A long road

All things considered, I had a pretty good weekend.

On saturday morning, after a week of not exercising, I decided to run an easy 2 miles just to see how things felt. I did this in my new shoes too. At first I noticed a reduced range of motion in my right hip but about halfway through it loosened up and felt normal. I didn't have any pain while running. And this time I didn't get the abdominal cramp 1 mile in like I had been getting lately. However I did feel my right side start to tighten up at the end of my 2 miles, almost like it was about to start cramping up. I was sore after my run but it wasn't anything my ice pack couldn't fix. I just have to take this one day at a time. I have to keep telling myself I can do this, and that I will be back to normal soon.

Saturday afternoon we decided to take the dog out to the trails near our house. We picked up a sandwich from Subway and had a little picnic lunch out there. It was a gorgeous day here in Georgia

I ran this trail ALOT during the winter months, and still do run it on the weekends sometimes as part of my long run. If I run this whole thing 3 times it's about 4.5 miles. Now I'm doing about 6 miles for my long runs, so I may not be running here quite as much. But I still love coming here, especially now that everything is in bloom

We let our dog play in the creek, but it must have been pretty cold because he didn't seem to like it. 

And of course I have some pictures of me just being silly

Then on saturday night we went to a cookout with some friends. I ate too much bad food this weekend! Today I just did some chores around the house, and now my back is pretty sore. I didn't do my yoga in fear of aggravating it, and will see how I feel next week.

Tomorrow I have another adjustment and I have to go into work early, so no exercise planned for tomorrow. If I'm not horribly sore on tuesday I might lift weights, then run in the AM on wednesday. I'm not quite sure how things will play out. Just gotta wait and see

Funny thing is, I'm kind of glad I missed Warrior Dash this weekend. Apparently the Georgia dash was managed horribly and alot of people are PISSED. Here's the word from Facebook...They made the parking like 10 miles from the venue (and charged you for it!) shuttle lines were 2 hours long for one way, bag check line was 1 hour long, food lines were long and then they ran out of food, no water at the end of the race, not enough trash cans, no changing/washing station, and some people even thought the obstacles were sub par. Holy crap! Sounds like I dodged a bullet there. I know that it is a new venue this year so that must have been the problem. At least the Carolina race is at a venue they have used before and has been successful in the past, so hopefully it'll be good and I won't experience anything like this! Cause that is just ridiculous.