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Ran with Erin today. Its her Birthday..woo hoo!! She's the big 33. {a baby still} I remember when I was 33 a long time ago. Anyway, run was hard. We were worn out from the week of late nights, early mornings and eating like shiz. Get High.

Running in Hell again. Hot, windy, dry and slow. Saw Stacie at the top of NC and chatted for a bit. Erin was running slow today, she is having pain in her hips and was tired. I went through hours of detox from diet coke and eating crappy yesterday and I felt like I had the flu. I was literally sick. I don't know what was going on but I was in a foggy achy blur all day long. Felt better this morning. Hoping most of the garbage is out of me and I will feel better today. Get High.

Ran sprint intervals up NC with Erin. She is AWESOME at the sprints! It was all I had to keep up with her! Pretty cool. Then we ran normal down NC where she fell behind again. But we both felt better today than yesterday. I didn't have a diet coke all day yesterday, felt pretty good too so that's good. Day by day..no promises. Actually at this point, its still hour by hour. I was reading about the withdrawl from DC and it turns out its the aspertame withdrawl that makes you nauseous not the caffeine. That's pretty gross. So my body is having a big reaction to not having a chemical in it. Awesome. Too bad it tastes so damn good. Then again, so does alcohol. And once upon a time, so did cigarettes..so its all relative. I'm sure I'll get back on it bc I never last, but I just need to be better. Healthier. Stonger. Awesomer. Also I saw pictures of myself from Bear Lake in a swimsuit and I was a little bugged with myself to say the least. 
Anyway..rambling..Have a Fun 4th of July! God Bless the USA!! Good luck on your 5k's!! GET HIGH MY FRIENDS!!

Woke up at 4:45 a.m. and had a text from Erin saying that she was up all night with a sick baby and wasn't coming. Stacie was planning on going with us and I was soo glad. So Stacie and I ran around the hood, up NC up and around over to Dimple Dell and down into Draper. She had to do 17 and I was doing 15 so when we got to Draper she took off on the trail and I ran along 1300 E. Then Scott picked me up and then we went to pick up Stacie on Fort St. I was so glad to be running with Stacie. It's really nice to run with someone that is consistently strong. And although we ran slow, she pushed me and it was nice. Thank you again Stacie. It was fun to talk to you and run with you again. My feet and butt hurt but it feels good. GET HIGH!

woke up sick. headache, achy muscles. I tried running, got up the street and had to turn around for the bathroom. Took some advil and laid back down for an hour. Feel better now but still have a headache. It will be all better tomorrow.

Ran alone. Around the hood, up NC, past buffalo, up Highland and home. Ran slow, still a bit hungover from yesterdays headache but so much better. I hate those days so bad. Glad its over. Get High

Ran with Erin. Both of us felt nauseous so we walked, sprinted, jogged, sprinted, walked some more. Just tried to get through it mostly. get High

Okay. What is the deal? I can't get out of my head!! And I'm really starting to question the quitting diet coke thing. I haven't been able to really wake up and have energy for two weeks now and I feel like its been one thing after another since I couldn't run for those two weeks. Today I ran at an 11:02 pace. wth?? I feel like everything is hard. I feel like I'm a beginner again and I'm breathing hard and my body feels run down and no matter what I can't get the negative out of my head. I'm really trying to be positive! I even say prayers as I'm running that I can have a better stronger attitude and then I try to distract my thoughts and talk to Erin but the whole time I'm thinking "this is hard. how am I ever going to run another marathon..and how am I ever going to beat my 5 hours and thirty minutes of crap time I had last time if I can't even run a freaking 6 miler @ a10 min pace. Anyway, sorry to complain. Just need to vent. Get High 

Ran with Erin and her friend Jen for part of the run. Saw Stacie at the top of NC, she scared the crap out of me, then we all ran the LaCaille trail. Stacie went right up to 94th and we turned around and went back the way we came. Turned out to be exactly 7 when I turned on my street. 
I almost tripped again on the trail coming back down, I had to catch my self and my heart dropped as I launched forward. I was thinking "Please not again!!" It did pull my piriformis a bit but not too bad. So I walked for a second and had to fix my shoe and that's where I lost Erin and Jen. But I was happy to be running alone actually. I need to fix my head and Its hard to do when there is pressure of another person there. I needed to be alone with my thoughts. Tomorrow I think I need to do speed work. Work in some sprints. I need to fix my eating and I need to lose 20 lbs. Then I might be faster. That's a big MIGHT. Get High

Ran to the light and then sprints all the way up NC with short walking recovery in between. That is a good way to get that annoying street over with. Then ran normal back down to home. Felt better today. Still moving pretty slow but it was better. The sprints woke my body up a little bit I think. Now hopefully I don't spend the day in bed with headaches AGAIN. It can't be the diet coke still. There has to be something else going on with me. Wish I knew what..Here's to a better day. Get High!

