Trail Running Granny

I took Odee out to Draper and did the Porter Rockwell trail, I went south from the South Mountain bridge, I stilll don't know how far south it goes, I had to turn around to get back for work.  I love this trail!

Today is my first weigh in for the Biggest Loser Contest.  I am down 2 pounds!  I had to work hard for that, only one splurg meal all week, it is tough!  It will be hard to stay on track with our St. George weekend.

Here's to a great taper week for us all!  Stay healthy and injury free!

Bummer!  I woke up with a bladder infection, so I am heading off to the doctor in a few minutes.  I know once I get the meds going I will be just fine, but it is a big goose egg for today!  This is just alittle to close to Painters for me, but I will get this taken care of! Rotten luck!

I had a great run this morning!  My heels felt better today than they have in months.  I am taking a new med called Ciprofloxacin for my PF and it seems to make a huge difference. I am going to stretch the heck out my feet these next few days and ice and hopefully I will be fine for Painters.

The meds for my infection have kicked in and I feel great, things are looking up!!

I am going to focus on healthy foods these next few days and keep it light, so like Smooth says, I won't have too much junk in my trunk for Painters!  I love it!!!

6.47 miles     1:20 min.     12:21 avg. pace

Today is a busy day, I have to do most of my Friday appts. today, so I am packed. I will be lucky if I get a mile walk in with Odee tonight.  Oh, well, this is what I have to do to get a day off tomorrow.  I am so looking forward to St. George!

OOPS!!  I just realized I gave you the wrong med. info yesterday.  The drug I mentioned yesterday was for the bladder infection.  Naproxen is the med for my PF.  It seems to  help my feet, but it is making me extremely bloated, it did say that was one of the side effects, that was another reason I didn't jump out of bed earlier to get my run in today. I had alot of fiber yesterday, that could be part of the problem as well, I better watch it today, I can't be feeling like this Sat.

We are heading down to St. George in a few hours!  We are meeting the bloggers for dinner tonight and then running the Painters Half Marathon tomorrow.  Everyone  going down, drive safe and not too much junk food on the way down!!  :)

Painters was a blast!  Harold and I met up with Marion, Dave, Kelli, Scott, Smooth and Pres. Smooth, Jon and Kelly and afew others, sorry I forgot all the names for dinner and visiting. It was so much fun to get to know everyone better, in real life!

The race was awesome, my plan was to plug into my ipod and enjoy the first run of the year slow and easy. I thought I would start with with Kelli and Marion and see how long I could keep up and I made it the whole way. It was SO much fun!!!  The girls kept me entertained with lots of stories, I was thrilled to be able to stay with them thru the race. It was fun to see all the fastrunning bloggers pass us by.  Jon and Kelly and Scott came back to herd is in to the finish.  Thanks guys, it felt good to know we had friends to come back and help us finish.   I don't have my computer to figure out the splits, hopefully Marion or Kelli will do a more detailed report.  I think we averaged about a 11:12 pace.   Thanks Kelli for being such a great cheerleader, and congratulations Marion for completing your first half marathon.  It was so much fun to run with you both, you are AWESOME!!!! 

Smooth where were you?  We missed you!!!!!  I hope Teena made it thru okay!

*****  I just got home and read everyones blog, my entry is not very detailed, please read Kelli and Marion's entry for a better account of our run.  I don't know how Marion can remember that much detail from each mile, it is all a blur to me.   The picture on the bottom left is of me with Lisa ( one of my running chicks from last summer) and her cute daughter Brooke that did the 5K.*****