Week 36

In which we have our final baby shower, the weather starts to turn around, and my sucky work week culminates with buying tickets to the wrong damn Twins game! :(

4/21/13 - Up in Fargo we're getting ready for our last baby shower so I go for a run outside.  Not warm, but not really cold either.  Definitely windy.  Ran 6.0 and did not like it!  Shower went well, lots of Jess's family showed up from each side and everything went very well :)  Thank you to Cheryl and Tara for putting this on!!

4/22/13 - Jess and I are relaxing at home after coming back from Fargo, I hit the gym and ran 8.5.  Rainy out but supposed to get nicer later this week.  Not holding our breath though.

4/23/13 - Well, work is sucking.  A lot of emphasis on our holiday program is making life less than fun for me.  Ran 4.25 & lift.

4/24/13 - Seriously, this holiday thing is making me uber anger.  SO much work for so little payout.  Got up early and was at the gym by 6:30 so I could get that out of the way and spend the morning making 'must have' mockups.  Ran 10.5

4/25/13 - Cousin Hobbes's (Jaimi) birthday!  Weekend forecast still looks awesome (70's) so I bought tickets to Sat Twins game for me and Jess! :)  Ran 4.25 & lift

4/26/13 - I am an idiot!  Jess got home last night and looked at the tickets to realize I bought them for LAST NIGHT's game!!  $50 down the drain, yay!  On the plus side we can now meet up with Riz, Natalia, Jay, & Ally for Sunday's game.  Got up early again and ran 11 before work.  Gorgeous out so Jess and I sat on the beach and had a picnic :)

4/27/13 - Jess wakes up and wants a brat for breakfast but we have to get to the State Fair Grounds for a consignment sale before stuff is gone!  Unfortunately we but didn't find anything (it was all kinda dingy), but there was a food stand there so she got her brat! Then we went to the Farmer's Market (which was sparse due to the weak weather this year so far) and did some grilling at home.  I ran 4.5 to close out the week, then roasted a chicken for dinner and we went to Cold Stone Creamery at night for some ice cream and to enjoy the outdoors some more :)

Week total: 49!

Week 35

4/14/13 - Baby shower!  Thank you SO MUCH to all our friends who came out in the terrible freezing rain/sleet to help us celebrate!  Amee, Sarah B, Sarah O, Kellie, and Karen all put on a great event with excellent food (the chicken lasagna was amazing!), plenty of drinks, and non-lame games!!


Totally lost track of time and couldn't run til after the shower so only ran 1 in the freezing rain.  It sucked.

4/15/13 - First day biking back to work after the crash!  Went well, no incidents, just crazy windy! Ran 10 on the treadmill, wanted to go for 10.5 to make up for the 1 yesterday but no dice.

4/16/13 - Ran 4.75 + lift, adding the .5 I wanted for yesterday.

4/17/13 - Ran 10.5

4/18/13 - Ran 4.5  + lift

4/19/13 - Ran 10.5

4/20/13 - Trip to Fargo for our last Baby shower, woo!!  Ran 4.5 in the gym up there to get a week total of 45!

Week total - 45!

Week 34

4/7/13 - Ran 1.5 to the Theodore Wirth playground, did some pullups, ran around the lake there 1.5, did some more pullups, ran 1.5 home.  Total 4.5  Tired - YES!

Then met Julie, Chad, Courtney, Chris, Merrin, and John out for breakfast at Famous Daves.  Best wings ever! Though it took them an hour to seat us!

4/8/13 - Left my wallet in the car!  Searched the entire house for any kind of cash and only came up with $1.70.  Guess I'm working from home today.  Ran 9.0 outside.  Still really sweaty after runs but getting better and my chest is hurting less.

4//9/13 - Did some lifting but tired on running.  Made it 3.25, though it was a struggle.

4/10/13 - OMG first run since the accident that wasn't terrible!  Ran 10.25 while watching Being Human (US version) and it went well and I feel not completely wiped out after!

