The Gist

As you can see it has been a few days.  Let me give you gist of what's been going on.  Monday was James' day off. Usually his days off are torture for me.  He eats and snacks all day! Lord I love him, but being married to a skinny guy is sometimes hard for me.  I managed to stay within my calorie goal however, which is fantastic.  Also a victory for Monday, was that I still went for my run.  Usually on his days off I take off too, but I actually WANTED to run.  Weird.  I also find it strange that I refer to them as MY runs.  

Yesterday was a crazy day.  I must have slept funny because I woke up unable to move my neck left or right.  The left side of my neck was injured a few months back, and still bothers me from time to time. So whe I slept wonky and made the right side of my neck sore it was ridiculous.  I must have looked a fool.  In addition to that, the arctic temperatures, no really -11 wind chills, left the metal in my ankle aching.  Yesterday made me feel old.  Old and decrepid.  

You can imagine my delight today then, when I woke with only my normal post injury pain in my neck.  Phew.  I seriously thought I was dying for like two hours.  Glad to say that I am not, in fact, dying.  Today was awesome because I was able to get our routine back.  Even though we have been back in school now for about a week, we sort of edged into it doing shorter days.  Today was really our first all the way back to the grind day. It was nice.  Busy, but nice.  

I had met most of my calorie burn goals (via the body media fit armband) by around 7pm, but still decided to get my run in.   That was a disaster!  A little over half way through my stomach started grumbling.  This is a new experience for me.  I'm no stranger to gas while working out.  It happens to us all, don't deny it... But this was a bit more than just gas.  I carried on for a few minutes before giving in and pausing the work out.  Luckily my bathroom is only a few feet from the treadmill.  

That was fun.

The worst part was that the pause function on my treadmill apparently doesn't last very long, so by the time I was finished it had turned off dumping all of my workout details.  I know I couldn't have been off the treadmill for more than two minutes before it shut off, after all, things were moving quite quickly...

That annoyed me (plus my stomach is still a little shaky) so I decided to call it a night.  I'm bummed that I didn't finish, but at the same time don't want to poop myself trying.  Just saying.  

Tomorrow should be another interesting day, it's our co/op day so  I am out of the house all day.  That's good because it keeps me from mindlessly snacking, but bad because I'm tired and grumpy by the time I get home.  I'm planning a late afternoon run to see if that helps things.  Hopefully I have the energy to pull that off.