I've been trying to train for the Riverbank Run, a local 25K race. I've been training since early December and I've run in 30 mph wind gusts, ice, 2-foot-high drifts (had to change course once cause the road I was going to run on was completely drifted over. I would have had to wade in snow up to my knees to go that way), in rain and gotten sunburned. I thought I had this under the belt. I ran my 14 miles (my longest scheduled run) and felt confident I could finish the job.
Well, this cold had other plans. It started as a sore throat and some congestion in my head. Well, so far the sore throat left but the congestion settled into my lungs and promptly became Bronchitis. I missed last weeks 12 mile run, plus 2 5 miles runs during this week. Today I meant to make up the 12 mile run but by 9 miles I couldn't breathe. I called my hubby to come get me, but felt considerably better after a walk, so I called him back and said I'd get back on my own power, whether walking or running. So I ended up walking around .8 miles and only covering 11.8 miles.
We'll be seeing how this week goes. All I can say is if I'm still this congested in 2 weeks, I will either be running only 10K that day, or I will be finishing in well over the 3 1/2 hour cut off time.
Saturday, April 30, 2011
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Just some stuff
Every day I come to my Blogger homepage and see all the posts from these people who so faithfully blog and I see my '96 posts' that hasn't moved since FEBRUARY and I feel guilty. Well, hopefully no more. I'm just going to hit 'new post' along with all those other blogs I'm opening and leave that tab open (gotta love Google Chrome) until something to write about comes to me. Hope I'm not boring. Not that that's stopped me in the past.
S got accepted into an accelerated learning program at her school. She's excited and her parents are trying not to burst with pride about it. This is just a little leak, not a bursting. ;) I'm pretty excited about it too. She's also on a softball team again this year. This may be her most personally challenging year yet. She has only 9 teammates, and of the 10 on her team 2 of them have never played softball before. I was on a team like that at around the same age and while I found it discouraging then, I chuckle about it now. Hope she can learn from it.
A was just told she's more than a grade level ahead in her reading. She's pretty proud and we've already had a few lessons about not bragging about yourself! Tough to learn in Kindergarten. I'm so glad she's also inherited a love for reading. She's scheduled for some dance stuff this summer, but has already expressed desire to play softball next year. It'll be interesting to see which she like better after getting a taste of both. I, as her mom, feel like I know which she'd be naturally better, and will have to practice biting my tongue so she can sample what she wants to.
We try to limit them to one thing at a time (we've had some overlap that can't be helped), so she will have to make a choice! It's so interesting to observe kids growth. I never knew I'd appreciate so much the birds'-eye- view I get on their lives as they start to make their own decisions and grow up.
C is 'preschooling' with me, as she is very proud to proclaim when she's asked if she's in school. We've worked on some upper and lower case letters, numbers, shapes... Yesterday she counted by twos all the way to 12, and we have a sheet of words from when A started kindergarten. They're words that kindergarteners should know at the beginning of the school year, and C knows at least 3/4ths of them on sight and sounds out the rest. She's going to take her first dance classes this summer, too. I (again speaking as mommy and thus the one who thinks she knows her kids inside and out), think she's taking it because A did and she thinks that's just what you do when you're that age, but I'm prepared to be pleasantly surprised and have a virtuoso on my hands. :)
So there we are. All caught up.
S got accepted into an accelerated learning program at her school. She's excited and her parents are trying not to burst with pride about it. This is just a little leak, not a bursting. ;) I'm pretty excited about it too. She's also on a softball team again this year. This may be her most personally challenging year yet. She has only 9 teammates, and of the 10 on her team 2 of them have never played softball before. I was on a team like that at around the same age and while I found it discouraging then, I chuckle about it now. Hope she can learn from it.
S's class meeting one of our state congressmen. He just happened to be there and volunteered to take us all down on the floor. It was pretty cool.
Playing a game in Kindergarten
We try to limit them to one thing at a time (we've had some overlap that can't be helped), so she will have to make a choice! It's so interesting to observe kids growth. I never knew I'd appreciate so much the birds'-eye- view I get on their lives as they start to make their own decisions and grow up.
C is 'preschooling' with me, as she is very proud to proclaim when she's asked if she's in school. We've worked on some upper and lower case letters, numbers, shapes... Yesterday she counted by twos all the way to 12, and we have a sheet of words from when A started kindergarten. They're words that kindergarteners should know at the beginning of the school year, and C knows at least 3/4ths of them on sight and sounds out the rest. She's going to take her first dance classes this summer, too. I (again speaking as mommy and thus the one who thinks she knows her kids inside and out), think she's taking it because A did and she thinks that's just what you do when you're that age, but I'm prepared to be pleasantly surprised and have a virtuoso on my hands. :)
Being cheesy for the camera.
So there we are. All caught up.
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