Yesterday

Yesterday was supposed to be an interval run for me, but it felt like everytime I attempted to go do it someone else needed something from me. After work I went home and realized that I was hungry enough that going to do an interval workout on that empty of a stomach was a bad idea, so I ate at around 9:30am. Just when enough time had passed since my meal that I could change and safely do these intervals without throwing up my son needed a ride to the school to get his saxophone. He had dress rehearsal last night for the Maple Fest talent show that is this evening. That's a little difficult to do or practice for when he didn't have his instrument. So I ran him around to see if he could get into the common school to get his horn which was around 11am. Once that was finally taken care of and I was starting to put my running tights on to go do this run my phone rings and it's Mariah who is 7 month pregnant now. She had blacked out at work and hit her head on the floor. So I took off my running tights, put my yoga pants back on and off I went to get her and take her to the ER. By the time that we got done there, by the way she's fine it was 1:30pm and I needed to eat again. At this point I just threw the towel in. Julie had a friend over when I got home and they were arguing with Kaylee. The house was loud and in complete chaos and my husband was trying to work. I think if I had left to go try and run at that point he might have killed me.

So I've planned today a little differently. I've got my running stuff already on. I brought bananas to work so I'm going to be fueled properly. Once work is over all I have to do is take a layer off, put on my running shoes, HR monitor, watch and outdoor gear if it's cold enough for it and run out the door. I figure if I go home and try and do if from there the same thing that happened yesterday will happen today and two days off for no real reason other then that life is crazy is not acceptable.

At least I know I wasn't the only one who had a frustrating day yesterday. Met my coach at the hospital he had fallen off a ladder and I later found out broke his toe. That was definitely worse then my day, and I can't imagine how he feels with a marathon only a month away.

I broke down and took a bath last night like I had thought I might. Shoot was the only time I got to myself all day. I got a glass of ice water, lit some candles, drew a hot bath added some shea butter bath salts and soaked for a good 45mins. When I was done of course I cleaned the whole bathroom, but I was good and relaxed and I think they ultimately helped me to fall asleep faster.

I'm tired today, but I expected to be. I went to bed last night no later then 9:30pm but two days in a row at 3:30am for a wake up time starts to catch up to me no matter what time I go to bed. I may sleep in till 5am tomorrow what a treat :). I won't get a day to sleep past that probably until Tuesday. I'm not entirely convinced that this is a bad thing. I certainly don't feel like I'm wasting the day getting up this early.

I ate a lot yesterday though for not being very active:
6 bananas- breakfast
1 1/2 cucumbers and raw red pepper hummus with honeydew melon (most of a whole one)
Smoothie: 4 scoops carob powder, 11oz coconut water, 2 to 3cups baby spinach 1cup frozen blueberries and 2 frozen bananas
rest of red pepper hummus and 1 yellow pepper.

It's hard sometimes to watch the rest of my family eat cooked food I once enjoyed. Some examples include: "cheese" sauce (LOVED this with brown rice crackers) Mac & "Cheese", "Cheesey" broccoli rice casserole, Cheater pad thai, GF bread with brown gravy, GF pasta and sauce, guacamole and brown rice crackers those are some of the highlights but the list really could go on.  I remind myself how eating that food makes me feel. Easy to stay focused on feeling the best I can possibly feel and knowing that in order for that to happen I need to eat the cleanest possible diet. For the next month I will take in no overt fats, no nuts, seeds or avocado. I will have no kombucha and I will be more mindful and only eat when I'm actually hungry. I want my cardiovascular system functioning as best as it possibly can for this race. I also want to hit that sweet spot of body weight so aerodynamically I'm unstoppable.

No matter how I do, I'm looking forward to the experience. To be able to say, I ran a marathon.