Alice is a Runner!

Nice run in the sun.  The knee started out a bit tight but by the end of the run had calmed.  Doesn't hurt the day after so that is good.

It is hard to not run more than two miles.  I have missed running but sometimes you have to listen to doctor's orders! 

Good run.  Still wanting to run longer and can't seem to rattle the whole listening to my feet clop and trying to run right.  I am thinking that I am just going to turn up the music and just enjoy.  At least until the orthotic inserts get here.  I like to run.  Not being able to run as much as I want to a week is kinda depressing.  I guess I need to just focus on doing what is best for the body instead of what is best for my mind.  That is a very hard thing.  Silly self-mastery!

Note to Self...Listen to the Doctor!!!

Well, I thought I would sneak in three miles, because that is my favorite distance lately and really I haven't been able to run three miles in a very long time.  

 My chiropractor had told me that the limit is two miles.  I thought, meh, what is one mile more anyway?  Yeah.  Always....always....always listen to doctor's orders.  

 The run was nice, except for the stomach wanting to explode about 1.5 in, oh and the whole my knee hurt and buckling around 2.7.  Hence, the whole run being stopped then.  Today I am off to run 2.  Yep that is right....2 miles-no more, no less.  I learned my little sweet lesson! :)

I was going to log this run right after, but must have gotten distracted by something.  I am easily distracted in the summer.  Okay, I am easily distracted all year long.  

 And all I remember now is that it was a run.  Must have been pretty exciting. 

I figured I would write this down BEFORE heading off to shower and get ready for the day.  That way I won't get distracted with the rest of the day and completely forget this run.  Gotta relish in the run in order to appreciate it when the inevitable next running break happens.  

Have I mentioned that I got a new GPS watch?(I am asking my one lonely reader or myself(who may actually be the one lonely reader of this blog), who knows?)  My dad likes to mock me every time he sees me playing with it before I am heading out for a run.  He said to me today: "Man, we had it so much easier when I was younger.  We would just run.  Didn't need to set our watch or put on fancy shoes."  I then asked him if he actually planned a run ever, to which he said "No, we only ran in our "poop"(censor added by me) kickers after the cows."  It really was a lot more simple back when your exercise was just part of your typical working day!  

The run was nice.  I really want to run to the courthouse here in Rhinelander, Wisconsin.  It is my favorite building in this 11 stop light town.  (Eleven seems like a lot, but they all go blinking red at ten o'clock.  Just like my dad who stops functioning at precisely ten every night.) The courthouse is copper topped and has greened over the years.  So pretty.  Anyway, if I were to run there from my parent's house, it would be 2.7 miles  and I really am trying to be a good, listen to the doctor, kind of a girl.  (In my head, I imagined that the courthouse was my turn-around point!)

I really like Wisconsin.  Even the smell of the woods as I run through them(via blacktop road) brings back memories of childhood and life.  I never took much thought into how many shades of green there truly are until I moved out to Utah and come back here every summer.  It is SO green and lovely here.  I also liked to notice the deer paths within the woods as I ran by them. Very pretty morning, even if the sun has not shined in a week!

Oh, and I used the virtual partner on my watch and that was very good motivation for me to keep at a good pace.  I usually want to stop running during the last half of my run, and I actually still wanted to today, but I did not stop. I knew I had "somebody" at my heals the whole run.  I also was almost done and saw a young girl in a yellow shirt running.  I then felt old for a minute.  I thought about her young legs and how she probably can run very fast and not get tired.  It is hard getting old(I have experienced this as I have been playing softball two nights a week this summer, too.  I have to warm up lots more than I ever had to in the past and I am still pulling muscles here and there.  It was my right groin this past Thursday and hammy on Tuesday. Any tips on not having these little pulls? They aren't serious but they bug for the night.)  

While stretching, after the run, I was thinking about how I want to be an old lady and still be running.  I then thought about how my body might just get old and I won't be able to be that lady running the 5k still at 65.  I guess I need to cherish the moments now where I can put on those special shoes, geeky watch, and enjoy the green beauty of being a runner now! 

Alice Unplugged:

I wanted to run, but put it off a little bit because that is what I do with my life in the summer.  I take a bit to get moving because I have a weird sleeping schedule(up late with movies, and then sleep in.).  Anyway, this did not work in my favor with the run because when I was finally mentally prepared to go, I heard thunder.  It has been raining here for what feels like weeks.  I don't think I even remember what the sun looks like. (Not that I stare into it because that is not safe for eyesight!)  So, I had to wait for about 45 minutes until I could run and not get wet and still there was the chance that I'd have a wet run, but I was able to fit this one it before the next storm rolled through.  

 Because of the threat of rain, I decided to go "unplugged," meaning without the iPhone blaring in my ears and without my GPS watch.  I didn't want them getting water damaged.  It was very interesting to listen to the clop, clop of my feet.  I guess it is a good way to see if I am striking properly.  Again, my chiropractor is king!  It was also nice to have a little talk with God along my path.  It was very calming!  Maybe I will have to have a weekly "unplugged" run!

I was very proud to run the whole way.  I also was motivated at the end of the run to keep pace because I saw my friend's husband leaving his work and we have been talking about meeting for lunch, seeing he is working up here(an hour away from where they live).  I did get home quickly, but was unable to find him.  I guess my stalking skills need work.

 Well, off to weigh in.  Wish me luck! 

Great run.  It was motivating to have a 10k go past our house this morning.  I thought about running the 5k but then thought about being good and I am not quite up for a 5 right now.  I am planning on one on the 9th of July though.  I may have to sneak in a few more miles a week to be ready!

 The sun is actually shining today.  I know that doesn't seem big but when you haven't seen it in about two weeks, it seems miraculous.  I was actually feeling hot on my run.  I like that.  Let's hope summer has finally landed to stay here in Northern Wisconsin.