10 Miler Sunday

Today was ROUGHHHHH! I have been sick all week so the most I have been running is mayyyybe 2-3miles a day for 2-3 days and the pain under my knee caps have become unbearable...I have been icing and heating as much as possible.

I ran 10miles today or at least ran walked 10 miles today...I ran straight through to mile 5 and then slow jogged to mile 7. At mile 7 I stopped and stretched because I was super tight and my knees were killing me. I don't know what it is about this marathon I have all of these weird injuries I never had before so I am learning as I go.  Mile 7-10 I definitely had to walk run the last 3 miles...Bummed that the 10miles beat me but the most important thing is that I finished...ughhh hopefully it will get better.

The new DRAMA in my life is that my house alarm went off and would nottttt shut off...with that being said I had to call the emergency maintenance line to tell me to cut all the wires after taking the alarm off the wall...LOL...story of my life.

On another note I am being peer pressured to join eHarmony.  Is that suggestion meant to be helpful or insulting?  Is is really that difficult to believe that you can meet the man you are meant to be with while getting a coffee at Starbucks or looking at the overly priced produce in the super market? I am really not at the point where I feel the need to invest $60 on going on bad dates where the guy slips me over the bill to pay half. Sorry, I can not even afford to date. Love finds you, you do not find love.


Workout of the Day
Sunday=Long Run

Warmup
800 meters-Light Jog
Stretching

10 Miles
Route=up Linton to A1A. Take a left of A1A and run all the way down to Gulfstream Park and back

Cooldown
400meters-light
stretching

Quote of the Day
I'm allergic to marriage-Eddie





 

Friday Night Softball

Tough Loss Tonight. 18-11


The spot under my knee is in excruciating pain....I have been ice ice ice icing it for 2weeks now and it's not getting any better. Don't know what to do at this point. Feeling very unprepared.

Workout of the Day
Friday=Fun Day
Softball

Quote of the Day

The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am.  Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.-- Dennis Waitley

Meg Gets Caught Slacking for 2 Seconds!!

I didn't get hit by any cars today but I am still recovering from the flu...MANNNN I hate being sick.  Today's workout was KILLER.  My Crossfit Instructor definitely called my a$$ out for being a little bit lazy today....the very second I think I can get away with not going 100% he's right there watching....Megan V. Whyyyyy are you not sitting all the way down on those wall ball squats??? Better, Beeeeteerrrr, bettttterrrrr, THERE YA GO come give me some dap on those....In my head I am like wellll hmmmm usually on round 5 at 10-11 wall ball shot I am pretty exhausted and I am sick...of course I would never say that out loud! LOL...

I am pretty disciplined but I am also human. I have my moments where I just am plain tired! Today was one of those days! LOL...

I have this INSANE pain underneath both my knee caps...Q(Crossfit Instructor) suggested I only run about 3 miles and rest and maaayyyybeeee 1 long run...and I said Q my race is in 8 weeks I am nervous, and he said well you will either do good or you will do bad and when you finish you just run another one....and I was like ohhh yeah I do have 47 other states to run hahaha...



Workout of the Day
Thursday=Crossfit Delray Beach

Warmup: 
3 Rounds:
10 GHD Sits (sub reg.)
10 Back Extensions (sub Good Mornings)  
200 M Run


Technique & Development:
LEVEL 1: TEACH THE BURGENER WARMUP (Review the KEY POINTS) for STANCE, GRIP, and MOVEMENT
ALL LEVELS / LEVEL 2: SNATCH (5-5-3-3-3)
Review the Points of Performance for the SNATCH.
With PVC, as a group, work:
5 x HIGH HANG SNATCH
5 x "POCKETS" SNATCH
5 x MID-THIGH SNATCH
5 x SHIN (FLOOR) SNATCH
Then work 5-5-3-3-3 adding weight each set.
WOD: 20 MINUTE AMRAP
10 Push Press
15 WALL BALL SHOT10lbs 
20 DOUBLE UNDERS or 100Singles
My Total Rounds=8


***AMRAP=As Many Rounds as Possible
Cool Down
400meter run
stretching

Quote of the Day
"Listen to your body. Do not be a blind and deaf tenant."  -Dr. George Sheehan

Hit and Run

Today was HORRIBLE....I had a guy hit me at a light and run. I didn't have enough time to get his license plate..Ughhhh my car is soooo cracked up...It amazes me that he hit me so hard that he smashed the back of my car in and leaves and doesn't even care if I am hurt after I slammed my head on the steering wheel...Thanks a lot...

