Another race done.

This weekend my husband and I along with another couple did race to the rocker. It's a 4 mile race all on highway with lots of hills. 

Now heading in to this I knew I wasn't in the best shape but was going to do it anyway. A couple days before the race my sinuses started acting up and making me cough and feel like I was drowning. But I still wasnt going to back down from doing the race. My A goal went out the window as I knew pushing to hard would be dumb (plus I had to work a 24 hour shift the next day) and knew it would make me feel worse. So my B goal of not even being close to the last person was what I was hoping for. The night before the race we went to dinner at a local bar and grill and met the other couple we were racing with there for dinner and well for a few drinks.. 

The race had a 9am start which was nice no rushing around way early. We arrived and took a team photo before the race. 

As you can tell it was super cold I had two shirts and a jacket on and was still froze. We realized quickly our team most whole we had never met was super fast runners. I immediately felt bad that we would pull their team times down but were told that only the top 5 times counted anyway. 

The race ended up being one heck of a mental battle for me. I realized I need to suck it up and go to the chiropractor as my hips are so far out of line it's causing me to walk different which caused pain. 

Some of the miles felt they past quickly some drug on forever I was glad I was able to tackle the hills with no problem. 

I never did look behind me but made my husband look to make sure we weren't in the end. 

The closer we got to the finish line the more I wanted to be done so I ended up doing the last mile as the fastest of the day. We crossed the finish line I wanted something to drink and wanted to cry. I was frustrated with myself knowing we were the last two of the team to cross. But when I got home and looked up to see how many were behind us I wasnt to upset. There were over 90 people who finished after us!

It was still cold and I was glad to get back on the buses to head to the car. 

We stopped and ate Mexican on the way home and then spent the day helping my grandma move and go thru things. 

I am already looking for another race in a month or two to actually train for this time no more winging it. I want solid times not half ass ones. 

Skating and random things

Been quite a while since I last did a post... Didn't think anyone needed to hear about stress work stress work kids stress. Lets just say was a very rough few weeks. 

Anyway last Saturday I took the kids to roller skate. The babysitter was taking we grandkids so of course mine wanted to go as well. I have been skating since I was 2 or 3 my dad always took me every Saturday and Sunday my whole childhood. It was our thing we did together and most of the time he was the only adult/parent out there skating. 

Blake had been skating once Nathan had never tried. So we went and I got us all three on roller blades. Nathan preferred the carpet to practice on he did go out on the rink with me twice. 

Blake did good and by the end of the 3 hours he was more confident and could get himself around the rink. 

I skated the whole 3 hours minus maybe 10 minutes. When I would check on Nathan or take a quick break for a drink. The boys loved it and want to go back. On our way home I called my dad to tell him about our afternoon and I think we will make a skating date soon with him and the boys. 

After we got home I ended up running fire calls for brush fires so by bedtime I was wore out and SORE!

Friday morning I took Nathan for his preschool screening. So as a special treat we went to breakfast together before screening. He was one happy camper to have breakfast out with just mom. 

This weekend Kenny and I are doing the race to the rocker it's a 4 mile point to point race with some friends. I wasnt really planning to do this race and well I will just wing it (then have muscles that hate me later). I got a text last night that our team shirts had came in. I was quite happy with the color not so sure the guys on the team will be. 

However we will nice and bright and easy to spot. 

I don't really have many goals for the race. Other than dont finish last and try to beat my time from last year. 

A new month new week and a fresh start

I am pretty darn glad that February is gone done and over. It wasn't a terrible month but it sure wasn't a great one either. Had lots of thing happen that stressed me out and didn't help that its stayed super cold. We had a couple nice days but I was always working on those go figure.

I only posted twice last month, had lots of potential posts in my mind but never put them down and hit post. My attitude sucked for the last couple weeks of the month (still working on that now). Things were piling on that stressed me more and more to where little things would send me over the edge. I HATE that feeling and then hate knowing that I let bad old habits creep back in. Luckily this time around I was smart and let a couple close friends know I how things were going and I was able to keep some of the bad habits at bay.

This month I want to have a great month with food fitness and attitude and be in a good spot mentally. I have some things I wont discuss that I need to work on an change but lets just say I got hit hard with something unexpected last Tuesday that threw me in to a bad downward spiral.

Last month my goals were:

1-Get a schedule figured out where I can schedule time in for workouts. I have my first race of the year coming up in 22 days its just a fun 5k but I want to beat my time of last year. First race was wake up call that its not smart to wing a 5k (and not smart to stand and work 3 hours prior to race) I tied my time from last year which I was ok with.

2-Get my costume done for that race and quit procrastinating. I have the tulle just need to cut and make the tutu. Had it done in plenty of time even made two tutus for a couple little girls and another one the morning of the race for a friend.

3-Continue to drink more water and cut back on soda. About 80% on this I drank more water but some days still had two sodas instead of one or none. However I did have several days (not in a row) that I didn't drink any soda

4-Bring healthy lunches for work and cook more crockpot meals along with cooking more than we need at night so we have leftovers for a few days. This was hit and miss between me working nights and then nights I was home Kenny would work late I opted for dinners that would have lots of leftoves. We had roast and veggies, salsa crock pot chicken, grilled one weekend. Kids well they had lots of cheese pizza lots of yogurt and chicken. On days I didn't bring my lunch there was only one day where I opted for temptation on a hamburger from sonic and regretted it the rest of the day.

5-Spend time with the boys one on one and together hope weather starts to warm up some so we can go for walks or bike rides on our road. Mother Nature sure didn't allow for a warm up and my bike has still not seen much of the outdoors. Did make time to spend with the boys we had several evenings that was just the 3 of us and we would cuddle on the couch watching a tv show.


Goals for March:
1-Get some mileage in on the dreaded treadmill. I have signed myself and hubby up for a 4 mile race March 22, some friends of ours are doing it and talked us in to it.

2-Contiue spending more time with the kids in evenings and once weather warms up taking them to the park or for long walks or bike rides.

3-Find ways to manage stress better

4-More water less soda (its getting easier but days when stressed I WANT my Dr. Pepper) Tried the Advocare Spark drink and like it and also use Zipfizz some as well.

5-Learn to open up more to my close friends before getting to the over stressed overwhelmed point.