Stupid Sunday

Today was dumb.

I woke up feeling not quite right and it went downhill from there. 

Everything hurt my stomach, including water. But since water is kind of necessary, I sipped on some when I could. I also have a fever.

I really need to work on my lesson plans, they're due Friday, but it definitely isn't happening today. Neither is my long run. 

As my mom said when I texted her, "fever is the only thing that keeps us down." We're both very stubborn about acting sick when we are.

Buddy didn't mind keeping me company.

Hopefully I'm back to normal in the morning, or it's going to be a long day.

On a trail

Good morning!

I was up bright and early this morning to meet up with the group. It was absolutely pouring last night, but was beautiful and sunny this morning! The trail wasn't nearly as muddy as I expected it to be either.

My usual "slow" running buddy wasn't there today so the other "slow" girl and I had to work a little harder than usual to keep the group in view so we didn't get lost.

I felt like I was running a race. And according to my Garmin, I ran my fastest 5k today. On a trail.

Speaking of my Garmin, it decided to wait until 2 miles in to start working, so I only have about 40 minutes worth of our nearly hour long run.

This is what the miles it did record looked like:
1. 8:56
2. 9:21
3. 8:22
4. 9:34

ON A TRAIL.

Altogether we ran 6.42 miles in a little under an hour. No wonder I felt like I was working hard!

It feels pretty great to know I can keep that pace up though!

I almost didn't go out this morning because of my knee, but it turned out that it didn't bother me at all!

The bruise is developing quite nicely.

 

Give it a day or two, it's going to be an awesome color.

I iced my knee when I came home just in case it was going to be mad at me for running.

And had an excellent post-run snack.

Tom and Buddy went walking in the woods this morning while I ran, Buddy was very excited and should be pretty wiped out for the rest of the day.

Oh, and one of the moms from work brought in a bunch of stuff from her work for me and my assistant. Wasn't that sweet?

Free things are fun!

I hope you're having a great weekend!

Take that baby down

The munchkin who hated me yesterday is back to liking me today. And being a little possessive. One of the infant teachers came in to say hi and handed me the baby she brought with her. My kiddo was not happy about it. He told me "you no hold that," and to "take that baby down." Too funny.

I did today's run yesterday since I knew Tom was going to be home today. So today is a rest day for me. Good thing too, because my kiddos and a chair worked together to trip me up at lunch today. I hit my knee pretty hard, but I think it is just going to bruise. I think it will be ready to run by my group run on Saturday.

Buddy has the whole house available to him, but he chooses to lay on top of his ropes. 

That doesn't look comfortable.

This is aggressive as he gets.

Watch out for that tongue!

I'm pretty excited that tomorrow is Friday. The weekend is way better when Tom is home - relaxing alone is great and all, but relaxing when we're both home is even better.

Fickle toddlers and a tempo run

Today, the seams of my running clothes were bothering me, and it took three hair elastics, a headband and several clips to get my hair contained enough to not drive me crazy.

But then, the run. Once I got started, I felt really good!

Tempo run day - 1 mile warmup, 2 miles at 9:41 and then 1 at 9:31 because I was feeling great and wanted to go faster, and 1 mile cool down.

Just a bit sweaty at the end.

It was a good day at work today, ten crazy kiddos managed to play really nicely for the most part, and as an added bonus, I only worked until a little after 3:30! I felt like I was getting away with something, even though I worked a full day.

One of my kiddos is in a hating everything/everyone phase, but I am usually exempt. At nap time I got an "I hate you," but it was quickly replaced with "No, I like you, I sorry" when I went to sit by another munchkin. Fickle toddlers. 

I did a little tidying around the house before my run, because at some point (I don't know when exactly because his flight was delayed), Tom gets home tonight! I'll be sleeping, because it will be late, and I have to work in the morning, but that means he'll be here when I get up!

Also, I just realized that the Newburgh Half Marathon is a little over 3 weeks away - so soon!

My trusty sidekick

Totally crazy day today. We haven't had all 11 kiddos in a while (or at least a couple of weeks) and it definitely felt like a full house.

There were several emotional breakdowns among the toddlers (luckily not the staff), and it takes a lot of energy to calm them down when they get worked up like that.

My new assistant came in today! She's a little quiet, but I think that's mostly because she doesn't know what's going on yet. The kids took a little while to warm up to her, but by the time I left (5:30, boo) they were pretty happy to have her around. I think (hope) it's going to work out.

My running motivation was almost derailed by some random traffic on the way home that made my normal 8 minute commute (yes, I'm spoiled, and I like it that way) almost a half an hour. I never saw any reason for the traffic either.

My training plan only called for 2 easy miles for the day so I took my trusty sidekick out with me.

He was ready to be done at about 1 1/2 miles, but we had to get home somehow, so we kept going.

Tired, but he still seemed pretty happy - check out that tail!

I think it's finally time to put my laundry away that I did this weekend. Or I could just go shower and do it tomorrow...

source

Are you a procrastinator?

Isn't everyone?

Buddy's new spot

This weekend went by unnaturally fast.

The news I have been waiting on for months finally arrived today - my afternoon assistant starts tomorrow! That wonderful news means that there is actually hope that I won't be working obscene amounts of overtime anymore!

I decided to put Buddy's crate away since he's free-range now. When I moved the crate I discovered just how messy an eater he is.

He enjoyed cleaning it up!

While I was putting his crate away, he was digging around in his toy bin for his nylabone. He tends to make himself bleed when he has it for too long, so he has to be supervised.

Buddy's new spot - he seems alright with it - the living room looks much bigger now.

I had a weirdly productive time after work today, got dishes done, cleaned part of the living room and took out a bunch of recycling that I have been ignoring for weeks (lets pretend that there isn't still a lot of recycling that needs to go out).

I love when things are clean, I just have a hard time getting motivated to clean things!

Tomorrow we're back to our full class of 11, I should probably get some sleep...

Happy Mother's Day!

Happy Mother's Day to my amazing Mom! We're overdue for our next adventure!

I had a really good breakfast this morning, and I got to try out the granola I got in my RunnerBox. I made a little yogurt parfait.

Coconut is the best of the Greek yogurts.

 

It was about 50% raspberries because that's how I roll. The granola was really good, though since it was flavored it was pretty sweet. I didn't expect to like the lime flavor, but I would totally eat it again.

It was beautiful out today, less humid than yesterday. Buddy and I went for a walk until he slowed down, neither of us is a big fan of getting overheated.

I think he had a good walk.

Long run day, 8 miles at 11:13 pace. Felt fine, though I was definitely ready to be done at the end.

Buddy decided to block the treadmill belt after I was done, just in case I was going to start running again.

Now it's time to get my laundry folded and get to bed. How did the weekend go by so quickly?