4.22.13

It's funny how even when I run solo, I feel that running erases my loneliness. My husband has been away so much with his new airline that I've been home along most of the last two weeks. It was wonderful that we were able to be together for almost 2 weeks before that. It's been a long time since we had so many consecutive days together.

Sometimes when he's home I find it hard to go out on a run. I value our time together and feel that I'm being selfish for going on a run. Lucky for me I married a man who sees how happy running makes me. He all but throws my shoes at me sometimes. He's not fooling me, I know it's so he can work on building models.

Today was my first run in 6 days. My shin splints had gotten really painful so I forced myself to take a few days off. Did BodyPump and BodyFlow back-to-back yesterday (a really good mix) and my shins felt great.  Ran 4 miles today with a little pain; I tried to concentrate on my form and luckily that seemed to really help out my shins. Add some stretching, ice and some Zensah compression sleeves and I'm not feeling any twinges. Crossing my fingers!

Weather was beautiful for a run. 52F, a little windy, clear skies. Couldn't ask for a nicer day. I saw a bluebird! Never ever saw those in Florida so I'm still very excited to see one. Unfortunately today's adventure was devoid of labs :(

I also have a new "body" goal. Instead of it being a certain target weight (which I learned is unreasonable) or a certain pant size (except for I'd like last year's shorts to fit, yo). I decided that I want to feel FIERCE. I wanna have my muscly legs and arms back and some semblance of abs. I figure the rest will fall into place. My legs are already getting nuts between all this running and BodyPump!! Fierce, yo. Fierce. <3