another 30mins and Happy New Year

yep got up and went for the run this morning.
30mins in blocks of 7.5mins. felt fine but some slight discomfort at the end. not limping or anything-just aware of the left hip(as i have been after hte elliptical)
rather than panic i headed onto the internet to check it out. Apparently it is quite normal to have some slight discomfot when comning back from a stress fracture, i noticed a few articles which described 'phantom pain' or the brain is thinking the pain there and another who said basically you become hyper alert to that site.
Im not overly worried and will mention to Karen. it onl lasted for a bit and wasnt pain.
so wouldve done just over 5kms but it felt better than last time so whilst i was still happy to have my walk breaks, i am getting there-SLOWLY

the PLAN
Stu says i will mainly be training with the 400m runners when i come back with a few slightly longer reps but no more than 600s. Given that i wont really have a base nor time to build one, we are going to probably have to work on shorter sharper.
i will only be racing the 400s and 800s at states this year.

i checked out Ems blog from 2007 to see what was probs next on my program(sorry Em-a bit of stalking there-lol)
after the 4x7.5mins for 3 non consecutive days and then the 3 x10mins(which i start next Tuesday) it appeared she did 4x10min and then 3x15mins and then was pretty much back to doing other speed and stuff, so i have my fingers crossed that im only two-ish weeks away from starting reps.

oh and i bought another Garmin-YES another garmin, as i killed hte last one by leaving it charging for about two weeks

am quite broke i have to say, been overspending a bit
-will need to tighten the belt a bit and hopefully also lose weight so the belt isnt quite so tight.... d'oh

happy New Year
NO resolutions for me, just try to enjoy my running, run some pbs, stay injury free, manage my back as best i can, and of course just enjoy the other things-and maybe buy a doggie :)

..its almost like real running

yep 30 mins of running today. im almost like a real runner! 4 lots of 7.5mins and it felt better than te last few times too. We went to Gellibrand park which is near the airport, nice soft ground small rolling hills but gee it was hot. i just went out and back-stu continued on with his group and apparently he and someone else had to jump over a snake that ACTUALLY reared up a bit, i woulda got BITTEN for sure......................... lol
then went out to lunch, dd my rehab
This is a hard hard exercise.(easier in shoes)
you get up onto you toes and then do squats in front of the mirror. the other one(i cant quite manage) is on one leg, up on the toe and then calf raises. i can do a one legged squat and tehn about 5 heel raises so i am at least getting better i suppose.
My physio always tells me i wont be able to do them properly at first

oh yeah spent ages at the stupor market, i love wandering aimlessly around just looking at EVERYTHING and hten when we cam home stu made us a crushed ice vodka thingy

and past for dinner which is my absolute fave fave dinner -yum yum yum

.hmmmmmm

am back running a bit
last set was 5mins jogging 1 min walking x5. ummm i am SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO fat and unfit its not funny

hip wasnt sore but it wasnt fabbo today so i put hte TENS machine on it which seems to have helped a lot.just paranoid probably

tomorrow is 7.5mins at a go with 1min walk so haf hour f running is becooming more like it.
Have taken a rest day as my leggies were tired. have trained for 5 consecutive days(on the elliptical and bike on hte alternate days
am going on a detox on 2nd jan. have bought the detox thing-i was patient and waited 4 days til the sales so it cost $65 instead of $110
woohoo

and went on a shopping spree yesterday. bought a new doona plus a new quilt set plus new sheet set amongst other things...lol-like i didnt spend enough over xmas

and stu bought me an ipod nano which is pretty cool
and how funny is this.........................
we were at Myer shopping before xmas and stu shoves some perfume under my nose and i went ewwww yuck that's horrible. Turns out thats the one he had bought me so he had to slink off to hte shops the next day and buy a different one. LOL, i felt pretty bad when he told me.
Anyway the Docle and Gabbana one is much nicer

anyway i have lost my blog feeds. Em is the only one i recovered so please send me your feed addresses either on here or through facebook
Ta
hope you all had a great Chrissy and New Year

unfit fatty boombah

well teh good news is it is more running than walking now.
woohoo have progressed to 2min walk/3min jog and thursday will be 1 min walk/4 mi n jog

