Runner Susan

Be True to Your Blog

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5AM Workout – 30 min on Elliptical, upper body weights & abs. Very, very tired this morning. Left foot painful – 3rd metatarsal. Weight 128.2. 8:15am and still no bm. I’m wearing my favorite Carlos Santana Birdcage shoes today. 7PM workout – walked 1 hour – 238 calories burned.

Breakfast: egg beaters with salsa, coffee. I’m still hungry – my avocado was rotten this morning. I may have to get a granola bar – maybe not, not sure yet – maybe a pop tart, i’m so hungry – but I will document it, the calories still count even if it’s not blogged – I will be true to my blog, I will let you know my food choice soon. Ok, I ate a sample bite of chicken salad sandwich from Starbucks and have a grande coffee. Still hungry. Snack: 2 snackwell cookier – 120 calories. Lunch: grilled chicken salad – tomatoes, cucumber, onion, one roll. Dinner: one whole wheat pita with feta, tomatoes & balsamic vinigar.

2-a-days

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This weeks starts the two-a-day workouts! Of course, picking the hottest time and most intense part of the training program – it makes perfect sense. Tuesdays and Thursdays are our goal. This week it will be Wednesday and Thursday.

Oh, so tired at the gym this morning – I felt like it was 3:30 am when I woke up and not 4:30. This is a bad feeling, don’t like it. 30 minutes of cross training on the elliptical, upper body weights, with some ab work.

Breakfast: 1/4 c egg beaters w 2 tbs salsa – 40 calories, coffee – 40 calories, 1 small avocado – 242 calories. Snack: having diet coke right now, very hungry resisting the urge to eat. Lunch: World’s largest salad – lettuce, red kidney beans, chickpeas, spinach, cucumbers, radish, olives, eggs, little cheese, onions, and imitation 6-year old with ranch, balsamic vinegar & olive oil. Few bites of veggie soup and a lettuce wrap with taco meat and tomatoes on it. I’m not quite sure how to document this meal. I’ll have to wait until I get home. I don’t know, I’m guessing 400 calories. Dinner: fajita meat, 1 tbs sour cream, salsa, guacamole, onions and a little cheese – maybe a sprinkle. No tortilla – 330 calories. One frozen margarita – 170 calories.

Total calories: 1142
Workout calories burned: 98
Weight: 129

Tragedy Strikes a Runner

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Two miles into a 15 mile run – my loyal running partner of two years died. No explanation, no warning – just sudden death. I tried to resuscitate her for 15 min, but it was too late she was gone. I don’t think I will be able to recover. She was perfect in every way, shape and form. The autopsy is on Monday, and I will let everyone know the cause of death and when the funeral services will be.

I just don’t understand how something so loved and perfect could meet such an unfortunate demise. All of you have her me say a million times – if I didn’t have such a wonderful husband – I would marry her. She’s made it through two marathons and torturous workouts in 100 degree weather. She changed the way I ran.

This is a very dark day. Very dark indeed.

Almost too much to bear, I contemplated not finishing my run today. But, I knew I had to do it – do it for her. I hit the course and headed out to meet the rest of my group. Since I was behind the group by about 25 minutes, I came up with a brilliant idea to run the course backwards and meet them half way and then turn around and run the rest of the course with them. Seemed like a fairly simple idea, until my *special* navigation skills came into play. Missing my right turn on FM Road, I managed to head down Simmons an additional two miles. Thankfully, a couple cyclists were able to point me in the right direction. Who knows where I would have ended up.

All-in-all, I walked about a two mile warm-up. Ran one very fast mile – rushing my dear friend to the emergency room. Then I ran 12.8 miles at a 10:36 pace. Certainly not the pace I was looking for, but faster than other training runs I’ve had.

Adventures in Marking the Course

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What a beautiful Flower Mound country side we have. We had a lovely tour this morning. I have to say, I’m not very good at calculating mileage. I think we will have a good course to run on Sunday – and I’m very excited about that. I would love to finish the course in 2 hrs 15 min – that would put me at 9 min miles exactly. If I finish in 2:30 – I’ll be ok, that would be 10 min miles. My weight this morning was a lovely 129.4.

Breakfast – coffee – 40 calories, scrambled eggs – 155 calories, 10 peanuts – 59 calories
Lunch – ok, so I think I went overboard at lunch – 6″ turkey sub with lf mayo and american cheese, lettuce, pickles, onion, banana peppers and olives – 365 calories. BBQ Baked Chips – 140 calories. That’s 505 calories – 1/2 my calories for the day right here.
Snack – 1 chocolate chip – 3 calories, 3 hershey kisses – 75 calories
Dinner – not sure I can accurately calculate because I ate more than any human should eat – Ok, here we go: Penne with marianra and meat sauce – 357 calories, wedge salad with blue cheese – 218 calories, bread – 89 calories, small glass red wine – 87 calories
Dinner Snack – Strawberry Smoothie – 210
Running total: 1798 big fat calories – I’m putting this in red to flag everyone I may die of heart disease tonight.

Flagpole 8k pictures

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New Blog – trying something different
Here is a picture from the Flagpole 8k – Finish time 51:37.


Workout – 30 min cross training and upper body weights – tired this morning. I think I shrank my new workout shirt in the wash – makes me sad, oh well – when I get thin it will fit. I’m really bloated today – I think from the soy sauce of last night’s meal. I didn’t count soy in calories, hmmm. Never thought about it. I’ll have to check it out. I’m going to move running pictures over to this site to so they can inspire me. I’ll have to do that at home – hm or I wonder if I can do it from here – I doubt it – but I will check. It worked. Calories burned – 138

Breakfast – coffee 60 calories
Banana – 132 calories

Snack – Iced Chai Soy Latte – 170 calories

Lunch – 1/2 Chicken & Spincach Enchilada 200 calories roasted green beans and new potatoes – 81 calories
diet coke

Snack – two hershey kisses – 50 calories

Dinner – rice, zuccini, onion, mushroom, chicken – 294 calories
water, diet coke

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