..jojo..restraint is spelt with an 'R"

..thought id better remind myself..cos i seemed to completely forget this today..ok heres how the day panned out...
get up...put on running skirt ..realise legs way too white..whack on a bit of fake tan(still vwhite)..decide to print out the details for bendigo..ooops starts at 12:40 not 1ish as first thought..
realise once i start driving i have no idea how to get to bendigo...lucky i read maps and drive safely LOL..ring dad..no annswer..bro..no answer..accidentally wake a gf..cos the internet mentioned something abput the hume...and that didnt seem the best way to me..
anyway drove way past HARCOURT...chucked a u-ie..went to some apple place asking where the pool was...got there...almost had a car crash cos i was sooo excited to see em i forgot to keep driving..oops....frigged around for god knows how long..dropped cars off at the end(we were all like hmmmmm which way..pulled over at one stage..so i could tell front car the way..then em pulls up slightly lost the other way..PISSER..and went back....waited for ever..put on sooooooooo much dencorub..which helped..saw stu briefly doing the same leg(hopefully he will tell me it was a fast course cos otherwise i went way too fast)(had also finally met Sam from ausrun too)..the plan was 25:30(5min/km pace) ummmmm well that went completely out the window didnt it!!!! I was somewhere between 23:30(4:36m/k) and 24:15(4:45m/k)...that is... I THINK...i didnt get the timer on immediately due to SASH issues..but my time said 23:09 and im pretty sure it was less than 1 minute... anyway waaaaaaaaaaaaay too fast...hopefully pull up ok...calf already sore...i dont care about that tho..its all about the back...was all jumpy and excited at the end but a bit nervous(i jump when im excited..its a good sign for my back that i have reverted to this habit..must be feelin better,,,because i hadnt done it for months)..pre injury if i was racing my time would have been 22-22:30 so given my comeback stage i was probably a little bit(well lot) too close to racing pace..saw tiger boy there..hes trying to convince me to do his club xcountry next week..gotta say i am tempted..i have soooooooooooooooooooooo missed competition..such a LOSER!
then jumped in car to go home..getting heckled by a friend...just about reversed into a car..ooopsies..yeah that stopped the heckling..NOT..
no idea how to get back to melbourne ..so just started driving in random direction..stopped at some small shop to get MORE drections(yes lost again)..it doesnt show anything on the melways... drive home.very pleasant ..except when i hallucinated that there was a dog on the road....it was very weird...cos id found my glasses and all....although lucky that wasnt during the raining.110km/hour texting phase..naughty jojo..home now..about to go out for a couple of drinks..surely a wine will have the same effect as icing my calf..oh yeah got home...sunnies fell into the flowing stream in the gutter..towards the drain.l..have to chase them..of course!!!!
ok jojo breathe...um i think you get an idea of the day by the fact that it is basically all one sentence without breathing LOL
wont know til tomorrow how i pull up...but it wasnt the smartest thing ive ever done... fingers crossed

oh and this little 'runjanerun' is looking forward to meeting the other ausrun gals for a drink tomorrow(and boys if any show)

..tight tight sore sore

..ok that would be the best way to describe me today..calf is tight tight bordering on sore..and back is well a little tight.. and im still sore from the bruises..which i apparently knock my legs into things 5000times a day
..have whacked the skins on to see if that might help :( not too sore to be able to manage a run tomorrow..but will expect to pull up a little sore after the semi race... the physio has said that i can start pushing a little... within my body's capacities though and to be a little cautious... cautious...now you do know what that is jojo yeah??
hmmmmmmmmm... as a friend said to me last night..i probably did yesterday's session a bit too fast..(which i knew) which was silly so close to coliban...oh well..i might even go for a swim today(although its supposed to be a rest day as have exercised 9 days in a row

...later
..ahhh i spent an enjoyable afternoon at the Espy having a quiet beer with a gf...how nice is that!!!!

then decided(as you do) a swim really wasnt on the cards...i wonder if shopping might do the trick ;)

i got back(finally) some money from my health fund...and whilst i could save this...it seems a waste..it kinda feels like FREE money(i already paid off the cc) and you know im sure i could do with another few undies..lol..i actually counted them today.. the number was absolutely ridiculous..and thats after throwing heaps away

..so this is the first year ever that a) i will receive more from my health fund than i pay them (although the amount of money i paid out to medical practitioners (that word looks mispelt but i checked it)was obsene...lets just say ball park 4000..plus another 3000 to come..ouch!

