The End of March

 The end of my 1 mile running streak, and I'll fully ready to admit that the running streak caused my problems. It also seems to be the end of my bid to run the Hennepin 100 in October. Maybe I can still do a Hennepin 50 or 50K. 

March was a big goal month for me: Sell house, find a new house, and get a job. As of March 31st, all three are set to happen. My house closes on May 3rd. We get house keys to the rental on May 1st. And I sent the email today to the chosen lab in AA! Done Done and Done. 

The kids have been here this week! They got bikes, and I got on Puppy for the first time this year this past Saturday. A "ride", not really, but more than I've done in months! But it seems my schedule is too crazy to commute to work. Seems. I just need to make it happen. 

We've been camping the last few nights near St James, and I've been rush rush rush. Stressed. M came back too, a coping mechanism. I feel awful, sick, tired, my gut hurts and is cramped. The camping stress is mostly a schedule change thing for me. All my comforting habits - good and bad - of running, familiar house, familiar job -- all out of joint. They aren't there for me. 

Gotta get fixed in April! I can't live like this, I'm wearing down and not enjoying it. 

Week summary of nothing- only 1 run

RUN Tuesday with BE on track. Really light run to see how the heel(s) feel. Both, but especially the right one, have a dull pain where I envision the plantar tendon connects the heel bone. In my head, I wonder if there's tendon-bone connection issues. That's bilateral, so that's shoe or volume increase or terrain issue. These pains aren't there when I'm running, they are there after I've been sitting or if I move before I'm "stretched" and limbered. 

There's also a pain in the heel bone of the right foot.  Some googling found it could be a heel bone stress fracture or fracture. Or it could be a fat pad contusion. In either case, rest is required. One for 6-8 weeks and one for 3-4 weeks. 

Define rest!? Should I be in a boot? Should I be doing even less walking? I'm considering new walking shoes, I've been wearing old running shoes. But when I wear my newer Adrenalines, it's better support but not so much less pain. 

So what to do? I'm holding to my 10K per day steps goal, and just stressing out. 

We Are NEVER EVER Getting Back Together

I remember when we broke up the first time
Saying, "This is it, I've had enough," 'cause like
We hadn't seen each other in a month
When you said you needed space. (What?)
Then you come around again and say
"Baby, I miss you and I swear I'm gonna change, trust me."
Remember how that lasted for a day?
I say, "I hate you," we break up, you call me, "I love you."

Ooh, we called it off again last night
But ooh, this time I'm telling you, I'm telling you

We are never ever ever getting back together,
We are never ever ever getting back together,
You go talk to your friends, talk to my friends, talk to me
But we are never ever ever ever getting back together

Like, ever...

I'm really gonna miss you picking fights
And me falling for it screaming that I'm right
And you would hide away and find your peace of mind
With some indie record that's much cooler than mine

Ooh, you called me up again tonight
But ooh, this time I'm telling you, I'm telling you

We are never, ever, ever getting back together
We are never, ever, ever getting back together
You go talk to your friends, talk to my friends, talk to me (talk to me)
But we are never ever ever ever getting back together

Ooh, yeah, ooh yeah, ooh yeah
Oh oh oh

I used to think that we were forever ever
And I used to say, "Never say never..."
Uggg... so he calls me up and he's like, "I still love you,"
And I'm like... "I just... I mean this is exhausting, you know, like,
We are never getting back together. Like, ever"

No!

We are never ever ever getting back together
We are never ever ever getting back together
You go talk to your friends, talk to my friends, talk to me
But we are never ever ever ever getting back together

We, ooh, getting back together, ohhh,
We, ooh, getting back together
You go talk to your friends, talk to my friends, talk to me (talk to me)
But we are never ever ever ever getting back together

Running on pause

Not running right now, and believe it or not, not biking either. Swimming, that's a laugh. Maybe someday.

I want to swim and bike and run, but there's too much going on right now. This weekend was the showings and open house for me! And THANKFULLY I'm under contract already.

LA drove here last Tuesday! And left this morning (Monday, I'm writing this a day late). 

My right foot seems a mess, the plantar area of both feet hurt sometimes (a mild feeling more than a real *pain*) and the right 4-5th toes are of the ball of the foot have mild pain too. It's all worse when I'm barefoot, in my good running shoes it's better. So I'm wearing my older pair of current running shoes. Sometimes it hurts a lot for a niggle, sometimes it doesn't hurt much at all and I get hopes of running tomorrow.

The right achilles attachment site also "hurts" when I'm driving and the heel rests on the floor. 

My hips were also out of normal last week - was it like a taper pain? A pain from a compensating gait for the foot pain? The bones hurt it seemed, it hurt to sit stand walk anything. WTF? I'm not sure it was the bones, I sometimes think it was the tissue along the bones. Because the bones hurting makes no sense.

I'm getting a symptom tracker, I'm wondering if the pains are the "menopause" type of pains Dr S mentioned? Because it's an unexplainable, unreasonable sudden onset of "PAIN". 

So stress, the M kind. 

Doing IF again, 21 hours yesterday. My stomach likes it. M doesn't. 

Right plantar niggle, and NY as people in Steinberg

Monday 2 miles, late at night
Tuesday 4 miles, with BE at the track

Monday is day 15 of the running streak, I hope this isn't too bad of an idea. "Just one mile" doesn't sound bad until you have a niggle then suddenly this "just one mile" becomes at the same time all-important and all-negative.

It started last week or the week before, I only feel it at the bottom of the heel when I start to run. But now I feel it walking. A mild pain is all. A niggle. I hope. 

