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I combined posts, but not workouts.

Tuesday – 2 mile run
Wednesday – 3.5 mile walk [was supposed to be a run but I found a walking companion so I walked it]
Thursday – 2 mile run.

And run I did. The two 2-mile runs I ran the whole thing. I did the flat Griswold High School track on Tuesday (0 elevation change), walking the 3.5 mile Bluff Point loop on wednesday (+371 / -303 elevation change) and ran the Red McKeon track in Occum (+9 / -9 elevation change)  [please no one come and murder me because I tell you where I'm running.]

Mike gps’ed the occum trail and it was .26 mile loop, I don’t know why that link is showing it as .11 mile loop.

So anyway, I’m busy as heck, got a ton of stuff to do, but I did my running! Looking forward to being in Florida next week, but not looking forward to running in their heat. I’ll have to get up early. *grr*  I booked one party solid for next weekend and I have a tenative one the week after {Do it Erin! Do it!} No rest for the wick … ly awesome!

…raylene

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OK, so it’s going to be sort of a cheating week. I don’t have time to run tomorrow, but today I combined the walk and the 4 mile run. Because I can, that’s why.

Run
4 miles

But really it was walk .75 miles, run 2.5 miles, walk another .75. Went around the track 16 times. The first and last 3 walking and then the other 10 running. My calf was still sore and crampy but I told it to STFU so I could run. ) It took me just under an hour, I figure. BUT THE POINT IS, 4 miles.

Now to clean out my car, clean my demoes for tomorrows Pure Romance University, assemble gifty’s for my 12 attendees, write fabulously inspirational notes for them all, and, well, shower. It must be done. I’m sort of ripe right now. But I think, at least, clean the car first.

And, yeah, that’s it.

…raylene

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Well, THAT sucked. I made it 1.75 miles without stopping and then my calf started to cramp up … really badly. I still can’t walk without limping and I’m really ticked because I was feeling pretty good about the run. So now, I still owe myself a 3 mile run this week AND a 4 mile run. Grr.

I’m still looking to book parties in Orlando or Tampa area the weeks of July 22nd through July 31st so if you’d like to see what I do, let me know. I’d like to not have to go that long without making money! [and yes, Christey, that's includes Melbourne area or even St. Pete Beach area, I'll travel!]

…raylene

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Oh my aching knees! I’ve actually been  having trouble sleeping because my knees are aching so!

Run
2.0 miles
Griswold High School Track

I figured out that when I hit my running stride not only do I feel amazing but my knees cease to hurt at all. The problem is that I can’t remain in that zone for long or I feel like I’m going to barf so my goal now is to extend how long I can stay in that zone each time.  Today I hit that zone in the 6th lap, right after a walk break. I stayed in the zone for 9/10’s of the lap and then walked 1/10th and then right back into the zone using that pattern for the last 3 laps. I definitely could not have done another lap but those last 3 felt good.

I think I know exactly what speed that is, too, because I remember it from my old treadmill days. My ‘zone’ run seems to be at about 6.5 on the treadmill.

Other than that, the only thing exciting in my life today was being verbally attacked by a woman at walmart because I went through the under 20 lane with a cartridge of printer ink, a watermelon and 30 folders … which if the girl had just counted 30 x .25 it would have been fine, but she went ahead scanned each one [taking all of about 30 seconds] so the lady behind me started getting all psycho about it being an under 20 lane. Tori got pissed and started to tell her off. It could’ve gotten ugly if I hadn’t been decked out in PR gear, but I have a reputation to protect so it ended quickly with me doing a “Talk to the Hand” and saying “shut. up.”

It fueled my run. 6 months and 3 days until the Disney Marathon.

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Run
3 miles

I don’t even bother with the time now, I just don’t care. The fact that I’m still standing at the end of a run is enough for me. I went alone this time, my first by-myself run, I went backwards around the hill/circle that I usually run so that instead of a quick decline and a long slow incline, it was kind of the other way around, but I did get to notice that much of what I perceived as “flat” along my normal direction is really slightly downhill so I really did quite a bit of long slow incline after all!

