Lights!!!

Hi there! 

Kelly and I had talked about going on a run in the evening to look at all the lights in the neighborhoods! This was about 3 weeks ago. It hadn't happened. Life. 

But alas, it did today!  I woke up with a headache but was determined to not let the last day of this crazy warm weather hold me back from finally getting a run in to see all the pretty lights!

Quick text to Kelly and Cristen and it was on!  

We hadn't run together, all three of us, since our training days for the 1/2! I had ran separately with Kelly at SNAPP and with Cristen at the 4 Miler. I was uber excited!   Catching up, random convos about the lights, my lofty goals for next year (separate post in the works!), the holidays, oh, and let's not forget the random silence when all you heard was our labored breathing! What fun it was!! The lights were so pretty! We even wished random people a Merry Christmas and it was returned. It was so nice! 

I felt so great the entire run! I can't remember when I felt THAT GREAT!

Here are some pics of our favorite houses...

Merry Christmas my dear friends! May you have a blessed holiday with family and friends!

Run. Strong. 

-t-

Stair and a little wheezing

So I haven't done any workouts since the Turkey Trot. Again, life. 

So tonight while Nate is at SNAPP, I thought I would do the inside stairwells for some cardio. And after each flight do some burpees (hate), wall sits, sit ups, and lunges. See how far I could get up the stairwell. First set was good. I did 10 arm presses on the heater. Ran up another flight and 25 sit ups. Up another flight and 10 sec wall sit. By this flight, I am wheezing. Wheezing so bad I can feel it in my chest and hear it. I head down. Catch my breath and try to run up another flight. Make it to the first landing and have to stop and walk the second. I am going to get some of these in. And then I really can't breathe. Good thing I am in a hospital! 

I end up walking back down and decide to call it quits. I can't breathe. It hurts to breathe. Ugh. No time to be sick. 

I'm wishing I would have just ran outside and around the hospital parking lot. I wasn't sure it would be clear enough. Duh, I think, it's a hospital; it's gonna be clear. And it was. It may have been bone-chilling cold, but it would have felt better. At least that is what I am telling myself until Thursday when Nate is back here for another session. I will run Thursday. Outside. 

And I am not getting sick.  

Run. Strong. 

-t-