Today's workout was CRAZY HARD!!  Of course I came in last, yet again!!! Our warm up was a 1/2mile Indian run...An Indian run is where you have your team stand in a line and run, the person at the END of the line sprints to the HEAD of the line until the next person sprints up...it's actually pretty exhausting!

Workout of the Day
Wednesday 24th-Crossfit Delray Beach

Warmup
800meter Indian run

WOD #1: 2 Rounds for TIME (MG)
750 M ROW
20 Handstand Push Ups- I had to do push presses because I can't do handstand pushups yet
Total time:10:28

WOD #2: "GRIFF" (Benchmark HERO) (M)
800 M RUN (Forward)
400 M RUN (Backward)
800 M RUN (Forward)
400 M RUN (Backward)
FOR TIME
Total Time:19:25

The 1/2 mile backwards run KILLED my time...I can barely run forward in a good time nevermind backward!! LOL

Meters to Miles 
400meters= 1/4 mile
800meters= 1/2mile
1200meters=3/4
1600meters=1 mile 

Side note: ANYONE who races for a team in High School, College, Professionally etc., I TRULY believe the 1200meter race is the TOUGHEST race so PROPS to you!!  

Sick

Today was a HORRIBLE day! I woke up sick as a dog! I have been in bed all day with the exception of going to Walgreen's to get some Sudafed...apparently you can make crystal meth from sudafed so they keep it behind the counter and waste another 20mins of my time waiting in line to get something for $5 that I have no desire to make any kind of drug from..Quite frankly, I am not even smart enough to even know how to make a drug....LOL....God forbid should I take something that makes snot stop dripping out of my nose...I get so aggravated...When you are sick, and your nose is stuffy, you have a sore throat, your body aches like you got hit by a truck, and your head is pounding like someone took a hammer to it, the LAST thing on your mind is smoking crystal meth!! Give me the Sudafed and let me be on my way! Let me pull out my license that you do nothing with and wait with the 400 other people waiting in line for their prescription that is going to take 40mins for you to find because in that particular case their insurance doesn't cover that particular drug and now you have to find out why!! I could have checked out in the front of the store with the people buying 99cent chips, and that $10 bamboo plant that I have seen in the same spot for 4years that all of a sudden seemed to sell today! Soooo to all you crystal meth labs and addicts please find another medicine to cook your $h*t because my ass needs to be back in bed with the TV on and the dog next to me...Please and Thank you...

BTW:::On a side note, while I was at Walgreen's I did buy the Ice pack that wraps around your shins. I saw it on the Biggest Loser and I definitely love it so far...Hopefully tomorrow will be a much better day..


Workout of the Day
SLEEP

Quote of the Day
"I've been sick with the flu and a sinus infection. I missed almost five weeks of running." -Blake Russell

Ice and Heat

Ice, Heat, Ice, Heat....that has been my pattern tonight...I am pretty sure that I have shin splints from wearing the wrong type of shoes to Crossfit and running over my mileage in my last shoes....Damn! I can't STRESS ENOUGH the importance of wearing the right shoe.... it can never be easy for me! Just one time in my life I wish that just one thing would be easy, not handed to me, just easy!! ahhh!

Soooo random but does anyone ever watch couples ice skating? I feel like the only reason I got sucked into it tonight during the Olympics is because I don't necessarily think that ice skating is fun to watch but I watch because I am so nervous that they are going to fall! LOL!!