so a quiet one for joey tonight i think..unless i decide to get a gaggle of the gals together..one never knows how ill feel in an hour...

oh yeah and bendigo tomorrow..noice

..i looooooove this running caper

..what a great day again... however not too excited today which is good!

up and at my nieces house by 9, playing nails again(sternly told to bring my own next time)amongst other things..

then at the TAN for a session:practice for the bendigo relays..
5.1 ish kms at a pace of 5:12..so happy with that(prob try to stick to 5min/k at bendigo)..struggled to keep good form a little in the last km(calves were feeling kinda tight)..then met a gf there (altho she seemed unable to work out 'top of anderson st hill' and was waiting in the wrong spot!!
so with her 3mins super slow 2 walk 3jog 2 walk 3 jog 2walk 2 jog 2 walk 2 jog so an extra 13 mins to bering it up to my longest run so far... hopefully pul up well..
..not sure whats happening with the relays tho..apparently one girl short for a 2nd team..and in this recovery state i def should not be in the div 2 team...
and i got to wear my cute little running skirt at the TAN- havent been able to do that forever...how good it felt..i loved the run today..everything about it :)
..the only one small thing is the last two runs..i have had to stop 3 times in the first five mins..cos the left ankle has felt like it is made of glass and is just too painful to continue without warming it up..so i think i need to warm ankle up a little more

then a bath..so feeling all warm and nice and and fuzzy and and and...good vibes to the world...:)

..also i just love the way kharma works...a gf of mine didnt get a permanent job(they really should have given it to her but were following their own stupid agenda assuming she would just stay) anyway turns out someone else has come along and offered her a job(with HEAPS more pay) and the first place will really have to scramble to replace her within two weeks...beeeeeeautiful.... i was extremely happy for her
..and apologies to anyone at the TAN who heard me shriek with delight whilst on the phone(it was seriously loud...i was sooooooooooooo excited for her)

..too many people seeing me undressed

..too many people are seeing me in my knickers (or less) since ive been injured..5 people in the last few days...2 physios today,poor Em, plus MT...actually thats only 4..itd be good if a maths teacher could count!!!

anyway a GREAT DAY TODAY... although i realised the following things
a)im too immmature to be an adult!!!
b)the knickers thing..see above
c)my aunty is soo nice..she even tells me i dont need to lose weight ...(I do!!!), she takes me out to lunch and wont even let me pay for lunch or the physio treatment
d)I am about to be on the OTHER side of this injury
anyway...
went to the physio today..absolutely appalled by my bruising..i have to relearn what pain is good and what is bad..brown bruising ok,,,blue apparently not..(is the bruising worse..check the very yukky white leg at the end and decide yourself)
my fault cos MT kept saying tell me if the pain is bad... but my threshold is skewed cos i seriously have a LOT of accidents

anyway physio said she had made my sessions hard(and i had cut some back(so she was quite happy with me,,,and said my core strength had improved dramatically..and she was giving me really hard exercises that she doesnt normally give people but im an athlete????????? ummmm i dont think im an athlete...what is an athlete?????
you should have seen the scoffing look i coppped when i asked if i could do squash drills(just driving against the wall)I felt like i was 5 and being told off...naughty jojo!the same look when i told her i did a cycle session...oopsies

she is giving me FREE REIN with my training.....woo hoo..
and then i thought hang on..what if i go crazy...so i told her what i thought that might mean...and then she moderated me somehwat so i now know what i can do..speed work(semi) is on the cards!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!i will be allowed to do some 4min/km 200m reps(still slower than pre injury)..Im a VERY EXCITED LITTLE pussycat..that wont be until the end of next week
oh yeah forgot..the MT yesterday said that my back was soooooooo tight last week that she was surprised that I could even BEND...LOL...and today physio is like WHOA..your back is TIGHT!!!!!!!imagine if she had seen it yesterday..pre massage

anyway did a 60 min water session today...think i coverd about 700m-ish (24 laps x about 30m)...the whole time i was thinking about what my next few sessions will be..
and im feeling somehwat fatigued after 9 sessions in 8 days...tomorrow is last session then rest day friday...

seriously excited!ummmmmmmmm did i mnetion that i was excited...
roast vegies for dinner..i am a LUCKY LCKY GAL

oh yeah here are the day 2 bruises(only the left leg)(finally epiladied the lower legs after about 3 weeks!!!!!)

