For those of you who have been reading my blogs, you may be wondering what happened to days 25-30? Well I will try to make this as brief as possible. In a nutshell, my little bro was scheduled for knee surgery up in Chico, Cali and I was going to drive up Friday the 13th so that I could hang with him in the hospital, spend the weekend with him, come back to Fresno for a work meeting and then drive back up to Chico Tuesday or Wednesday.
My brother calls me Friday morning and says that our older sister was having contractions and was now at the hospital with our brudda-in-law. Needless to say, my sister went into labor the same day my brother's knee surgery was scheduled. So essentially I had a change of plans. I drove up to Livermore Friday night and then hung out at the hospital with my cousin waiting for the baby to be delivered (finally my sis had to have a c-section b/c the baby did not enjoy being squeezed by the uterus and was distressed). So I ended up leaving the hospital about midnight and by the time I finished feeding the cats and cleaning up their litter boxes it was like 1am.
But I was so adrenalized that I could not sleep and ended up falling asleep at 3am. But I was so excited I ended up waking up at 6am.
I wanted to go for a 3 mile run, but I was running on 3 hours of sleep and there was no one to watch the Xman for me so I forewent my run & decided instead to put together the baby's bassinet (since they weren't expecting her until July 4th) they hadn't put much together. Afterwards, Xman and I had our baby fix and then headed up to Chico to spend time with my lil bro.
Unfortunately, Saturday night my brother started spiking a fever about 3am and because there was a risk of infection my bro had orders to go to the hospital immediately if his temp hit 102. So from 3am to about 5am I was monitoring my bro's temp every 30 minutes. By 5am his fever broke and he was down to 97.5! But just to make sure, I decided to check his temp at 7am. So 2 hours later I was up checking his temp and it got down to almost 96 woohoo!!!
But on so little sleep from tonight and the night before, I was not going to attempt to do any kind of exercise or 3 mile running. So I opted for grocery shopping, cooking and playing with my lil bro's hamster Mo. My little bro was dying to meet our new niece and my sister wanted to see my lil bro. So I decided to take my lil bro back up to Livermore and spend Mon-Thursday because I had to meet with my private student on Friday afternoon.
So basically I drove from Fresno to Livemore on Friday. On Saturday Livermore to Chico. On Monday Chico to Livermore. On Thursday Livermore to Chico and then Chico to Fresno...and I came back to Fresno on Friday at 1am... But the whole week I was up in Livermore, I was cooking, cleaning, holding my niece, doing laundry, making sure Xman didn't feel neglected, helping my lil bro as needed (he has to watch with crutches & his wound is fresh so he really needs to lay down and recover), getting water, cleaning cat poo, feeding cats, and making sure my sister, brudda-in-law, and lil bro were cool beans. Technically, I was supposed to stay with my lil bro for a week after his surgery and then when I was supposed to stay with my sister & brudda-in-law during the week of the baby's due date. But instead baby B.E.L decided it was be nice to have the whole family together in Livermore.
But it was not rigorous at all I was not the only person doing dishes or laundry, but I decided that this past week was going to be rest week from running and cross training.
Which now brings me to Day 31 June 21st, which I was terrified of because I had not run since June 12th nor had I done any exercise. And I knew today was a four mile run day...I was scared plus my asthma has been kicking in...But surprisingly I ran very strong!
As I was running I looked around and realized that we had actually run around an area of Woodward Park that takes us out to the exit for Cobb Ranch near Madera. I was floored I could not believe I had run so far and at the end of the 1.5 miles I felt really strong. I was seriously contemplating going the extra mile-literally-but I knew that I felt good now, but I still had to run back another 1.5 miles and there were two hills, one of which I had never run before. So I thought it best to turn around.
The interval training is really helping...I feel like a strong runner and I run faster during my run intervals. I kept a very good pace b/c I noticed that I ran my intervals on the same path going back as going there.
It was a good call! Because when I got to the hill I had never ran, it was steeper than it looked at the end. And I pushed myself to run up it and by the top I was pumping my arms like mad...it felt good, and it almost kicked my ass but I didn't let it...it felt good to push myself. So I made friends with the hill instead. And then when I hit the next hill, I pushed myself to run. This hill not as steep but a bit longer than the first. When I ran up that hill I saw the destination and I felt pretty damn good...I was sweaty, exhausted, and seriously needed some liquids...and I could feel my body going into cool-down...So I stretched which felt sooo very good and then waited for Casimiro, because he had run the 6 miles - he by the way is an awesome runner and my main motivator.
When he got back we congratulated one another for a job well done. And I was surprised that after a week of no exercise or running I had run 4 miles with two hills at about an 11 min/mile pace...I know I won't always have a run day like today, but this will go in my motivational file for when I have a bad run day.
Hey all, please donate to the cause we are running for Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. So please go to our website and donate!
Roxanne Villaluz's Team in Training Website
http://pages.teamintraining.org/cca/nikesf08/rvillaluz
Casimiro Llamas, Jr.'s Team in Training Website
http://pages.teamintraining.org/cca/nikesf08/cllamas
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