Sometimes I even amaze myself

I can't believe that I just did what I did! First of all I just walked my longest walk yet...6 MILES!! It wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. I did struggle some with the last mile. My left hip decided that it had enough and tried to stop working! It started to feel a little like bone grinding on bone. Ouch! But it wasn't quite so bad that I had to stop. I only had a mile left so I pushed through the pain. Hopefully as the miles increase my hips will adjust and the pain will subside (I've had hip and lower back issues for many years).

Now the more shocking part of this walk, I got up at 7 am!! If you know me, you know that I am NOT a morning person! I don't do mornings well. I hate getting up early. Well, I broke my own 'sleep as late as possible on the weekend' rule and got up for this walk! I knew that to get in my miles I would have to. I didn't get to walk yesterday because it stormed all afternoon & today it is supposed to do the same. So I knew that I had to get up early to walk. The temp would be better too. So I did it!!! I left the family snoozing in their beds and went for it!

It actually worked out well. Temp was okay. Still really hot but not 95! Too early for any of the neighborhood dogs or kids to be out & very little traffic.

I hoped that the fam would sleep right through & they pretty much did. They had only been awake about 15 minutes when I got back and were still in bed. So they still go their sleeping late in so I would be the only one with cranky pants today from getting up too early. LOL! [Hope not]

Now I'll just have to see if this was a fluke or if I can continue with this morning walking thing (well on weekends). I'd have to get up at 5 to do this during the week...ummm...not gonna happen! Ha!

Wow I just walked 6 miles before 9am...amazing! ;-)~

Lightning!

I only got in just over a mile today. I was hoping for a nice long walk. It was ovecast with a nice strong breeze so I was enjoying it. I didn't know it was gonna blow in a huge thunderhead (very quickly)! I was just hitting a mile when I saw a huge lightning bolt. I mean huge! Luckily I was in site of my car so I quickly headed back with 'lightning' speed. Ha! I love watching lightning storms but from a safe location not while walking on a tree lined trail. I'll make up the miles during this nice long holiday weekend! Yea!

Indoor Track

I decided to try the indoor track today because it is so hot outside at noon. I got there and found the lap length sign - 1 lap = 1/10 mile. Oh good grief! It is a very short track! But I walked it anyway. Wow was it ever boring. Even with my music and people watching, the time really dragged on. Oh well, the temp was nice. I did fine until about 4 miles and my feet started hurting. I think the floor is too hard. It felt like I was walking barefoot. So I knew I wouldn't be able to go too much farther but it worked out because for some reason the rec center was closing early today and they kicked us all out at 2. I got in 4.5 miles though. I felt pretty good just a little pain in my feet from the hard floor.

I'm not sure if I will keep using that track or not. It is nice not to get heatstroke when walking but it is so boring and that floor is so hard. I'll see how my feet feel tomorrow before I decide.

BS Sub

I can't lift my arms. Our sub apparently loves to workout arms not that we didn't do legs but man she was brutal on the arms!!

Next week starts the new workout schedule, looks like BS will now be on Wednesday so I'll have to adjust my training schedule [just when I was getting into a routine].

Isn't this supposed to get easier??

maybe when I quit walking at NOON!!!

Barely managed 3.8 miles today, it was soooo hot!!!

First injury

Only got in a mile today... I apparently injured my left calf. Not sure when or how. May have just overdid it yesterday when pushing the girls. Oh well, I didn't want to make it worse so I quit after a mile. Bummer....

New Training Partners

Today was the first time that my girls joined me on my walk. Well, I walked, they rode. They both did so good! Zoe asked questions about everything along the way which kept my mind off of the extra 50+ pounds that I was pushing & Fiona played with her elephant and looked around until mile 2 when she fell asleep. She slept the remainder of the walk. I am so proud of both of them. They had a good time and I got a good workout!

We'll see how they do tomorrow. I hope they continue to like it. It sure would make scheduling walks easier if I could take them with me.

Yea for the Reeves Girls!