I know that my blogging has been light over the past few weeks, not much in the mood lately. I have been in a horrible mood lately. Overwhelmed, depressed and just plan down in the dumps the last couple of weeks. With my training on hold for another couple of weeks and Doug being out of town for the work week I have been pretty bummed.

I have been frustrated with my feet and my training. After my insoles left my feet in serve pain upon the completion of my 10.5 mile walk my insoles were sent back to the factory and resoled with a different cushion for better support. I am happy to report that they arrived today. I tested them out and they feel great so far, I will be breaking them in over the next few days and will be able to do my 6 miles on Saturday with them. I am trying to be excited but I have had so many dissapointments throughout my trials with my feet that I am begining to feel that there is little hope for them. I know I can finish the 13.1 miles for the Rock and Roll however I am becoming hooked on the marathon idea and I would really like to complete a complete marathon as well. I am just hoping that this will accually be a possiblity with my feet.

Doug being gone has been really hard on me. It pretty much sucks, with me getting off work late picking the girls up on the way home then doing dinner, dishes, PJ, snack, books and bed alone just makes for a long night and a later bed time that usual. It's doing things alone that is the hard part it is going to bed alone that is the hard part, not having him in the house just to talk to when ever I want to is the hard part. Not getting to kiss hug and just smile at is the hard part. :( We have another week of this next week and the again later down the road for a different phase of the building.

10.5 miles baby!!

I offically completed 10.5 miles on Saturday!!!!!! The walk was very difficult, I am still breaking in my insoles and I had not seen Karen to have her work on my feet in 2 weeks but I did it. I have much to do tonight to prep for a week of playing single mom (Doug will be out of town for work) so I will blog the details later :)

Insoles!!!

The last week has been consumed with breaking in my insoles. Which has consisted of many ups and downs. They are a major correction to my posture and stride which my body is having to adjust to. Saturday's walk went pretty good, I walked 4 miles in the insoles ans switched them out for the standard insoles I have been using and walked 2 miles, in which my toes instandly went numb and I got hot spots as well. I stopped at a the bathrooms with my new walking buddy and I had to switch the insoles back out I couldn't stand the old ones anymore. The remainder of the walk went well. Angelica and I chatted away during our walk about our week, the chatting was much less of a struggle than the week before, I still miss my Jenn though :( !! I had asked Karen if I could/should have our Massage Therapy person work on me after our walk, (she said it would be good for me), so I had the MT work on my gluets and upper legs since they were not pleased with my walk. He made a huge improvement in the way I felt Sat afternoon and on Sunday!

My shorter walks over this week have proved to be the trouble ones, my hip is poping my kwee hurts and I have found that I have been wipping my right foot around to compinasite for my knee and my meditarsal issues as well. With Karen's and Stephanie's help we have set up a new PT regiment. I will also be taking this Saturday walk off (or at least a shorter walk) to give my body a little longer to adjust and figure out their new stride.

I can;t beileve that the big day is 7 weeks away. I am getting really really excited!! speaking of the big day I am only $200 away from my goal so if were planning on donating and just haven't had a chance it's not to late!! please stop by my site http://pages.teamintraining.org/sd/rnr09/dclark6poc.

I will be spending today packing for the cabin, we are leaving tonight and I have to make sure the Easter Bunny is ready to visit, which he might be doing in the SNOW!!!

I hope you all have a very HAPPY EASTER!!!!

A week alone

I am soo very tired, this has been a very logng week for me. I am totally PMSing, I have been working a lot with Terri being in Mexico, and Doug has been working weird hours.


BUT I am happy to report that Terri returned today YEAH!! I am soo happy she is back. She has been gone for over a week relaxing in Mexico (which she totally deserves!!!). This has ment a very long week for me. I have been working later and have been flying solo at the center for the week. Running the center solo is doable but is a much less stressful with both of us there.

I had my apt with Karen yesterday, she did major work on my legs since it seems that my walk on Saturday without a decent support did some pretty good damage to my feet and legs. I now have pain in my right foot and shin splints, so she addressed these and taught me what I could do at home to address the issues.

