..whew rest day and a busy busy busy week

...my gosh, how tired i am..
..i did a water running set yesterday..worked very very hard too! teh session was going to be 600 in 2:15 and 2x400@81 and 2x300 @60 and 4x200@44s so i worked as hard as i could during this and was huffing and puffing as much as i could ..allup including recovery was about35 mins so will count as about 4kms(stu has told me to count running as kms
..oh and 144kms training +25kms water runing + 9kms racing .. so 178km for jan :) did i mention that already..so tired i dont know what ive already said
..and then i went over to my friend's house and we went and saw Atonement which was ok, but it wasnt the best movie i have ever seen... and boy oh boy oh noy, was i tired this morn... getting up at 5:30 will do that to you eek!!!!
i think tomorrows session will be in the pool again as advised by ML(and stu) and then back on the real ground on sunday...the pain in my leg has dissipated along with my stress levels as a result...
..oh and jh...apparently i dont know how to get dressed either.... this morning when i went ot the toilet i noticed my shirt was inside out(fortunately before classes started) and i had a slight wardrobe malfunction(lol) when one of my buttons came undone(which i didnt know until i was walking somehwere and then i had an uh-oh how long has that been undone.... it wasnt gaping but.. i guess since there were no little giggling boys it mustnt have been too bad
.. anyway so a bit ...you know...having a fat day...
..i do have good classes..and most of the day was great..doing hwk tonight and staying in...

...hmmm thats not exactly good news

//ok// so i have been mentioning how unhappy i have been about my leg pain..which is unfortunately too reminiscent of the referred pain immediately preceding the loss of foot function(drop foot as my aunt called it)
i sent stu an email again saying maybe i should hit the pool instead of running, to which he readily agreed..
was struggling to fit in a run before physio but jumped in the pool and felt like i worked at the appropriate rate(i am getting better at this)..the leg pain has been diminished a bit today//although tonight i am having some(wish i could lie and say i wasnt)
..physio
saw my aunt.. who is quite concerned about the leg pain..its not anywhere near what it was when i initially had the severe pain and couldnt even drive for 5 mins..but im pretty sure it is back related.. apparently i am quite sore in the L4/L5 region(again) and the L3 which is new but may be compensating or as my aunt said..like a bike chain can get stiff..lol
..anyway she is managing me until the shield final.. has said she would probably like to take me off running now... and has mentioned that she may enforce a break after shield..and has said she REALLY doesnt want me to do hammer at the shield and should avoid at all costs..which would leave a gap in my team but maybe it is necessary
..she was talking 6 weeks break but i commented i had racing in march...hmmm i offered water running for a while and then just racing but she wasnt impressed /..as in her words..racing is the problem(for the achilles)
..we discussed achilles in depth and decided (together..lol) that there had been progression and whilst really sore from racing.... it is recovering quicker....
one of my biggest problems this week is that i wore flats for my back first 3 days (which puts extra strain on achilles) and when i wore heels today its harder on my back .... :(
the only time i was very concerned was when she said ...well we dont want you to have drop foot(this was when my foot just kinda hung there limp and i couldnt control it) permanently :( surely that cant happen...sigh..maybe she is scare mongering
..anyway//looks like an MRI is the next step..and possibly some special patches...
..so it wasnt exactly a fantastic session(but she is very cautious..... so maybe its not all that bad)

pool at least tomorrow and probably saturday..stu's=well you cant shift tomorrows session into the pool cos its 200m's(he wasnt telling me i had to run) im going to have to discuss with him what session to do in pool cos i do want to do a session :( :(
..so looks like this little black duck is going to be splashing around again(although i have a weeks scheduled rest after shield final so MAYBE back and achilles will improve heaps... and yes i did say that to ML!) she said...maybe
...oh and jh i pmsl at your comment about stu yesterday..hopefully he will read it ;)

..anyway..trying not to be 2 stressed but cant say im not somewhat dismayed/stressed
..at least work wise i REALLY felt back in the swing today..and when the thought comes into your head..im doing what im supposed to be doing(and i really enjoy it) well then you sure are one lucky gal...