OMG i am soooooo unfit, the first two jogs i felt shocking -after that it was fine, its like my body has to remember that i even LIKE to run.
Putting on 2and a bit kgs in the down time certainly hasnt helped though-a january detox is definitely on the cards

am on holidays which is making the rehab easier. after my run/walk today, i went to the gym and did 20mins on the bike followed by a weights session with all my rehab exercise about to be done in 5 mins!

im contemplating trying spin, i know i cant stand up or put it in heavy gear but it may make it SLIGHTLY more interesting.
anyway ill see how it goes.
i will post before but happy chrissy if i dont ... and also im having trouble getting into bloglines which is bit of a bugger

..ive been a bad little BLOGGER-ETTE

yep havent been blogging, havent even really been reading them (sorry guys)
been in a bit of a wasteland of work and reports and feeling a bit srry for myself. Been having a terrible ime with the back. slightly better now-althouhg i did have to get up in the middle of the night to take an anti inflamm two nights ago

anyway after 83 days of not running, Karen has given me the all clear to start my program
day 1 and 3
4mins walk, 1 min jog x4 yep a whole 4 mins of jogging.

oh well its a start. and after 83 days off, it is inevitable that all running fitness is gone. Not sure that i couldve run 10mins even had i been allowed.lol

and im allowed to start water running in 5 mins lots(up to 15 mins)

anyway she seems happy and thinks thst i should be back doing repos by the start of feb which still gives me a chance to be back for the state masters(not necessarily runing well however.....)

i will start blogging again and also reading them now that im on holidays..... YAY

baaaarrrrnnnneeeeyyyy......................

not happy with barney at the moment. NEVER am at this time of the year-too much marking/report writing and sitting.
back is being a complete little tot tha is having a tanty
im doing physio once per week, clinical pilates plus wearing my brace not really much more i can do!

the one EXTREMELY positive thing is that my back used to be like this (and worse) all day every day, at least now it just flares up for a week (or 3)
am taped up like a mummy so cant BEND at all at the minnie-im an attractive girl, me

one more week and ill start to regroup-just have to suck it up til then :(

went for a30min stationary bike ride, which helped moderately, cos i could barely move before(been marking from about 8.30 til 5pm)

HAVE BEEN ON the(oops caps lock) elliptical every 2nd day. my psoas(which has been the issue) is okay but my TFL is pretty lousy at the mo

im trying to be in denial about hte back and ignore it, teh wines are helping (now)

...cmon two weeks-hurrrrrrrrrry up

im desperately hoping that karen will say i can run on dec 9th!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i keep forgetting and want to get somehwere quicker so i jog and then i go OOPS not allowed to do that.
but surely thats a good sign cos i forgot and it doesnt hurt

im not about to start going out for runs tho-im being good girl

had a VERY sore back today so i took the day off.never great when its report writing time.(and we went to shepparton on the weeeknd which ois always disastrous for the back-that long in a car ughghgh
anyway was to-ing and fro-ing about the gym(cardio) but decided to go. and then it hurt for a minnie on the bike but it did actually loosen it up.first 17mins 90rpm but couoldnt get the HR over 115.... then got on teh elliptical and had it between 135-140 for 15mins, and then 12 more mins on the bike 90rpm and at least this time hte HR was at about 120-123.
find it hard to ge teh HR up on the bike
anyway it seems to be a but higherif i do it on the elliptical

oh and my aerobic ftness must be improving...... my HR in the morning use to be 48-52 and when i stopped doing ANY exercise it was 60ish, it now seems to have come back down to hte low 50s so that is something i suppose.

did my rehab-which included clams plus other stuff, plus squats on tippy toes-but im not quite there yet so i need the swiss ball to keep me upright
then realised i had clinical pilates tonight-d'oh! she wasnt as tough as last week but it was more leg work so there were a few shakes

if karen doest let me run in 2 weeks i will be GUTTED, im pretty sure she will though. IT HAS BEEN 9 WEEKS ALREADY YOU KNOW (sept 19th) since i last had a run :(