The duck is waddling around once again!

Week Six:

2/21/11 - Day one: 3 miles in 38 minutes Scheduled: 3

2/23/11 - Day two: 4 miles in 50 minutes Scheduled: 4

2/24/11 - Day three: 3 miles in 35 minutes Scheduled: 3

2/26/11 - Day four: 7 miles in 76 minutes Scheduled: 7

I am VERY happy to say I am up and running again! This has been a rough couple weeks. First I hurt my ankle by pushing myself too hard and too fast. Lesson learned. The next week I got food poisoning and was nearly DYING the next four days (I can never eat yogurt again...) See the bottom of the post of you want the details of that lovely story! And this week my knee was hurting pretty badly so I iced it and rested a few days but it's doing okay now.

It felt so great to run again. It's amazing how much I felt I "fell behind" and how tired I was starting up again. Oh, I also tried using Clif Blocks during this long run and it really helped me keep up my energy. Next week I'll try Gu for the first time. I'll keep you updated!

I bought my first marathon sticker this week too... 26.2 will be posted on my car to remind me daily! :D

FOOD POISONING...

Last Friday around 9:00 AM while working at Dr. Ellis's office, I got pretty hungry. I only brought leftover Texas Roadhouse (YUM!) for lunch and didn't want to ruin it and eat that so early. So I decided to eat my healthy, dumb little yogurt I'm never tempted to eat. I opened it up and it looked a little... chunky so I looked at the expiration date. It said MARCH. Being early February, I thought it MUST be safe! So I took a couple bites.. and it tasted kinda funky. I took one more bite and threw the rest away. (Note, it was "Carrot cake" flavor [I know, I know- I don't know why I thought that would be good!] and I wasn't totally sure if that was the reasoning for the weirdness) About 2 1/2 hours later I started feeling funny. I didn't want to eat anything, not even my leftover Texas Roadhouse!! About an hour after that, I had to RUN to the bathroom and I started throwing up non-stop. Then the other end started.. I had two more patients for the day and after each one, I ran to the bathroom again. Dr. Ellis joked and said I was "Glowing" and asked what me and Jonathon planned to name it. LOL. I was 98% sure I wasn't pregnant, but you never know for sure until Aunty Flow comes each month! Anyway, the next two days were hell. I was so weak and couldn't eat anything without it coming back up/out. The next couple days after that were better but I still wasn't myself and couldn't do much of anything. I tried going to the BYU vs Utah basketball game and had to sit most of the time or have Jonathon help me. I even went out and laid on the sidewalk during half time and had to finally get up and go back in after five people asked if I was okay! ANYWAY, I will never eat yogurt again. OR at least not for a LONG, LONG time!!