I received word today that my insoles have been shipped and that they could be here tomorrow if not on thusday. Stephinie will give me a call tomorrow once the deliveries have come in and let me know if they made it in. Karen is very confident that my insoles will alivante most of my issues and head us on the way to a full recover through her program instead of her fixing issues and then having them regress due to pore support for my feet.

Over all

Aftermath, "Working", and my 1st Coach Purse

Well I have one thing to day about today MY FOOT HURTS!!!!! After my 5 miles yesterday and then walking all over Balboa Park trying to get to the Old Globe Theater last night, my foot is really not happy with me today, well more like pissed than unhappy.

Doug and I had a date night last night, where we saw "Working" at the Old Globe in Balboa Park. IT WAS AMAZING!!! We laughed and I cried (I related all too well at a couple of the parts). I highly recommend it to anyone in the San Diego area.

I am also super excited about my most recent ebay purchase. My friend Jenn is a seller on ebay and she announced last week through her blog that she was posting 4 COACH purses from one of her sellers and most were brand new!!!! I checked out her posting and fell in love with Coach Hamptons Tattersall Large Carryall Purse. I made my offer an offer, then an additional 2 and won the bidding!!! The purse is BRAND NEW with the tags still on it and I paid less than 1/3 of the price for it.

Insoles and 5 miles without them

I am happy to report that I had a wonderful apointment on thursday with Steph. She watched my gait examined my feet and discussed what she was seeing and feeling as she was doing it. It turns out that the sprain I suffered in college did more damage to my right ancle than I was aware. In such a way that my right foot upon impact wobbles to find its center, this would explain why the inside of my righ ancle is always sore. We then discussed what I needed in an insole and she plastered my feet for a cast of them. I put a rush order on them so they should be in on tuesday. YEAH!!!!


Today we walked 5 miles at Miramar Lake, It was a beautiful walk. It was freezing at 6 am this morning and my legs took a while to warm up and work correctly to get my stride correct. Unfortunately without my new insoles my toes gave me issues right away and they continued to for the entire walk. Today's walk was hard for me, I missed my walking partner, I did walk with a fellow walker who was nice but Jenn and I seem to be able to talk about so much that the time passes very very quickly. Today however dragged on forever and it only took 1.5 hours. I also think that my feet bothering me made me just want the walk to be over today.

I am really looking forward to Tuesday and getting my insoles and hopefully being able to complete my walks with less pain and numb toes.

Not in a Blogging Mood lately :(

I haven't been in a blogging mood over the last week. Probably due to me not training again, not a huge deal but I am a little off my game. Karen and I have been discussing my semi custom insoles from my chiro and how they are not really working out for me. So I talked to my chiro and decided to return them and I made an apt with Karen's mentor to have custom insoles done. however that was last weds and my apt is not until this Thursday, so Karen discouraged me from doing my walking until then, she is concerned that with out the support of a good insole that I could destroy all the work we have been doing. So instead of walking she increased and added more stretches to my strengthening regiment she has given me, to correct my foot issue.

However today things to have finally fallen in to place and are starting to look more in the positive direction. Some good news is that Road runner finally recieved the replacement for my brokn hydration pack in, so that has been replaced. They also allowed me to recieve store credit for my socks that I purchased from them that gave me blisters and they recommended some different socks that I did purchase along with a new pair of capris since it is getting hotter now especilly in east county, (they are the same as my running pants that I have completely fallen in love with). I also have taken my shoes back to road runner for a second time (that makes 3 different pairs of shoes) and the guy really really worked with me and we found a pair that I am really happy with, not just happy with lst the last pair that started bothering me after an hour in them. I am happy to report that I worked a 5 hour day in them today and they were grea the entire day. Now I am supper excited to go in on Thursday and start the insoles, she will also be altering my current stock insoles to serve as a temp insole so I can start training again and complete my 5 miles on Sat, I really did miss the walk last Sat.

I wwill try to be better about blogging, I think now that things are getting back on track it will be better.