Raceday...

So... Raceday and I´m not in any way, shape or form ready for it!

I´m running a fever, my throat is sore and one of my toenails has fallen off, due to a previous shoe incident...

Anyway, as promised, I meet up with the other girls of which I only know one, Susanne.

No need to worry, they´re all great ladies and we have alot of fun pre-race.

I´m starting as # 4 in the race of a total of 5.

When it´s my time to go to the swap area I´m anxious, and have a splitting headache.
I see Ewa coming up and yell to her, waving my arms in the air. I get the relay baton and start to run....

First 200 meters are killing me! I´m sure my pulse will race through the roof and kill me there and then!!
Nobody would realize I´m dead until at least 25 minutes, and that´s just no good.

So, trying to keep up the tempo I try to focus on just finishing the race. I didn´t bring my iPod, because I thought I was going to have to concentrate too much to listen to music. This was a big mistake!!!! Next race (yes, people, I will do this again...) I´m bringing music, dammit.

Still, I finished the race and was semi dead when passing on the baton to Susanne, our last runner.

After the race we had picnic, then dinner, and party. All in all, a great day and a fantastic evening. I´m happy to have met a bunch of new cool gal´s!!

Out of office and heading for bed, Ciao!

Oh, well

I´m sick... SICK!
Sore throat and fever! This is not good for my race this saturday. It´s my first competetive race, and 4 other people rely on ME...
I simply have to take it as easy as I can and skip todays workout. Finger´s crossed I don´t get worse...

Over and out!

Up and at it...

Well... The day looked promising, it RAINED when me and kiddo went to her first schoolday!
After dropping her off, I changed to go for a run, just to notice the rain had stopped and the humidity was killing me!!
Still, finished with an average pace of 5:10/km, so not too bad.
My fear now is that it will be really warm on the race day. It´s only 1½ week away, and I´m in no way in the shape I should be, but I can´t bail out now...
On the good side, I did a new Vo2 max test and got the result 49=Elite! So THAT feels awesome anyway...
See ya!
(still havn´t decided to do the TransGranCanaria thing yet...)

Hiiiyaaa!

P90X, Kenpo on my schedule today... THAT really is a fun workout.
Lil´ booger even joined in for part of it, and then retired to the couch to supervise and drink water as she claimed.
It´s the kind of workout that makes you happy, but doesn´t make you all that tired. Perfect for evening training. Signing out at 10:58 PM. time to hit the sack!
Night, y´all...

What a feeling...

Well, my only goal for today was to beat the feeling of defeat I had from my last run.
I just wanted to finish my 5K without tasting blood in my mouth.

The conditions were good. Cloudy, with a good chance of rain, kiddo at a friend´s house and lots of time...

Soooooo, dropping of kiddo I realize the sun is NOT hiding behind clouds anymore. Still, there were no exuses to not run.

It was hot, heavy and nothing resembling a good run. BUT, I finished!
Bad time, and cramp in my side, but still...

Maybe I´ll get back to my good days soon...