20 miler & feeling good

OK, I'm behind again.. I blame it on my head.. I keep meaning to do it... heck, I also keep meaning to call someone to fix the fridge that has been broken for 3 weeks. I guess because we have a beer fridge in the garage... I just don't get stuff done and am still not me. Anyway - Posting what I wanted to last week. I WILL catch up! :)

I saw the neurologist again and he said it was OK that I ran 17 the other day because I was smart in running with the group and at a slower pace. He gave me the green light to increase my workouts as I see fit (he said before he wants me to interpret how I see best since I know more about running than he does). He said as long as I am smart and stop if there is an issue. He also had me scheduled for a brain scan.

Thursday 3/17, I had down 3x1 mile. OK.. this is actually the last track workout I had done.. I had 1 mile, 2 mile, 2x800 that I turned into 3x1 mile with 2x800 when my ears popped and blew off the 800's and made the appointment for the neurologist - so kind of ironic. The pace was the same as what I did before - a hair slower than 7. I started on the first, no problem except I forgot to take my inhaler (ugh! - this makes me breathe harder and can raise my HR which is bad for my noggin). I waited for my friend to finish hers (around 8 minutes) then we did 1 lap rest. I took the inhaler of course, then started #2. My head started hurting on lap 2. On lap 3, my arm went numb. UGH!!! I was well behaved and didn't finish the lap, I stopped after 300 meters of it, then when my friend came back around, ran the rest with her. My class showed so I bagged the 3rd (was going to do at 8 pace) and ran the warm up with my class. They had 400's so I ran all over the field. I ran one with my fastest girl who was going at 7 minute mile pace and woah - that felt like 6 minute mile to me. Workout over, just cooled down.

Friday the doc left a message on my voice mail - no brain bleed, no blood clot, no bruise. So far, it looks like the brain should heal itself in time. I'm a go for Sunday. Saturday I entered the "Masters category". Sunday I headed out to coach the 9:30/mile pace group for their 20. Surprisingly, I spent the majority of it in the front telling them to slow down. It was a really hilly loop. We stop every couple miles and at 12 I noticed my stomach was VERY punchy. That was my only issue. The sun came out and it got very warm. I let them pick it up for the last 4 miles and we ran right at 9 pace. I kind of charged a small hill at 19 and saw my legs still responded. I was dehydrated from doing shots the day before. Bad, but what can you do. Oh, and my feet were in pain when I woke up that morning from wearing high heals from going out. Hey, I didn't plan a 20 mile run the day after my birthday.. I would have slept in.. heck, I'm old. Anyway, the run gave me confidence. :)

When I was getting my brain scan, some woman who was there for a test looked at me and said, "was it a man?". HAHAHAHAHA!!! I looked at her, taken aback and said, "no", she said, "You need to leave him", then I busted up laughing so hard, I said, "no, it wasn't a man". HAHAHAHA!! Heck, it was a little old woman in her upper 80's if not 90 years old! HAHAHA!!! Never even thought about having a head injury and anyone thinking my husband beat me. I now find it important to mention how it happened quickly after someone finds out. HAHAHA!!! I'll post about last weekend soon!! :) hopefully I will have called someone about the fridge by then.