The running has come to a standstill...again. But in its place has emerged an extreme workout taking place at precisely 6:30 every evening in the Gandee household!

P90X...Ouch.

Move the couches, the coffee table, the rug. Pull out the weights that have made a home in the corner of my living room. The whole gang...all 5 of us...it's quite a sight.

We are into our third week and I have never been so exhausted from an exercise routine in my life. I've taken a break from the running due to a pain shooting through my foot. It has subsided somewhat, but I'm still feeling it linger.

I desperately want to run. Desperately. But this workout is incredible and it's keeping me in shape for when I do finally reach for Asics again. I'm praying for this toe pain to just go away for good.

Did I mention that I desperately need to go for a run? But I can't get out of bed in the morning, because this workout is kicking my behind.

Just thought I'd share.

Mitchell Invitational

We'll be getting up at 5:00am in the morning tomorrow for Daniel's first BIG meet in New Port Richey(Over an hour away...ugh) There will be 30 schools there and this is where Regionals is going to be when it's all said and done. The guys are going all out tomorrow to see what they're made of.

You can see Daniel's stats here

Prayer Run

Had a great run/walk with a good friend today. I have to say that ending a long sweaty work out with prayer is the only way to go.

I will not...

be running the Firecracker 5k! This heat is unbelievable and I am not a great fool!! Well, I have been foolish in the past...so I'm not going to do it again! I haven't run much in the past 2 weeks due to the 95-103 degree weather. Haven't been feeling too great overall so I'm taking it easy. I still want to do the half in the winter though!

Firecracker

Planning to run the Firecracker on July 3rd. Last year it was so hot and I pushed it way too hard. Took home the masters female but I regretted it. Couldn't stick around to enjoy it since I couldn't see straight. Hopefully I can pace myself a little better this time around and not drop of heat stroke.
Jaret's planning on running with me. He can't wait to run track for the middle school next year. I guess he won't be running cross country because it's during football, and football wins out.
I think I'll try a 5k schedule from runners world this time around and see what happens!

getting warmer...yippee!

Feeling good! Dan and I have been running together lately and that's been great. We were both down and out for a bit so we're building up slowly again. We had a nice 3.5 today. The weather is finally warming up and that is sooo wonderful.

Doesn't look like I'm going to make any of my races for the month of March and I'm disappointed, but I'm checking out all the races in the near future and putting them on the calendar. That helps...gives me something to shoot for!

Slow Going

Getting my endurance and speed back after being sick for a few weeks (and taking some weeks off before that) has really proven to be difficult. I've been through this before but this time it really seems to be just a little bit harder.

I guess it really is time to embrace the fact that I'm getting old....er. I'm not throwing in the towel or anything but I'm not killing myself to try to get back to my previous fitness level. It used to come back pretty quickly...not so this time around.

Oh, don't get me wrong! I'm going to get it back!!...but at a reasonable human pace and not at an obsessive, gotta be the best pace! I think I like the idea.

Let you know how it turns out.