..tuckered out little jojo

..why so tuckered out... well that would be twofold... not enough sleep... but well that is my own fault
anyway still having some pain in my leg(which reminds me of the referred leg pain) so am hoping its nothing more than paranoia.still have function in my foot so thats a very good sign :) but was reluctant to do the 6x1kms @4:10 min/km pace stu had set for me given the circumstances... so i went water running ... and i worked way hard for 4:10 min intervals... kept reminding myself to push and work hard..and i was puffing hard at the end of each set :)
..boyoboy was i hungry at the end of it
..oh and the great new snack that i am addicted to....raw beans... omg they are so crispy and crunchy -its like eating lollies... lol ok only a barely eats lollies person like me would say that!!! but they are awesome
..so the equivalent of 8.5kms today of the water running

..and the boy is definitely in the good books-lol..after being somewhat put out after he was mean in my dreams... its so weird when you have dreams and people are mean and its difficult to not be upset with them... although i have to say i think i am the biggest clam in the history of the world sometimes(and given im a real talker!!.. its a bit of an anomoly..lol)

glad i did the water running.... i have been sooo stressed about this leg pain... i have been aware of it 10 or more times during the day and heaps of times last night.. and i feel very relaxed after running and i put the vaseline on my VERY bad chafing from sunday and it was all good..was a bit concerned as i had 2x8cm chafe marks.. very pretty..eh.. how do the boys resist me....???? lol... oh thats right its my VERY annoying personality!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
seeing my aunt(physio) tomorrow so hopefully she can also get my achilles back on track

...hmmm lifes no fun at the moment

..soooooo i lasted the whole weekend..no alcohol...ho hum... people arent as funny...lol... what a little alco i am~~~~~~~~~~~~~
..i succumbed and had a coke zero- i was very silly and had a cold one in hte fridge= it only took a minute of lapse....bugger
..work today was busy....
..and i had a horrible horrib le dream where 'my friend'was really not very nice to me.. here's the heads up boys..if youre mean to a girl in a dream...she can be a little put out with you even tho she knows you didnt do anything.... lol...
then went running... omg th leggies were like lead.. 30mins slow..but was NOT easy at all... and after 25 mins the back was very very sore..so stopped and stretched and continued..... then i did lunges, squats(and surprisingly my back was sore during these),pushups(30) and some reverse back thingies, and 2x45s planks and 2x30 side planks..............and now im almost having a panic attack..ummmmmm im having some pain in my leg...almost like the referred pain i got when the back was really bad..... im trying to tell myself its not that...but im feeling very very stressed..last time it got worse over the course of a day or two.... :(

not happy

...good grief jojo...how do you manage it..time and time again?

...good grief jojo...how do you manage it..time and time again?
..hmmmm......
ok lets do running first so people like my coach dont have to read the whole 'saga' post
...was supposed to do 60-75mins running today... woke up and well to put it nicely my achilles was extremely sore(even walking) and my back..well it is kinda hating me right now for doing hammer .. put more succinnctly.... my body could not possibly have managed a run(i tried in my house and ummmmm it wasnt going to cope)
..so water running it was... i was feeling pretty fatigued for the last 40 mins or so... did 75mins.. arms were tired too... im amazed at how tired i was after 2 track events and 2 field events..maybe the sun had something to do with it.....

...ok so then i decided i deserved to go shopping and buy myself a present for my RPB 800m and pb's in 400m and shot and hammer..lol
..stopped at the bank...went to lunch.. off to big w(to buy some undies as ummm i kinda had to go commando as i 4got to take undies to the pool) and some mascara(what kind of girl am i when i dont have any??????) get to the checkout...ummmmmmm no walllet in my bag.... and stu has told me on several occasions that i walk around with my bag open and that it could fall out or someone could take it...so i was a bit paranoid.. went back to where i bought lunch, back to the shop...nope...and im think sh1te im in a shopping centre ...people could be using it immediately(which apparently happened to someone last week at highpoint) so i called both of my banks and cancelled my 2 credit cards and my 2 access cards... i then managed to fin centre management and was speaking to the lady..she said are you ..joanne..yes... keep speaking for a bit... how do you know my name... you gave it to the ladies downstairs..she kept speaking... and im like are you sure my wallet wasnt handed in...no it wasnt.... im pretty sure i didnt give my name to anyone... well you mustve...and then i started thinking maybe i went into a sort of panic mode and forgot???? ok then ..where did i give my name so she directed me.... and you have to picture me looking confused when i went up to the information desk...ummmmmm was i her earlier??? lol.. i lost apurse,... and then i started laughing when they gave it to me(no i hadnt been there) and i explained what she was saying... so i kinda wish i hadnt cancelled my cards..but it was the right thing to do..... i always laugh when they go ..was your pin with your card.... who would do that...seriously?????
..anyway obviously i WAS not meant to be shopping today!!! so happy to have hte purse back.. (but cursing about cancelling cards...nice that there are honste people around :)lucky i had taken a hundred dollars out before i lost it(left in the food court!!!!) so i do have some cash till new cards...lol
..i am one heck of a ditz
..oh and jeg.. im sorry if you misinterpreted what i wrote on ausrun :( was not meant offensively

