Slackersauce

Left at 4:40 again. Did the same route as last time except we ran along 13th after the round-about to the end and then turned back around and ran for 10 more min. I say 10 min. bc I left my freaking garmin at home!! aaahhhhh! I felt so naked. But I knew where 8.5 was so I think we did a pretty good job at making it 12 without knowing for positive.  Pretty uneventful run until the end where my EPL {emergency poo light} went on. I had to run to the bushes!! That has NEVER happened to me before and I debated putting it on the blog. TMI reasons. But I also feel it to be a right of passage as a runner. Maybe I'm wrong in that but it seems like it should get the same recognition as losing your first toenail.

Anyway..Sorry about this entry. Get High anyway..its all good.  

My lower back has been hurting for over a week now but I woke up on Saturday unable to even move. I felt paralyzed in my bed. With help I got up, took a lortab and had to get ready for a funeral. As the day went on I was able to move better and better so I thought I would feel better on Sunday. On Sunday I woke up and it was worse. I was able to make it into the bathroom but at one point I thought I would be stuck in there. I literally couldn't take a step bc it hurt so bad to make any movement. My torso is in the shape of a "C" it looks detatched from my hips. I'm going to the chiropractor in a few hours and hopefully he can fix me. I have hurt like this before but its been a long time.
MY theory..I had the BT injuries that hurt in my hamstrings and piriformis muscles. Maybe I was compensating one way or another while running to not feel those injuries and in return have been slowly messing up my back. IDK. Maybe I'm wrong. Should be interesting what the chiro says. Get High for me my friends! I will spend the day high on lortab again. {not as cool} 

Chiropractor: helped. I felt great when I left there, now I'm feeling tight again. He recommended swimming. Doing the stroke that you look like you have frog legs {don't know the name of it} said its the best way to strengthen my piriformis and core. Said I will be back to running in no time but to stick with swimming for a few days and see what happens. Supposed to go back on Wed. to see him again for another adjustment. He did some shock thing on my back for 30 min to loosen, adjusted my back, neck and feet. Was nice. 

Went to swim laps at Alta Canyon. Swam for 30 to 40 min. I got a kick board bc it was hurting my back and just did the dolphin and the frog back and forth. Last lap I ran the length of the pool. That felt good too. It felt really good, I liked it. Felt good to breathe and get my heart rate up. I'll be going again tomorrow as long as its not raining. Get High

Swimming again. Erin ditched. There was one other lady there and we started talking. She's a runner also and had a stress fracture. She said she spent all last week sitting in a chair and couldn't take it anymore so she started swimming this week and loves it! Anyway, kind of fun. It's nice to be able to do something that isn't hard on your body at all but still works you. It was a little bit chilly and took some bravery to enter the pool, but once I had swam one lap, I was warm. Then it took bravery to get out of the pool. Get High!

running attempt fail. As soon as I started running I felt almost like a heavy weight bearing down on my lower back, pain started shooting into my piriformis and hamstrings. So I walked/ran. I tried to run as much as I could, I thought that if I could warm up I wouldn't feel it anymore but I could never last long enough. I don't know what I'm going to do. I honestly thought I would go out today and feel great and it would be over. I'm discouraged now for sure. I'm supposed to do at least 30 to 32 miles next week and I don't feel good about missing another week. I will stretch all day and try again tomorrow. Get High my friends bc I think I might cry. 

Guesstimating about a 10 mile bike ride. I tried to work it on hills so I went up 8600 S 4x and up NC and back down, around the hood. NC is a lot easier on a bike that's for sure. Felt good to get my heart rate up and breathe. I'm not very comfortable on a bike. I mean as far as traffic, lights etc. I feel much more at home running. But it was nice. I'm grateful I'm able to do other things and have a bike etc to be able to do them, I just miss running. This morning I had a feel sorry for myself cry pit party for a few minutes as I was getting clothes on to go on the bike ride. But mostly bc my back hurt more today than it has in a few days and that kind of put me over the edge a little bit. I'm really trying to be positive but really I just want to cry some more./ going to do some lunges and squats for strengthening. 

Sorry for the whining, I just need to vent I guess.

GO GET HIGH FOR ME!!! REALLY REALLY REALLY HIGH!!! {maybe I will feel your energies.} 

Can I just say the F word?? Does anyone have a problem with that?? I woke up today to go on a long bike ride and my eye was swollen shut. I can't open it. Now I'm going to insta-care to get medicine. I'm not going to cry. I'm going to punch something. When I come back to running {probably next week} just to be completely sure, I will come back with a vengeance. GET HIGH!

Edit: dead lifts x3 sets/ lungesx3/plank x3/squats x3

Better watch out, I'm getting so tough I'll kick all your arses! ;) 

10 mile bike ride. I made it count. Rode up 8600 3x up NC down AC up Highland, around hood, down Falcon then Up Falcon. So I felt like I pushed it. The last time up 8600 before home, I tried to ride it as fast as I could in a harder gear. I was breathing really hard so that felt great. Get High

Uno..Dos..TRES! Decided to give it a go today, I saw Stacie when I was at .6 and almost got choked up when I told her that was a lot further than I made it last time I went out. {last Fri} It just felt so good. Right after I left her, my music died but I didn't care, I was only out there to see if I could do it. At about 1.6 I walked a little, I could feel it in my back the whole time but I was starting to feel it in my piriformis again and I don't want to be stupid. {until next week} Then I found a fire hydrant and stopped & peed. just seeing if you're paying attention. really I stopped and stretched, then ran home. I was being extra cautious but man it felt good. Get High!!

plank x3 / lunges x3 / squats x3 / dead lifts x3 

Felt pretty good, my butt hurt the whole time, my back felt better and my hamstrings only hurt a little so definite improvement. I don't know what I'll do as far as mileage this week, I'll just go by feel for now and still do some cross training. Felt good to be back running though and in that state of mind. In my mind I am stronger than I am..I mean like last night I couldn't wait to get up and run and was confident it would be so awesome, and then I get out there and it hurts and its hard. Oh well, at least I can run again. Get High

plank x3, lunges x3 squats x3, deadlifts x3 

It was so much cooler today outside but the run was hard. I felt like I was barely moving and it was extra hard. I'm going to a place called muscle works today in Lehi that my cousin told me about. He is a runner and goes there everytime he's injured, he said they work miracles. I think its worth a try. He told me to take some kind of pain meds before bc he said it hurts so bad that I will have tears but worth it in the end. Cross my fingers this is true. I feel like such a wimp, I think a lot of my injury is fear of the injury itself bc of the marathon training. Not that is doesn't hurt, bc it does. But I want to run the marathon and I'm so afraid that if I don't fix whatever this is that I will miss out. Chances of that happening are probably slim but it still scares me. 

p.s. why do I WANT to run the marathon? Even as I type that I shake my head. I have an runner girl on one shoulder and a couch potato on the other. Couch potato is trying to beat up runner girl but runner girl has her cape on and she's not takin' that shiz. Then couch potato is like "whaaaa? you crazy girl." 

Anyway, sorry about the tangent. Get High.  

Easy 5. I stayed with Erin, or she stayed with me. Either way. It was good. Felt good. Just chatted and chilled. Get High.

Today was like running in Hell. Hot and Windy. I felt like I fought to go forward and was barely moving. We went a different way today just for a change of scenery but there were a lot more hills. Went down 20th to Viscounti over to Creek, down Creek around some hood and then up Creek to the country club up Robidoux to AC and up Highland to home. Maybe the hills wouldn't have seemed so brutal if it didn't have the hot hellish head wind. What doesn't kill you makes yous stronger. Get High.

Plank x3