I am now training for the Hospital Hill 10k on June 4th. I must say I am a little nervous about the race. Since I have started to train on hills I realized something. I hate running hills. I know hate is a strong word, and I repeat I hate running hills. Whenever I run hills my calves become tight or tighter depends on how far into the run I am. My calves are always very tight about the first 10-15 minutes of my run. I saw on the Runners World Facebook page quote for the day a quote i absolutely loved it said:
"What I learned from the miles of uphill my coach put before me was the simplest bit of math: The faster you run it, the sooner you're over it." - Sara Corbett, RW Writer at Large
I think that is a good philosophy. We will see how good when I run mostly hills on Wednesday. I think that if you push yourself up the hill hard you can recover on the downhill slope. I am open to suggestions from my runner friends.
I was also wondering some peoples suggestions on another subject...stretching. I was reading in my Shape magazine this month about stretching and it said you should not stretch before a run. It also said there is no evidence that this prevents injury. A year ago before I started running I would have said it is totally insane to not stretch before you run. However since I have started running I have really changed my mind. I have experimented with this, I have ran without stretching and I have ran after stretching and I came to a conclusion. No matter how much I stretch before a run my calves become very tight about 3 minutes into the run and remain tight until about 15 minutes into the run. After 15 minutes it really works itself out and the pain disappears. I heard a saying at one time stating "if you feel good after a run you did not push hard enough because it is suppose to hurt." I can believe that. Running always hurts at some time. Ben told me last night when I was icing my knees "you are worse than a baseball catcher icing your knees." I told him "run for an hour and tell me how your knees feel." I believe he got the point :)
I hope everyone had a wonderful Easter. It was a little tough on us. I enjoyed watching Addison hunt for Easter eggs at three different Easter egg hunts, however I kept thinking how much fun Jase would have had searching for Easter eggs. He is in the presence of the reason we celebrate Easter and that is a amazing comfort to me.
With mothers day this weekend I am going to try to keep busy. I am heading to moms house on Friday night to visit my grandparents. When I called my grandma last week and she had to ask "who is this" I realized it had been too long since I have seen them. One thing I have learned is life is too short and we are not guaranteed tomorrow. So a special trip to visit them is taking place. Saturday its back to Kansas City. Addison was invited to her first birthday party, and she is so excited. Saturday night is a night I have been looking forward to for a long time. One of my best friends Chelsi is coming and we are going to see Water for Elephants. I can not wait!
I am debating on if I should run the mothers day 5K on Sunday. We will see.
Happy Mothers Day
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| Addison and the Easter bunny |
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| Easter dress |
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| Addison and me before some egg hunting! |
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