Socks...or why I feel dumb today

Went for my 3 mile run and it was average for me. But that's not the story here...the story is that I did a slow warm-up, my run and a cool-down and there was NO NUMB issues. Yep that's right...no tingling, no dead foot. Nada. And I ran in my 'new' shoes I got a month ago. What was different....my socks. Today I wore no socks. I went shopping this morning looking for arch supports. I pulled out the insert in my current shoe and while studying my foot realized how tight my socks are. They cut me at exactly the crook in my foot (on top where my ankle meets foot). It suddenly occurred to me that I had changed shoes, changed lacing styles, but had never changed sock styles. I had pulled out a couple pairs from last season to run in and I guess they shrunk (plus I have a few more pounds now).

So I laced up the shoes like normal and just removed the socks and VOILA!

40 minutes total (wu, run, cd) and NO issues. Except the blister on my inner arch from no socks...but I'll get some new socks.

Weekend Update...with Kevin Nealon

Well I guess you gotta be kinda old to get the title reference but at least I'm giggling.

Saturday morning I dragged myself and the kiddos to the gym to run since DH was at weekly bball. I wore yet a third pair of running shoes I have. These are new balance (shout out) and a little too wide for me but I thought I'd give it a try. I remembered to start drinking my h20 as soon as I woke up and brought along a bottle and my trusty ipod. The plan called for 4 miles. And the whole way to the gym I was thinking 'well maybe I can just do 3, or 3.5 if I feel good.' As soon as I got on the treadmill though I knew I was doing four miles, even if it meant I walked the whole thing. Because I'm a list maker and I can't check things off if I don't complete them!

I warmed up longer at first since I was hoping this would make my calves less sore. I counted the warm up towards my mileage. Mile 1 - 15 minutes. That's when I figured out this was going to take me forever. Mile 2 - 13:07. So now we are 28 minutes into my workout and my right foot went numb. Which is a good sign since it usually falls asleep by 20 minutes. At least that's some progress. Took a walk break and played with adjusting the shoes. Decided to try to keep running and just see what happened. I spent about all of mile 3 with a numb foot but kept the pace up. Mile 3 - 12:10. Relaced the shoe up top and finished mile 4 - 12:57 - feeling great. I can't believe how different I felt from Wednesday when I felt so terrible. The entire run was great, kept my pace in check and wasn't sore at all this weekend. Total 53 minute run. At that rate it is going to take me almost 3 hours to finish. I better make a longer playlist.

Busy week coming up so I'm really going to have to plan if I have any hope of getting my running in.

Hope everyone else had a great long run!

Miles log

Ran last night even though I got home late and wasn't able to go until 7.

wu, 2 miles @13, cd

I like the song 'Play with Fire' by Hillary Duff while I run. Does that make me un-cool? I like the cadence to it. Also I have the song 'Labels or Love' by Fergie from the SATC soundtrack and it is fun and up-beat so that ones rules too.

My shoes are fantastic. No knee pain until towards the end which is remarkable. I really need to work on the eating part of this whole plan because carrying around this extra weight makes things much more difficult. Blech!

Going again tonite - hope ya'll are out today too.

2 down, 224 to go

I actually made it to the gym last night to do my running. Yay! My left knee was sore the first 4 minutes or so and my right knee was sore the whole time. Not painful, just sore from the lack of cushioning inside the joint. Did 2 miles at 13min jog.

I'm following a running plan I got off of runnersworld.com based on my current times and my distance goal. My plan called for 2 miles yesterday. My total plan to work up to 13 miles calls for 226 miles. Now I'm down to 224. Yay! Check the link on the right side for my training plan. Last night was pretty slow and I'm glad. It's my first time back running in a while. I've done some elliptical but not much running.

Boy, this is going to be hard to keep up. I think I will move running to the morning as much as possible because I seem to have no free time. Here's my schedule yesterday:

6am up, get ready for work
6:45am leave
7:30am work
4:30pm leave
5:00pm home, get ready for gym
5:30pm finally get kids and everyone in car
5:35pm-6:15pm gym workout
6:35pm- home, make dinner, convince DH to fold laundry
7:00pm-eat, clean up dinner, dishes
7:15pm-give kids bath, brush teeth, pajamas
7:45pm- read to kids
8:15pm- finish putting kids down, finally get a shower, kids keep getting up
8:45pm-"mom, I need a shake...." "Get back in bed!", DH leaves for bball
9:00pm- put wet clothes in dryer, get kids clothes and bags ready for next day
Put away folded laundry
9:30pm- try to read a book, but exhausted. Give in and let Syd sleep in bed
11pm- get woken up by loud DH coming home from bball
2am - get woken up by Tristen who wants me to cover him back up, twice
Lather, Rinse, Repeat...