4/11/13- Back to normal again!  Ran 4.25 + lift!

4/12/13 - At the gym by 6:45 cause Jess has to work early, the weather sucks, and she's been giving me rides to work. Ran 10.5, feel great!

4/13/13 - Ran 4, then had a great breakfast at the Low Brow with Ally, Jay, Clint, and Amee!  Great to be out with people and not recovering!  Delicious pancakes!  Was going to get the Elvis sandwich but they use Skippy PB so pass.  Then we went to Houlihan's for dinner and Dave & Buster's after for Reed's 27th birthday!  Who knew D&B was the place to be on a Sat night?
Happy Birthday Reed!

Week total 45.75!

Week 33 - Running again

So I'm finally running again after 8 days off to recover from my bike crash and what a difference a week makes!

4/2/13 - So, no idea what's in store for me today as I just spent 8 days not running after 202 straight days of running.  Figured I should start slow.  Did some lifting and was able to run 3.25.

4/3/13 -  Was able to run 8.25 (i.e. 1 hour) but it feels tough.  Can't hardly focus on anything except running (i.e. unable to watch a show on my tablet)

4/4/13 - Lifted and able to run 4.25, feel a little better.

4/5/13 - Ran 8.5 but it's still more effort than it had been.  Also I'm sweating like a demon post running which had gone away.  It's like I was capable and hyper efficient and now I'm just capable.

4/6/13 - Ran outside, 6.65 and it's still difficult.  My chest hurts more than normal and I'm still sweating like crazy but at least I'm out there.

Truncated week total: 30.90.  Not too bad for a short week post recover.

Week 33 - CRASH!!!

3/24/13 - Went for a run outside, 4.25

3/25/13 - BIKE CRASH!! On my way in to work my chain slipped off right by the Walker, caught, and I got thrown.  I landed on my face pretty bad. Luckily some construction workers saw me go down, called the ambulance, and even held my bike at their site until I could come back for it!

They took me to the HCMC ED (Emergency Department, not a room), and after the CT scan showed nothing abnormal I got stiches above my eye, under my eye, next to my eye, on my lip and inside my mouth. Also they reset my broken nose which hurt like hell even with being numbed. Doc did a great job on the stitches though.

Jess was a little freaked out to get a call from the hospital saying 'your husband's been in an accident', but was much relieved to find me messed up but ok.  I am super lucky I didn't break my orbital bone, clavicle, teeth, or anything in my head!

Fun story of the day, my heart rate was 40 when they brought me in, which I assured them was normal.  Then when I was waiting in a room for stitching and such they had to recalibrate the machine to not alarm as my resting rate was about 33 and if I dozed at all it'd dip to 29 and I'd have to move my legs to keep the alarm from going off.  Doc said he'd never seen a normal heart rate that low :)

Sadly this broke my uninterrupted streak of running.  I spent the rest of the week working from home and recovering.  I was on a liquid diet for 5 of the days cause it hurt too much to open my mouth and that was terrible!

I was able to start running again 4/2/13.  I'm continuing as if nothing happened and adding 8 days on at the end.

Thank god I had these on!!

Week 32

3/17/13 - Happy St. Patrick's Day!  My god it's cold outside! 23, feels like 9, 15 mph wind.  Damnit we were playing bags in the 70's last year! Ran 3 to get my bike and then biked 3 back home.  Jess and I went to the James J Hill House, which was interesting. We were thinking of Downton Abby the whole time. I really want to go back for the Nooks & Crannies tour too.  Corned beef and cabbage for dinner!

3/18/13 - Wanted to run more but still tired from the race.  Ran 5.0

3/19/13 - Ran 4.25 + lift

3/20/13 - Feeling better, ran the full 10.25

3/21/13 - Ran 4.25 + lift

3/22/13 - Ran 10.25

3/23/13 - Jess and Amee are having brunch so I went to the gym.  Ran 4.25 + lift

Week total 41.25!