6.4 miles to be exact.

Shinsplints:
So sunday I actually ran 6 miles...6.4 to be exact. after 5 miles (which is the most I'd completed since then) I got excited. The first mile I was required to do hard math. You see I ran at a lake park. The sign said "lake Loop .8 miles". Keeeraaap. I had to do math? I didn't sign up for the marathon to do math. So i tried calculating how many laps equalled 6 miles. Ok, everyone who is judging me...try it yourself. I'm waiting. Anyway after a couple conversions, carrying the 1 and taking a square root or two I arrived at 8 laps being a little over 6 miles. 6.4 but who really cares right. The coolest thing that happened was on the start of the 8th lap and 1 hour and 10 minutes in, a lady said "you've passed me like 3 times". What? Me? Maybe she was in a wheelchair but whatever...I still passed her 3x. I was expecting some delayed onset muscle soreness on monday. Instead I got the flu which brings me to the chaos portion.
Chaos: Flu's suck. But the cool thing about this 24 hour bout of the flu is that it happened on Jasons day off (whoops...he said I couldn't talk about him in this blog) Anyway...that dude I live with who has sired my children was not working that day. I don't think my kids have ever gotten sick on a day that he wasn't working. It was awesome! If I was to mention him I'd have to say that he rocked this flu thing. Since he was the only one not incapacitated he was amazing and I actually slept the entire day. the one time I tried to help cadence hurl she got mad at me because I messed up the puking process. You see you have to wipe your mouth first and then gargle. Oh...sorry. I pulled my lifeless body of the tile to hold your hair back and you're mad at me because I got the vomitting order wrong? Niiiice.
Another amazing blessing from God was that no kids were up last night hurling. If flu's could be like a vacation this was it. Calling in sick (and really being so) and having the man that shall remain nameless, home. Good stuff.
Ok...I'm excited to post my first pictures on the blog. I'm plugged in and am trying to forget that the last time I tried to do this I somehow downloaded 768 pictures and crashed a certain persons computer. But, this is my computer so those horrible things won't happen. 2 hours have now passed since i wrote the above line....i still haven't figured out how to do it. I WILL NOT GIVE UP!

chaos, kids and shinsplints

What do you get when you cross a new computer, a new pair of running shoes, a digital camera and a prescription for valium... a blog to explain why you posses all the above. The explanation is that my husband is tired of me using his computer (thus the new mini laptop), I'm chunky and signed up for the portland marathon (thus the running shoes) I'm losing my memory (the digital camera) and I have vertigo (ok...thats the official reason for the valium but it we all know better). So here I go...tired of tracy bugging me for the last 5 years and i am officially blogging. ok, side bar to explain to mom (Mom...a blog means a journal on line for only your closest Peeps (ie...friends) to see. I know it sounds like something that you get after irrigating your nose but its not. I sincerely hope you have found this and not crashed your computer or accidently hacked into a government database.
Last night I hopped on the treadmill at 1030 pm. I was supposed to go 4 miles. 45 minutes and maybe 3 miles later I hopped off. I have golfers elbow on my L side from trying to hold my body up off the moving belt of the treadmill. I realize that in 6 months I will not be able to hold my quivering body off the asphalt as I try to complete this marathon but that is 6 whole months from now...so I'll deal with it then. Tommorrow I have to go 6 miles. As I am super slow I figure that will be 1 1/2 hours of walk run (15 minute mile). By my calculations I should complete the marathon in 6 1/2 hours. They start tearing it down in 7 hours. That will give my family enough time to drive to portland, see 2 movies, grab lunch and meet me at the hospital. Sounds awesome. The best part of the marathon is that its taking place on 10/10/10. thats why i signed up. I think it will make a cool tattoo. Trying to think of a way that 101010 won't look like binary code or a holocost victim. Again...i have 6 more months to figure this out. Thanks for being part of this journey