Hitting the Pavement

Caylea's first day of 7th grade! Can't believe it's that time again for school already.

I was excited to get this at work on Saturday. I thought it would be great for running in the winter. And I need to be running in the winter if I'm going to be ready for running this half marathon in Februaray.

I've never really eaten anything during my runs before. I've had Gatorade which definitely helped on a long run. So after reading a lot of running blogs I thought I'm really going to need to figure out what works for me as a little pick me up during a long run. Something that won't send me running straight to the bathroom. So I picked up a few things to experiment with. The packs above are like gummy bears. Haven't tried them yet but Stacy said they are good.

Jelly bellies that I have an excuse to eat during a workout? Um, that sounds do-able.

Shot bloks...haven't tried these yet either.

My basket full of things to try. I've read one girl who takes PB&J sandwiches with her, don't think I could handle that. Other people take the gel packs, I have some of those too. I have tried a few in the past and they pretty much have the consistency of snot. So when you already feel like you could throw up, that may not be the best thing to try to get down. Just saying.

Today I knew I wasn't going for a long run and really didn't "need" to re-fuel during my run but really wanted to try one of the items, so jelly beans won the toss up. I found the little bags that spare buttons come in worked perfect to carry just a few with me. I took the fruit punch flavored ones. They were pretty flavorful. They weren't "take me to the movies" good, but decent.

I bought a new iPod Touch. Last night I spent a couple hours adding all my songs to it and some apps. I must say I love it! Wasn't sure I would like running with it based on the size but it was really light. The only thing that bothered me was that it was hard to see the screen when I was trying to switch songs. Have you seen that saying, "I like every song on my iPod except when it's on shuffle." Yeah, that's me. I'm still trying to figure it out....I would put it on Stuck Like Glue by Sugarland and as soon as I start running it would flip songs like I was shaking it up like a magic 8 ball.

So with iPod, beans, and watch I was ready to go.

Finally, I was ready to hit the pavement and go for a run again. Smiling, exciting to be heading out....

And this is how I felt afterwards. Like. Complete. Crap. My first lap was great but my second lap sucked.

-Time was terrible

-blaming it on the hot sun. Why did I think it was a good idea to run at 10:30 am in an area with no shade?

-Jelly Beans didn't give me any magic boost. Although I did only eat 4.

-And the rest of the day I've had a terrible headache and had to take a nap

-Laying in bed now with the heating pad on my neck, still feeling nauseous. Made it 3.5 today,
need to be able to do 13.1 in 6 months. Got a ways to go!

After I got done running I thought that since the jelly beans didn't work why not try frozen yogurt? They say chocolate milk helps with recovery. I figured raspberry yogurt with strawberries, raspberries, and cherries couldn't hurt! I definitely have a long ways to go to get to where I need to be again but at least I got back out there again today. I'm hoping for cooler weather soon. I never have been able to run well in the heat. So it probably wasn't the best idea for me to go out today in the blazing sun.

I need to be studying for my CPCU so I really wish I didn't feel so bad all day after running. I'll just have to make up for it studying throughout this week. Pretty sure I'm taking tomorrow off running!