Back at it!

Well I ran my first race since hurting my knee.  It was my first half marathon since july and since I fell.  I was doing alright until about mile 8 or 9 then the pounding on the hard ground started to bother me.  It was colder than I like to run in (who idea was it to run a marathon in January).  I bundled up and said I don't have choice I have to get these miles in.

getting out of the car was the hardest part until mile 8 or 9.  Thats when my leg and ankles started to bother me.   My knee didn't hurt but I could tell that my muscles weren't at the level that they normally would be at. My ankles hurt because of how hard the ground was.  I never have problems in the summer so this pain was kind of new to me.  I have had issues with one of the them in some winter races before but never both.  Oh wells it winter in chicago so I will just have to get used to it for the rest of my training.  I don't think it will be a problem in florida.  It was a rough race for my dad also.  He normally runs a half with a bad ankle in about 2:28- 2:31 and he finished in 2:49.

I was able to run with a fellow W.I.S.H. run Rick and that was nice because we have run several of the same race but were never able to talk, so it was nice to talk for 13.1 miles.

My next race will be the Walt Disney World full Marathon and I am not sure if that is exciting or scary. I still have a lot of training to get in before we head down but I am looking forward to running at the happiest place on earth again.

Until Next Time.

THey came!!!

I have to start by saying that I ordered my W.I.S.H team running shirts in July.  after I opened them the first time the color was correct but the writing was missing so back they went.  I called and the company was really really NICE and felt bad about this mix up.  There was a few races that we wanted to wear them in but then I got hurt so it was all good that we didn't have them yet.

It took forever to get them back again because they needed to wait for more orders.  I didn't have a problem with that I totally understand that it is more cost effective for the company to wait for a larger order to print than just our four shirts.  Again Every time I called the company was very very nice to me about my having to wait longer for the shirts.

A long story short I now have one less thing I was stressing about for marathon weekend.  I guess now my main stress is going to be the actual running part.

Not Much going on.

Well like the title says there isn't much going on right now.  I have gotten back to training and that is slowly get back on track. Life has been stressful lately which is also why I haven't had time to post anything.  We moved my grandma into a nursing home and that wasn't easy at all.  plus I decided to return to school and that whole process from the financial aid to signing up for classes was more frustrating then the first time I went to school.  Other than that we had a whopping 17 trick or treaters at halloween.