Feeling drained and like I need to carry two pairs of shoes

Well tonight after the run I do not feel the normal high I get from the run. I think it might be because before I even got to the .5 mile marker my left leg was completely numb. UGH!

I know a lot of that has to do with my weight but I also noticed that depending on which pair of shoes I wear the opposite leg goes numb and the time before it hapens differs to. If I wear my green asics my left leg goes numb fast. If I wear my pink asics the arch of my foot gets blisters and eventually my leg goes numb. If I wear the sauconys my right leg goes numb. I want desperately to get to the point where I can just run. Smile on my face, breathing, feeling, living and all is well.

Another 2 miles today although most of it was walking. I just pray to God that I am ready for the 3 miles in 2 weeks.

Blisters A HOY!

Yep. Note to self, check mileage on new website http://www.mapmyrun.com/, and know where it is you are going.  Thank you Michelle Moll Schubert for the info.

Second note to self, WEAR SOCKS!

So that said, LOVED the new trail I found today. leawood park in KS (right down the road) has a huge trail set. They do not have mileage marked on a map so I just started walking, figured I would do my hour worth of music and the world would be all right. HA! I finally stops some girls who were running and they told me I should turn back now because I was already pretty far away from where I started and the trail I was on didnt go around. So I turned around and found out that I went a little over 2.5 miles.
Feeling pretty good but definitely got some serious blisters. OUCH! On the inside of foot at the highest part of the arch. D.D. says I need to where socks, it is definitely going to be takin into consideration.

Loving the nike DRI-FIT long sleeve shirt my parents got me. It is nice out but not nice enough for short sleeve shirts.

Really loving the running just wish I had someone to do it with on e a more regular basis. The lady at the main office of my apartment complex told me she would walk with me when I stopped by to find out about the gardens. I took her up on the offer and so once the weather gets nicer she will start walking with me. No worries, only every other day so that I am running on the other days.

Good news about the garden, it is FREE!!!!!! Hey hey! So going to get plants on the way home tomorrow and get some starters going :D

Next run on Thursday night, Sunday practice run for 5K and then 2.5 weeks to Rock the Parkway 5K! 

2 miles?? Oh yeah I DID IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Okay so when I first started this journey I will be honest and say I doubted that I would do it. I doubted that I would be able to run one mile and that I would continue.

I am on my second mile, freezing, but oblivious because I am so happy! I cant believe I can do it.

One of the most important things that have made a huge difference is the positive support team I have. My friends DD and Kaci who are half crazy ;0) and just ran a half marathon at Disneyworld. THEY ARE AMAZING, and were not runners at all when they started in the fall. Can you believe it? My friends on Facebook from all over the world, my parents, my family and my extended family in CO and Saint Louis. It means a lot to me to be supoprted and have positive feedback as well as honest critique.

So my friends DD and Kaci got me a couple of things that I totally have to share with you, check it out...

I went to this store in Saint Louis called Sports Authority and this really great guy helped me out. He not only found a perfect pair but he didnt hand me the most expensive shoe on the rack. THANK YOU! and betteer yet he was telling me how great it was that I was running and not to dismiss running the half marathon, to just keep pushing myself. I would have kissed him had it not freaked him out.  I told him about the heel and calf pain/numbness.  He said that the shoes I had were stability shoes that were correcting my foot from rotating in, a.k.a. pushing them out. Ha guess what, my feet do that NATURALLY!  so basically I was over correcting something that was not wrong. I now have a pair of very nice cushy shoes :D  I will be wearing them starting next week;gotta break them in, and hope that it lets me get a little bit further.  My parents, being insane! Bought me the pair I was going to buy and then they threw Dri-Fit shirt for good measure. :D  I am set to hit the road, here are the shoes,

I will definitely miss the flat ground in the burg and in Saint Louis but I assure you it wont stop me.  Twenty six days and 9 hours to go. Bring on the 5K.

Signed up for a 5K

Well tonight I signed up for my first 5K.  It is called Rock the Parkway 2011. They do it every year and I am excited but I am really terrified and nervous that I will fail. Thankfully, I am blessed to have a GREAT suppost system, all of whom remind me it is not about time, it is about doing and completing. I will definitely be finishing and am so psyched to find out it is not timed!

I ran tonight and made it almost all the way through the 30 minute run. I think the last five 30 sec on 30 sec off was really all off but I pushed myself and ran when I could. My foot fell asleep again then went to my calf. I paid closer attention tonight and it is the outside of my calf that is the worse. I wonder if I am pushing my foot in one direction or another making that happen? Any ideas welcome.

I am not hurting as much as I have been after running which is great!  The first couple of minutes when I get done are pretty brutal but it passes quickly. I am looking forward to going to St. Louis this weekend for a different place to run and see how I do.

Have a great night and you probably wont hear from me till monday night. Peace :D

62, sunny and out!

Got the Jeff Galloway book, Running: Getting Started, and have really learned a lot.
Posture very important, cadence, breathing, mental and physical, so much information but really making a difference.

One of the things he says is a good idea is a journal. I am keeping one but wanted to put the number one issue I am having right now out there to see if anyone has any hints or ideas on how to fix it.

When I run my right foot heel starts going numb then it moves up into my chin/calf area. My left foot doesnt have the problem. I have also noticed that I tend to push harder on my left foot, I dont understand this because I am right handed and my left leg is the leg that I had the bone fracture in. Any ideas??

Next bit of new is that I think I have chosen my run, it is either the Sept 4th run in Disneyland CA or the Wine and Dine Oct 1st run in Disneyworld FL (http://espnwwos.disney.go.com/events/rundisney/wine-and-dine-half-marathon/?page=disney-wine-and-dine-half-marathon).  Not sure which one I am going to do yet but one of them will happen.

Keep ya posted...