The good side of weird schedules

My husband went back to work today for the first time since his foot surgery. He works a late afternoon/night shift and we don't really get weekends together. So for about 5 days, the only time we will see each other is when one of us is asleep. Sucks for me cause I feel like I never get to see him, but there are benefits to it. See, on nights when he is home I just want to hang out with him... which sometimes leads to rushing through my exercise time and not doing chores as often as I should. At least this way I can get more stuff done around the house and not feel like I have to rush through my workouts.

So tonight I did my strength training and had a date with my foam roller. I had a bunch of energy because we had a Thanksgiving lunch at work... carbs, yay!

Lately I've had a bit of heel pain in my left foot. I think maybe I've been favoring my left foot a bit during these several months of dealing with hip pain on my right side. Took a break from running for a week to see if it would do anything. It didn't really help initially, but the last 2 days have been a little better even though I ran yesterday. I'm not that worried about it. This week I realized I'm always going to have little nagging aches and pains. As long as they never become anything more than that, why let them stop me? These days I am stretching, massaging, icing, and foam rolling everything to minimize any possible issues. The truth is, if I stop everything each time I get aches and pains, then I'm never going to get anything done. Would I rather go back to my life of inactivity and never accomplish any challenges or have any cool stories to tell? Hell no! I'd rather do something awesome and be in pain sometimes than not even use the body I was given. 

So yes, I'm just going to take care of this as best I can and hope it doesn't turn into something serious like PF


This weekend I'm doing the Great Santa Chase 5k. It's here near my house at Lights of the South, a big Christmas light display here in East GA. They did this for the first time last year and it was my first REAL 5k where I ran for time. That time was 36:51, which I will surely beat the pants off this year. Will I meet my PR of 27:17? Probably not - since my return to running I've been averaging around 10min/mile. So I'll try to get a sub 30 minute run here.


Oh, one more thing. I found this and it's pretty great. Perfectly describes a hypoglycemic runner like myself...

10 Things HANGRY People Do  !!