Today at the track - a misty cool morning in the time-change darkness. BE talked about a documentary about Hands on Hardbody or something like that - about a challenge to see who can keep their hands on a truck the longest to win it. Also about his population mental thinking about how 1/millionth of the continental US is the size of Forest Park, and 1/millionth of the US population is 330 people - so imagine 330 people in Forest Park. And NYC would equate to 8 people in Steinberg skating rink. This took a few laps to think about!

And was a distraction from my niggle. Ugh. 

Birthday weekend at home, house shopping, NEW MOON

Saturday 1 mile
Sunday 1.5 miles

Rest week? More like stress week. I didn't add on more miles since I was at home and wanted to focus on being with LA, the birthday party for Kaitlynn, and house shopping. 

New moon Saturday morning, Daylight time change Sunday morning. Reset. 

We found a house! 

Weekend home, back to STL alone, rough week

Sunday RUN 1 mile at home
Monday RUN 1 mile with Kaitlynn and James!
Tuesday RUN 5 miles in 60 mins to LP
Weds RUN 2 miles in 22 mins around BP
Thurs RUN 4.4 miles in FoPa
Friday morning RUN 1 mile around BP

My run streak continues, it's all of 10 days so when does it really become a streak? K&J joined for Monday's run, LA was in an exam. I tried to tell them, that 1 mile is farther than they think it is -- but now they know!! They did good, some walking and lots of talking. 

Tuesday morning he left for AA and I left for STL. I came back to an empty house except for M. Ugh. Broke my streak. Ended up feeling sick from dehydration and stress and more and went for a run. 5 miles to LP then to Ephemeris for Amazon pickup. Bought oatmeal to see how it goes. Stuck to 8pm goal!

Wednesday an evening run, more of M, more of it with oats. Ugh. M M and more M. 

Thursday was with BE and EW and a thunderstorm! Felt great.

Today Friday was an easy mile. I'm enjoying the streak. I'm at 13.4 miles now. Was at 17.6 last week, so this weekend I need only... 20-13.4=6.6    Either 1+5.5 or 2+3.5 or some combination this weekend to get 6.6 and stop at 20 miles this week. 

I leave today for some again -- birthday party week and LA is already at my parents. We are ending a week of job interviews on Zoom and housing searches. Crazy

I did a Forest Park loop with walks!

RUN 5 miles and WALK 1.5, as Run 1 and Walk 0.25

This was an afternoon run during a break at work. The first plan was 0.5 mile walks, but I changed to 0.25 and it felt good. And it game me time to run a 5th mile. LA moves out this weekend, so this was also some stress relief.

No issues, relaxed, nice day.

NUMERICS Only RUN 16-17 miles.

I gotta get the bike out, it's like spring outside.

Baba - ganoush, oosha, and yaba (?)

Wednesday RUN 1 mile 12-some minutes
Thursday RUN 4.5 miles in 45 minutes
Friday RUN 1 mile in 11-some minutes

LA and I did the Weds run later in the dark, perfect weather and calm night. Reminded me of overnight trail running.

BE and I did the Thurs run as per Fo Pa usual, another great morning. The conversation ranged from some vegan recipes he's trying (like the 3-can chili), his new morning coffee machine and book reading habit, to a new book he's reading about a comic book writer who wrote an autobiographical comic after his mugging 25-some years ago, to ...I forget, then to my eggplant recipe fail and baba ganoush/babooshka, and baba yaga. And there it ended! A transcript would show the usual random topics we cover.

I wore the HRM for Thursday but it's hard for me to slow someone else down in a run. I feel like I need to keep up. The numbers started out 129, but then the last 3 miles were mid 140s. Still felt good, but this is why I struggle with MAF.

The Friday run we did before work, LA in Tshirt and shorts, me in lined pants and 2 upper layers. Still felt good! I will miss running with him! 

Carbs seem to be working, this run much better!

Monday RUN 1 mile in 12 minutes
Tuesday RUN 4 miles in 50 minutes on track

Monday's run wasn't enough for the chest HRM to "warm up", keep that in mind next time. 
Tuesday's run I arrived a few mins early to get a proper warmup in (skipped that last week). But still my HR was high: 128, 135, 135, 137. It didn't feel that high, but I wasn't going my MAF pace I was instead running along with BE and talking. I'm always hesitant to ask others to slow down for me.

Yesterday I had a feeling in my left calf along the lateral bones, low above the ankle, of a fatigued or tight muscle. It's still there today, but it reminded me to think about the importance of this streak vs the importance of being injury free. I wondered, if I run my 1 mile Monday night, then run Tuesday morning, that's a 36/12 hour rest cycle. If I run Monday morning and Tuesday morning, it's a 24/24. Does  it matter? 

Last night in the 1 mile run I felt like a tiny rock was in my shoe or sock. Feeling it again today, and it again reminded me of the potential to get injured. Even though I've been walking a lot the last few weeks, running is different!

My energy is better, I'm up to 90-99g carbs/day with mixed veg and rice puff cereal and a bit of fruit. Before it was 60g of veg. Huge improvement!

Start of a running streak, end of a low carb test

RUN 4 miles to TGP and a WALK of 2 miles WU and CD

This is the start of my plan going forward for Hennepin - slow and easy increases of training that includes running AND walking. Today after work LA and I started out towards TGP with a walk, after a mile I picked up and started a slow run. I didn't have the chest HRM so no good data. The plan was to loop back in 5 minutes and come back to LA, but he turned around (as planned) and starting running again (I didn't know was planned) and so I got an extra mile running in order to catch him. And it was a stressed last 2 miles because I didn't know where he was, if he was still feeling sick, if we'd miss the start of the 6 pm phone call...oof.

But the extra mile felt OK, no issues. And I did a core workout - as planned!

I've upped the carbs, and had some rice puff cereal. Much less veggies too, I'm trying to balance them out and find a happy zone for my gut and my energy. 

NUMERICS: 4 runs for almost 12 miles, and walking!