by way of aid stations. Joshua managed a much more respectable time than I - coming in under 29 minutes. I'm jealous.



So far this week, I ran with Ripley to the dog park on Monday (3.5 miles) and I ran with Mr. Dog this morning (2.25 miles). Tomorrow I'll run with Ripley to the dog park again and hopefully Thursday I'll squeeze in some lifting. Then Friday I'm going to run to the dog park again and follow with my long run on Saturday of 8 miles.

So this week has been rough.



Monday - AM - 3.5 miles with Little Dog, PM - Challenges W3D1

Tuesday - AM - 2.5 miles with Little Dog, PM - FAIL! (no dog walking)

Wednesday - AM - 4.5 miles (half with Little Dog and half with Mr. Dog), PM - FAIL! (no challenges)

Thursday - AM - FAIL! (no dog walking), PM - FAIL! (no dog walking)

Friday - AM - 2.5 miles run at the gym, PM - Challenges W3D2

Saturday - AM - 8.5 miles (half with Little Dog and half with Mr. Dog), PM - Challenges W3D3

Sunday - AM - Lift & Cross-train, PM - REST!

Maybe I was a little overly optimistic? That's a lot of fails so far this week - four of them! Oh well. I've got lots of thought provoking posts floating around in my head but no motivation to write them down. Maybe someday? We'll see.



Otherwise, I'm waiting for word from Phoenix College (3 weeks to go!) and not doing much else. There's a 5k coming up next weekend (Frank Kush 5k - same one that I did last year as my first 5k!).

As cross-posted on Xanga and Facebook!
The week of 9/28/2009:

• Monday: AM - 5k on the treadmill and stretch, PM - challenges
• Tuesday: AM - at least 2 miles with Little Dog( 2.5 actually!), Afternoon - 1 mile walk to Kokopelli's for lunch, PM - Rest FAIL!1.5 miles of walking all three dogs at the same time.
  
• Wednesday: AM - 5k on the treadmill (32:05 compared to Monday's 29:14), PM - challenges FAIL!
  
• Thursday: AM - Lift at the gym (core and pullup!) FAIL!, PM - Rest
• Friday: AM - 3.5 miles with Little Dog, PM - challenges
• Saturday: AM - 8 miles with Little Dog and Mister Dog, PM - Rest - FAIL! challenges!
  
• Sunday: AM - Lift at the gym (core, pullup!) FAIL!, challenge test and cross train - FAIL!

Well, I managed all my running and clocked in a total of 23.7 miles this week.

The challenges were harder since Ripley's poo explosion threw Wednesday out of the loop and resulted in me doing Day 2 on Friday, Day 3 on Saturday and then the Challenge progress test for pushups, crunches and squats today following it with Day 1 of Week 3 tomorrow evening. Four days in a row of body weight exercise is hard on anyone I think.

I did manage 22 pushups (tier 2 next week), 30 good crunches until my bra hurt unbearably and I was strongly reminded as to why I wear a sports bra when I normally do crunches (tier 1 next week) and 41 squats (tier 3 next week). I could have done more crunches in a better bra and more squats except that I want to run 3.75 miles tomorrow. So I did the minimum to put myself in the top tier for next week.

I also did monthly measurements for the first time in two months. And boy, can I tell.

Weight (post delicious Japanese food): 158.8lbs
Bust - 39.5"
Waist - 37.5"
Hip - 42.25"
Thigh - 25.5"
Arm - 12.25"

As posted on Xanga and Facebook


The week of 9/28/2009:

• Monday: AM - 5k on the treadmill and stretch, PM - challenges
• Tuesday: AM - at least 2 miles with Little Dog( 2.5 actually!), Afternoon - 1 mile walk to Kokopelli's for lunch, PM - Rest FAIL!1.5 miles of walking all three dogs at the same time.
  
• Wednesday: AM - 5k on the treadmill (32:05 compared to Monday's 29:14), PM - challenges FAIL!
  
• Thursday: AM - Lift at the gym (core and pullup!) FAIL!, PM - Rest
• Friday: AM - 3.75 miles with Little Dog, PM - challenges
• Saturday: AM - 8 miles with Little Dog and Mister Dog, PM - Rest
• Sunday: AM - Lift at the gym (core, pullup!), challenge test and cross train!

Ah, for the best laid plans of me!! They don't always work! You may have noticed that I planned previously to run Little Dog to the dog park on Monday and Wednesday - but this did NOT happen. And why is that? Oh my beloved job, that is why. I had to be in early on Monday and Wednesday to process some samples that came in with NO notification (well, I guess one business day in advance is SOME notification...) and that have VERY short (24 hour) shelf lives. So that means getting work before my normal 9am time - since the samples are supposed to be there by 830am and have to be done ASAP.

Yeah. The trip to the gym was fine - though I'd forgotten how long time is when on the treadmill as opposed to running with Little Dog. Even showering at the gym was fine (though there was this little girl with a towel and a thong...but that's another day and another store). But on Monday, FedEx delivered the WRONG package and had to be hunted down so the samples were almost two hours late and on Wednesday, FedEx swears they tried to deliver at 0716, when there were three of us in the lab, and none of us heard them. So again, the samples were late. Almost 3 hours this time. Gack.

Disrupting Little Dog schedule makes her nutty with lack of exercise and it disrupts the boys' (Mr. Dog and Skinny Dog) schedule as well since one person cannot take three dogs to the dog park. Well, they can but not these three without wanting three shock collars and an industrially strength dog repellent. The nice thing about going in to work so early is that I get to leave early though.

Well, at least that's what I thought, until I got home last night. Ripley had been up the previous night at 1100, 0200, 0245 and about 0400. At least one of those times she had to poop and the other times I just ignored her or sent her outside without observing her. Yeah, apparently I should have paid more attention because I came home to the poop explosion in her kennel. She was covered, her kennel was covered, Mr. Dog's kennel was covered, her bedding was covered, Mr. Dog's bedding was covered, her chewie squirrel was covered, the FLOOR and the GROUT and the WALL were also liberally doused. It was a major ick factor that took about 2 hours to clean up. And meanwhile, Little Dog was still squirting, as it were. Poor thing. All the way up until about 7 or 8pm she was having diarrhea. And occasional vomiting.

So, I didn't work out last night or this morning. But I did get to stay home from work - it didn't really seem fair to put her in her kennel just on the off chance that she might have another bout of the poopies. No one and nothing should have to lay in their own feces for an entire day. That's just not fair. Thus far, she's been healthy and so has Mr. Dog and Skinny Dog. Let's just hope it continues and that Little Dog keeps down her dinner (which will be like her breakfast, 1/4 of what she normally gets liberally mixed with pumpkin). Assumign that she's okay tonight, we're going running tomorrow morning!