..hard is good

..yep i def like it good and hard...a massage that is of course..mind out of the gutter people!!! gosh!!! im a good girl!!!if its not hard i get too ticklish..even she tickles me sometimes!!!!
having said that I am MAJORLY bruised from said massage..but feel FANTASTIC after it.

..have had a ripper of a day..although ran a little harder than my back is ready for.. the physio had said i could do 7-10 x 400m laps..and even i knew that was 2 much for me... so my plan was this
3laps warm up(6min /km) then 2x400 laps at 2:00(5min/km) then 2x400 at 1:54(4:45min/km) then 2 at either 4;45 pace or 5 min pace depending on how back was

ok..heres what actually transpired
3 laps @ 6 min/km pace....good girl
400m (1:46)..4:25min/km pace...cmon jo too fast
400m (1:50)..4:35 min/km pace..
400m (1:52)..4:40 min/km..thats better
400m (1:54)..4:45 min/km
and back a little tight..i ummed and aah-ed about whether to do another and decided i would but slow it down
400m (1:58)..4:55min/km pace..and 2 lap walking cooldown as back quite tight..and i knew no way could i manage another one without placing 2 much strain on back

this was def too hard a session for where im at...having said that..i wasnt sprinting..and i didnt feel like i was running that fast.. it is still 20s slower for 400 than i do them on the track in training (although it is grass as well)surprised at how fatigued i felt at the end..

..then a REALLY hard pool session with Em
2 sets of 6x2:30 hard with 30 sec recovery... found it sooooooo hard today.and the bandaid that kept threatening me wasnt helping...eeeeeyuk..and yes Em i woulda found my car all by myself :)

then straight to the MT for some pummelling..the bruises are huge..on both legs but ill pop one up of the left..be interesting to see if they are better or worse tomorrow..she looked a bit perturbed at first and is like...ummmmmm..thats ummmmmm..and im like..dont worry im a bruiser..those cups on my ITB... yowsers!!!!!! shw worked on me for 1 and 3/4 hours!!!!! i was sooo relaxed it was like....well i wont go any further but i was very very relaxed :)

and now off to dinner with gfs... what a fabbo day...aaaaaaaah life is good

..ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

well it all makes sense now...
theres always one day a month where i run and feel like crap..and then the next day its like...righttttttttttttt
im just crap at paying attention to when that's supposed to be..well actually its my body thats crap..it has no idea of correct aka normal timings are..

anyway..was at the doctor today..why do they even bother to make appointments..they dont even come close to being on time.. she was a lovely lady too..my usual lady only works two days a week so it was good to find another lady who was quite good.. no worries....

how happy am I that Em is back...HUGELY.. I can tell you.. it made water running sooooooooooooooo much better today.. welcome back matey..
3 sets of 7 x 90s hard with 30 s recovery.. knee still a little sore but not too bad


and ive also noticed this year....that my taste in men has definitely changed...
and im still just as shallow as i used to be....

...i guess i'll just have to live with my shallowness..cos its worked soooooooooo well for me so far...LOL

..naughty naughty little jojo

..and no im not going to elaborate ...lol

ive decided i must be a little perverse..i deliberately hint at things cos i know it drives sara nuts!anyway the lady next door came and knocked to see if there were letters for her in our box since we hadnt cleared it..i went and checked and im like...are you expecting a letter..no..ok well we just didnt check our box on friday..she has a bit of OCD about letters i think..she checks about 15 times a day..but me being me..im automatically thinking maybe should start leave them in there constantly know cos i know it freaks her out ;) as i said i think im a little mean..maybe i just dont get to play as often as i like :)

i had the run from hell today...Em i was thinking of you and thinking how much you would love to be out there..and im saying to myself..jojo you should be loving it ..every jog.. nup..did not enjoy one step of it... sore knee..and pretty dehydrated managed 18.5 mins stop for drink 7.5 mins stop 4 mins stop drink and be an all round sooky la la

..however i will back that up with..is there ever a good time for tequila shots...the answer to that miss jo is NO..its certainly not after midnight!!!!! i could taste tequila the whole run.....errrrrrggggggh... dont get me wrong i wasnt hungover..didnt get sozzled

;lunch with sara today was good..burger n chips...mmmmm how decadent

and im in a very good mood today ..quite relaxed now..my nanna nap perked me up no end... it all happy campers..and still 2weeks hols... triple yay