I was bookin’ it at one point … so much so that I had to stop for fear that I would upchuck the peanut butter toast I ate before I left so then I walked a little, especially on the big up-hill, but probably for no more than 2 to 3 minutes of the total run. All in all I’m happy with the run. I mean, if I were going to be happy with running, which is unlikely.

Rest day tomorrow. I’m looking forward to it.  6 Months 5 Days until the Disney Marathon

In unrelated news, as I was getting into the car after my run and barely still breathing, my cell rang and I answered it and it was someone asking to be removed from my mailing list … because I sent her a birthday card. Srsly? WTF? Just throw it away for crying out loud. That was just rude … and a little mean. It’s not like I’m a big faceless corporation … I’m one person so when you say I don’t want a birthday card from you, that’s a pretty specific slap in the face. Mean people suck.

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I need Florida peeps to party with me!!

I'm going to be coming down to Orlando from July 22nd through July 26th and Tampa "ish" area from 26th through 31st and I was wondering if any of you down there would have Pure Romance party with me while I'm there. Because we're down there for such a long period of time, I don't want to go that long without working, plus I'd love to show you actually what I do.

Obviously, I won't be able to carry inventory with me, but I"m planning to bring my demos with me. Interested? I can do any night of the week or Saturday or Sunday afternoon, whatever works best for your schedule.

Because you'd essentially be doing me a huge favor, I'll give you 15% of the retail sales in free product [rather than 10%], plus a few extra goodies. Let me know if this is something you can do!

If you can't party, but you'd like to hang out, let me know and I'll see what our schedule looks like.

Thanks.

...raylene

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Tuesday
Run: 1.5
Thursday
Run: 3 miles

No time for either, I’m just glad to have not skipped them. Tuesday was absolute torture. Absolute. The lactic acid build up in my legs from walking all day saturday and sunday was uncatagorically painful. The first 1/4 mile was OK then the second quarter mile I could barely keep walking and then the last lap was OK. I was surprised and pleased that I finished it.

Today, yesterday was supposed to be day 2 but it never stopped raining so I did the 3 mile run today. I don’t know how my husband managed to find essentially an all up hill route but he did. There were a few short downhill bursts, but for the most part it was long, long inclines. I wound up walking the last probably 1/4 mile because he was pacing me with was messing with my already lack of rythym and I knew I was running to slowly for him so I tried speeding up and then I just couldn’t move anymore. *sigh* but I finished.

Tomorrow another 1.5 and I think that’s the last time I ever get to run that short of a distance.

Now, off to shower then to get my Military Dependent ID. I bet they don’t get TOO many pink haired Officer Wives.

…raylene

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Run
1.5 miles
78.6 degrees
66% humidity

Muggy. Ick. Feels like I can’t dry off!! It didn’t feel like I was having a party out there, but I didn’t feel like I was dying. I can’t wait until these short runs feel like nothing, ’cause right now, they feel like something.

No running this weekend, it’s the Relay for Life weekend so I think endless walking for miles and miles will have to do instead of a run.

…raylene

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Run
3 miles
69 degree
76% humidity

Not sure what my time is because I forgot to start my watch again, but it was a hard, hard run today, even Tori said so. From now on, I’m going to try to track heat and humidity and see if that’s a factor as well.

I wound up walking a good bit more than normal {which is none} but it was partly because it was a difficult run and partly audio difficulties. It seems my iTouch really likes the Italian language for Dummies CD and it cycles them in more than anything else and hitting “NEXT” just brings it to another language lesson so I had to stop and exit out of iTunes completely and then go back in and hit random. It was seriously pissing me off.

I definitely have discovered that I have a comfortable running stride, but unfortunately I can’t stay in it for that long because it’s too fast for me right now. But I’m keeping a mental playlist of the songs that fit that stride so when I’m ready to increase my speed, I”ll make an On The Go of just those songs.

For now, I’m whipped. Ugh.

6 months 3 weeks and 2 days until the marathon.

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