... woohoo

.. so racing today... i was in the 800 first.. it was VERY funny on the way, i got a phone call from my coach... have you eaten..you're running in 2 and half hours..and make sure you drink 600mls in the next hour..you do have a water bottle dont you.. lol.. its quite cute really...
did my 2km warm up and hte achilles was NOT feeling great...wasnt feeling great when i awoke either... i had alreaady got my friend to tape my back
..it felt windy to me(and other people i spoke to) even though stu reckons it wasnt.. i ran 2:42 which is a pB since i returned to racing... then off to hammer where i did a pb... lol... 13.x and i was going to have a 3rd throw but then my back was feeling a bit niggly so i left it.. then shotput..threw 6.13 which is reasonable for me...not many near that(i was down the bottom of the pile) but saw someone was 6:33 so i aimed to beat that..did a more 'professional' shotput.ie technique and threw 6.39 followed by 6.47 which was a pb... then off to the 400m.. you may remember last week one of my grls beat my time by 0.2.. anyway as i was div2 third fastest ranking, in my team they put me in with the div 1 3rd ranked people and i decide to go out faster..which i did..and then i tried everything i could to catch this girl but just couldnt... i did however run a pb at 68.51 (previous pb 69.27 and seasons best 69.86)stu just came over ,showed me the time and looked a bit smug..he has been telling me for weeks i should be running 68 and i was lazy!!!!!!! so i pb'd(well the 800 was a pb since i was 10) so a pretty good day at the office... my only BUT is that i reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeally wanted to run 2:40 or less in the 800... so pb'd all of my events...thanks stu...getting better at the right end of the season :)
results not out til tomorrow so dont know if we got through to the shield final(which is the biggie) i have a feeling we may have....no progress scores

..on fri night went out and had an absolutely lovely dinner at seagrass(certainly not cheap) but i did enjoy... although a wine with dinner would have been nice..
okay..i can hardly keep my eyes open.. nighty night

EDIT: results are out.. the coburg women are the new region premiers..that is just 2 awesome woo hoo the overal l SHIELD final in two weeks!!!!!!!!! i really do LIKE racing!!!!!!
our div2 men and div 3 men came 3rd so just missed out, our div 4 mens are 2nd(but only by 3 points) after hte first draft so fingers crossed that remains the same

..take a breath between sentences miss jo

Gosh what a busy little tacker I was yesterday… first day with the boys…my group seem ok…a couple of them will be a little annoying I think…will have to QUASH that pretty early on… its not gonna help my frown line!!!!

And I had had a very late night wed nite(stayed up til 12:30 just frigging around doing nothing in particular, so finished work, had a quick 20 minute nap then off to training.. a light session 10x200m @ 43-45 sec with walk recovery

First rep 41(too fast) then there was one 44 and the rest were 43 and 42..abd for the final one stu usually make sme speed up(but apparently I shouldn’t have done that…oopsies.. so did 38 …legs were a bit heavy
Distance including warm up..drills,cool down..and walk recovery between 200’s was 7.5kms.. then a meeting with Jeremy and phil to work out the teams.. and then I drove over to my friends house…and ummmm got lost and was driving in the opposite direction d’oh so was feeling a bit frazzled by the time I got there.. had a few wines(as this was the last time I could ‘legally’ til the end of feb.. he was being quite nice to me..was even very PC when I asked him if i annoyed him as much as he thought I would… his reply was… you’re a bit hyper..and im just unaccustomed to it…. Lol I am sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much less hyper(don’t even consider myself hyper any more) than I used to be…. Poor christian..i don’t know how he put up with me… he used to send me to the other room sometimes when I was REALLLLLLLLY bad… anyway then this morning I felt SUPER bad cos I accidentally grabbed his bag instead of mine which contained stuff he needed and so then he was inconvenienced..i felt terrible.. I don’t react well when I do something wrong… anyway im sucking up big time and taking him out to dinner to make up for it….lol
1st day with 3 of my classes..and my year 10’s are definitely going to be a handful…. You know youre in for a fun time when head of year…goes hmmmmm yes theyre a bit….. hmmmmm ….lol
And RACING tomorrow..woohoo… we are in the finals
800, 400, hammer(don’t ask) shot put for me.. I will be very annoyed if I don’t get a PB (yeah I don’t expect much of myself do i…a PB 3 weeks in a row shouldn’t be too much to ask!!!!!!!!!
Go burgers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!oh and yes you may not believe me..but i a ALL talked out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!