Ouch. Went to the Brighton Cheer fundraiser premier of The Dark Knight for Stacie's daughter and went to bed at 1:00am. Woke up at 4:00 am to my son who felt sick and then my alarm went off at 4:30 am to run. So 3 hours sleep. Ran with Stacie and Erin. We were all slow and not worrying about speed. Stacie was consistent but slow with us and she talked my ear off the whole time so that was perfect. At the end Erin and her sped up and I called Scott to come get us. So I knew they were going to be done before me. It was hard to finish bc it was getting so hot and my feet were killing me. Glad its done!!! WAY better than last week. Thanks Stacie for going with us. I needed you there. Get High

three around our campground and then up the Mirror lake Highway. And since I now associate every steep hill with altitude like being at Ragnar..naturally that's where my thoughts went. It was hard and I was tired. Then I got back to camp and I was freezing for like two hours from the sweat and no way to shower. I bet I smelled nice too. So I just went fishing and covered it with the smell of fish guts and campfire. Beautiful. Get high. 

This week I'm supposed to run 20 on Friday but I have somewhere to be in the morning so I can't. Then Saturday I have a fundraiser 5k I have to be at. So My 20 is happening next week. I have been all stressed about trying to fit it all in this week and I came to the conclusion with Scott that It will wait until next week. Somethings are just having to come first this week over running and it is what it is. I can't worry my little brain about it. Life Happens and I'm a mommy.  

5 crap miles. If you look up the word "inconsistent" in the dictionary it will say "Lysa"

Well at least the sky was amazing. There was a rainbow to the South and orange clouds over the mountains. Then when I was finishing it started to rain big drops. Awesome.

Ran the Children of the Earth 5k. There were so many teams with people with medical problems and sad stories. Among the teams was 'TEAM SUPERHERO GAGE" 
Gage is doing so well and it was a little overwhelming to have him be included in this event. We almost felt guilty about it BECAUSE he is such a little rockstar. So many people out there that are struggling and have sad stories. I FREAKING LOVE being part of events like this though. There is an energy unlike anything else in the air. People are all there out of love and you can feel it to your very core. I think I had been there 5 minutes when the tears started. Just looking at the T-shirts and people's signs on their backs and reading their stories. I Love it. All of it. I want to be more involved. There is just nothing else like it.

As far as the run goes, Senekah stayed with me the whole time. I wasn't going in looking for a PR I didn't even know if I would run it or just walk with the group. But Sen and I ran together the whole time. She had to walk a few times but she did so GREAT! I was really proud of her. We finished in 33 minutes and she was trashed. But really proud of herself. It was a lot of fun to share that with her.

 When I crossed the finish, I found my family that hadn't run and Scott who had finished in 25 min. and then waited for Gretch, Troy, my mom, Gage and others to come in. I got impatient and ran back through the course to find them and at the very end, Gage wanted to get out of the stroller and cross the finish line. I hurried and got out my phone to take a pic. When he ran across Gretchen and I were there with him and we both started to cry. I know we had the same thoughts at the same time as to how far he has come. Neither of us could hold back the tears.

Then we waited and waited for Troy and Reese to come across and again I got impatient and ran back to find them. I never found them so I turned around and came back. Turns out they cut across somewhere to finish bc Reese was done.

Anyway, I love the high that comes from being involved in a cause that actually helps other people. I love to see the camraderie of people pulling together for everyone else. The hugs, tears, laughter and sense of  heartfelt caring for each other that bonds you with complete strangers. It's beautiful.

Get High.  

I feel like I'm in worse shape now than when I started training. I am running sooooooooooo sllllloooooooooooww and its bugging me. I will never beat my crap marathon time at this rate. Whatever. It doesn't matter right? Bc one day I will die. And I won't care anymore when I look back what time I did it in. I will only care about the fact that I did it. Went alone today bc Erin is out of town all week. Kind of nice to just hit snooze a few times and not be in a hurry to meet someone. Nice to be in my own head bc I was trying to fix it the whole time. Whatever. Beautiful morning, lots of people out. Get High

Found some energy today! Hooray! I felt good so I decided to run the parks and get hills in. Ran down to Falcon and around the park and back up. Then over to Flat Iron x3. By the third hill I was losing steam big time but that was mile 6 so I ran Piper back home. Had to run up Glider to make it 7 but I was just happy I felt more normal today than I have in a very long time. {hope it lasts} Get High