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It's back !!! Sorta.

I have been having a love/hate relationship with my early morning runs. I love the way I feel when they are done. I hate the getting up at 4 am to go run. I love that I can run and for the most part I do OK at it. I hate that I am slow and have to work really hard to have a good run. I love that I am an adult onset athlete. I hate that I didn't start earlier in my adultness. So lets talk about the slow part, this at first was not a big deal to me. I would tell every one I run, but I am slow. Like I had to qualify the fact that I was slow, some sort of apology was needed from me to the running gods because I was slow, like I didn't have the same rights as the faster people as a runner. I think that this is part of the reason that I have not been in love with my running, I didn't take enough pride in the fact that I did run. It was like some high school boyfriend that you are embarrassed to be dating you are mean to him in front of your friends but are all lovey dovey when there is no one around. I have to take pride in the fact that I am a runner by my own definition no one else can call me a runner but me. After the Running America 08 "event", I was going to break up with my running habit, I was going to do the 1/2 and that would be it for me as a runner. I may still go for a run now and again but it would not be what I was. I have been "running" from running for the last few weeks, every morning we are to get out there I would have some lame reason not to go. On the run today I remember why I started running, why I love it. It is now part of who I am, I am a runner. There will be no more apologies from me about my running. Today for the last part of my run I was at that 12 min per mile speed, I liked it I want to work to get to that point, I want to run, I want to keep running for a long time. My running mojo is back. It will be 2 years in October and I am celebrating this with the completion of the San Jose Rock'nRoll 1/2, due to the hip issues I have faced this year I will not be running the full distance, but I will be completing it any way I can. I AM A RUNNER, even if I have to walk some times.

My not really Running America 08

Well, I am all done running with greatness. We got there at 4 am and meet some of the other runners and a film crew from HBO was there we stood around and talked to the crew and each other. That part was nice, one of the runners was from FL she really wanted to run with Charlie, she is going to try to run with him in New York for the final leg. She talked a lot, so I made sure I stood next to her so I may be on film:) Charil finally showed up, we were given the official stickers and t-shirts that I will not be able to wear any time soon it is a size large, because all runners are a size large, right? we took pictures on the steps of City Hall and then they were off, yes I said they. I made it about 2 blocks before I just could not keep up with them. My chase team picked me up and we followed along the caravan with the other chase cars. I don't run 12 mm not unless it is downhill with a strong tail wind pushing me on roller skates. I guess I sound a little bitter, but I was not told that 12 mm was the minimum that you needed to move. "Anyone and everyone is eligible for submissions, no matter how young, or old, no matter if you are disabled, or if you have never run before. Great opportunity to be in front of the cameras, potentially meet some celebrities, and be a part of history." No where in that statement is there anything about 12 min miles. I am just feeling a little let down. We did follow the runner and crew so that was kinda cool. We crossed the golden gate bridge, and were able to watch then come across that is awesome to see. I was able to wish Charlie well and thank him for this unique opportunity to come out and do this with him, I told him that I fell off in the first few blocks, because they were too fast for me. He hugged me and told me that he was sorry that they were moving so fast and to keep it up.

Would I do this kinda thing again? Maybe the city is beautiful at that time of the day and i got to meet a running legend. It was not all bad, it will be interesting to see if I make the film :D

Plate to Plate RR

Short version:
Plate to Plate was awesome again this year. 45:45 A new 5K PR for me!!

Long version:
Plate to Plate was awesome again this year A little back round, last year was kind of a struggle for me. Truth be, told most of my previous races have been a struggle for me, I like to start off to fast burn out and then die for the rest of the run. This year I fell in Feb on my right hip during an early morning run, darn sidewalks. I didn’t run on it for about a month, saw a chiro and it got better, so I thought. Fast forward to about a month and a half ago, and starting to train for my first ½ the stupid thing flared up again. So it was back to the chiro, but this time it didn’t help. So I thought I would try ART (active release therapy) at this point the hip had been painful for about a month, and I was desperate and beginning to think that running was not really for me. I found a wonderful ART practitioner in Berkeley. Things were looking up, I have had one set back and it was Friday before the race this weekend, the hip was back to hurting all the time. I was pretty sure that I was not going to be able to run the 5K on Sunday. The cool thing about Plate to Plate is that you get to run across home plate at AT&T park (it will always be PacBell to me), but you had to be in the stadium before 10am. I was shooting to walk the race and make it in time to cross the plate. I woke up on race morning, to my surprise everything felt pretty good. The hip was much better then it was on Friday. So I dressed to run and off we went, my DH and DS (who ran as well) and my training partner. We got to the parking lot at about 7:30 found our space and went in search of safety pins. We found DH a good place to watch the jumbotron from on the other side of the cove, after using the porta-potties. My training partner fell as we went out for our run on Friday and was not sure if she was going to run, but did so at 9:01 garmin time we were off and running. DS was with us until we got out in front of the ball park, then he was off to run his own race. It was crowded and so the there was a lot of weaving in and out of groups of people that were walking. I lost my training partner pretty early on, she is much faster them me, even with a bum knee and ankle.I was starting to fade but I found a lady that was just ahead of me I was matching her foot steps, so I stayed right behind her. As we moved along I glanced at the garmin, and thought dang I am moving, we were doing 13 and change at this point. I saw DS after he made the turn and was heading to the stadium, he is a fast little son of a gun, he was still looking strong heading in to the 2nd mile, he finished in 37 and change. I am still flowing the “rabbit” that I had found, I would like to take this time to thank her for letting me tail her, and listening to my panting as we ran. We reached the turn around and I found my training partner, she had slowed up some, I lost the “rabbit” at this point, I was hoping to see her again so I could thank her, but I never did. We made it to the stadium at about 9:30 ran on the track to the foul line and then across home plate. This year I hope I am looking up and not at my feet in the pic. Out of the stadium we go and off to the finish line, garmin time has me at 45:45 my fasted 5K time. Not bad for a bum hip and not much running in the past 2 months.