Bummer Run!

This morning I got up and was totally excited to do my run today. It was my first run with my new Garmin Forerunner watch! My goal today was to do 5 miles. So I started my run and was feeling great and around mile 2 I was feeling so great that I was contemplating doing more as I was enjoying playing with my new watch. About mile 2.73 I got the worst die ache of my life!! I felt like something was exploding inside my body on the right side. It was so bad that I headed home so I only ended up doing 3.63 miles. This is not the first time that a side ache as disrupted my run. I asked my sis in law Ang what the possible causes of this could be and she said that I wasn't drinking enough water. So I thought I was drinking a lot but I guess I am going to have increase my intake even more because I do not want this to happen again and ruin a perfectly good run!!!

The Holiday Season

I always enjoy the holiday season. Food, family, and of course more good food!!!! But I am always relieved to see them pass! We have been super busy for the last 2 weeks with Christmas parties and seeing family from out of town! I love iot but always feel like I need a vacation after :) As January 12th ( the day I will attempt to run a half marathon) approaches I am getting more and more nervous. I have been trying to run faithly every day but during the Holiday season it has been very difficult! I'm back on track now and am toatlly excited to do this!!!! I ahve to share my favorite memory from Christmas. T and I decided to go to the mountains on Christmas Eve and go skiing and snowboarding. I ski, T snowboards. I was a little nervous about this adventure because it has been close to four years since the last time we went. We rented our gear and headed to the first run, a bunny hill, and got on the chair lift. When we were getting off T biffed it big time where they had to slow the chair lift down so he could move before the next people got off. I couldn't help but laugh as I glided past him and watch him try to get out of the way. After he buckled in his other foot it was time to see how the rest of the day would go. I let him go first because I was nervous. So he pointed his snowboard downhill moved about 6 inches before he was falling again. I waited and watched him fall and try again until he was about half way down when I decided to brave it. So I took a deep breath and pointed my skis down hill and it was like I had never had a break from it. I made my way down the hill with ease and as a past T who had just fallen again I couldn't help but smile. It is not very often that I am better than he is at a sporting event in fact I Have never been better I enjoyed this moment. Of course by the end of the day he had found his legs as was doing just fine. But for a couple of runs I was better and I will always remember that! We had soo much fun that day that we are talking about making it a tradition. I love new traditions!!

Happy 24th to Me!!!

Today was my birthday and I had a great day! I'm really not much for my own birthday but my Husband made my day a perfect birthday! I had to work this morning and they threw me a little b-day shin-dig and then I headed home to stand in the freezing cold half rain and snow for the Sumner holiday parade! Then we went home to have a fire and Happy Teriyaki (my fav) for dinner and watched movies by the fire all night. I loved this! To me there is no better night than snuggling up to my hunny, watching movies together, and hanging out! Thanks T for making my day great!!!!