I soooo didn't feel well today at all...I seriously think with drinking and NOT taking care of my body is what made me sick...I am drinking lots of water and going to sleep!! I didn't go to Crossfit because I was sneezing and coughing all day and I HATE it when people are sick and then come to the gym and then get them sick...

Workout of the Day
2miles
2000meter row

Quote of the Day
"Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired."- Jules Renard

P.S. I love Ryan Buell from Paranormal State

The Single Life& Training

I realized training for this marathon is MUCH different mentally then the others....I have to figure out a way to balance the single life while staying focused on the original training plan....

"The Single Life"-the way of living where you only worry about yourself, have no emotional responsibilities to another human being, no commitment, and can come and go as you please with ZERO consequences...Great right?! For the most part I have to admit YES! LOL...but on the other hand in simple terms it sucksss at times.

It's really hard to train and be single...I would like to think that for the most part all of us want to be with someone at some point in our lives...when you are on the "market" you have to attend social events otherwise you will NEVER meet anyone.  You are not going to meet anyone sitting on your couch.  I have ran in COUNTLESS races, attended every social networking event, photography shows, softball, birthday parties, Crossfit, Spinning, Happy Hour, etc. and trust me ladies the "good" men are scarce...it's not like college when you had 27,000 people that you could meet on any given day.  When you are older, have a career, been through breakups, I definitely think you know more about what you want in life and meeting that "someone" becomes extremely hard when "life" gets in the way...


Truth? All of those Happy Hours, and Parties, and Photography Events that I have attended have been ALL after 8:30pm...My friends have recently brought to my attention that I ALWAYS choose my running, my crossfit, and my "Spin Class w/ Barry"(as facebook knows) before anything else(of course weddings and things that have an actual TIME SET to be there are not included in that)...in my head I thought "well yeah, I am going to do what I want to do and Happy Hour can wait"...I spent almost 5 years with someone that I forgot to focus on things that I wanted to do, and now I am focusing on EVERYTHING I want to do and leave no room for spontaneity....When I am in a relationship I don't drink as much, I am much more focused on training because I don't need to be somewhere hoping Mr. Right somehow is going to just pop in my life somehow...

I am that girl that has my entire life on a schedule....My friend Damian said "So I know you are always busy so when in your calendar can you fit me in" annddd here is the worst part, I pulled out my blackberry and was sooo attached to my schedule that I said "3 weeks from now on a TUESDAY"...What a B*tch, seriously.....then just yesterday morning I slept in because I NEVER sleep and my friend Theresa said "Ohhh are you actually sleeping?! You didn't run a marathon today, or go to the gym, or go to Crossfit, or walk your dog, wowwww I am shocked"...


With all that being said, my friend/neighbor for my entire life came in to town and we hung out on Wednesday and Friday and it was a BLAST..I had such a great time just hanging and not worrying about being somewhere, and talking to someone from home was very comforting especially since he is a great guy and has a great family..I miss those moments here in Florida...and I decided to NOT do anything on Saturday OR Sunday except to go to the Street Painting Festival...I wanted to enjoy my life...I wanted to not run or sit at the end of my table writing with the cat on my lap trying to attack my arm as my fingertips hit the keyboard, or watch the dog sit next to me for HOURS with her 3 missing bottom teeth hoping that the little piece of turkey breast on my plate is going to fall on the ground so she could eat it.

I 100000% REGRET taking Saturday and Sunday off to "Enjoy my life"...I missed 2 MAJOR Runs a 7miler and a 14 miler...I drank, and ate like CRAP, and now I feel miserable...but here is the GREAT thing....tomorrow is a new day, I just have to move forward and get back on track...I have to keep my TRAINING as a PRIORITY...I had time to eat and drink and see street paintings, I should have made time to do what I was supposed to do...I watched my shows on DVR..If I had time to watch TV, and talk to friends, then I had time to go running....

Workout of the DAY
Sunday=Sleep and be lazy...Sleep=good, Lazy=BAD

Quote of the Day
"You have a choice. You can throw in the towel, or you can use it to wipe the sweat off of your face"--Gatorade