This week was fun — and a little out of the norm! While I stayed active, a few things kept me from my regularly scheduled workouts this week:

1. GM was still home from school, which meant my days were filled with working and hanging out with him. It was a little crazy so some mornings or even lunches when I would normally be working out, I was instead catching up on work and life stuff to accommodate being with him most days
2. I headed to Sedona for a girls trip! This meant no normal weight workouts or runs for the long weekend – but instead, lots of fun and catching up with girl friends, which I can’t complain about.

Knowing this, here is what the week looked like:

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Happy Hallo-weekend! We had a great time celebrating Halloween despite everything going on (including my son and his appendix taken out last week) and I truly can’t believe we’re in NOVEMBER.

October was an interesting month – I was coming off an injury and starting to run again, we had two fun races, and I continued lifting weights and walking. It’s the first month in a while that I actually have running mileage to report! While not my traditional numbers, I’m still pleased that i got in some runs. Here were some October highlights:

• I did 2 races! I got in the Happy 5K and Bulldog Bolt 5K with my son – we ran/walked them as I was recovering from my hip injury.
• I kept up my weight training.
• I started running again – I’m still recovering and trying to walk/run as much as I can, as well as not run daily. But that’s hard!
• Total miles: 101.63 miles

Here’s what the week looked like:

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While I’m still recovering from my hip injury, I’m mostly taking it easy on my runs. But this week included an unplanned rest day on Friday — not related to anything with my body. Instead, my youngest was in the ER for an emergency appendectomy so we spent the day (and night before) at the hospital. Anyway, I digress – besides that, we had an uneventful week! And now we’re focused on recovery, and relaxing, enjoying some (hopefully) good fall weather.

Here’s what the week looked like:

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You know what’s hard? Not running every day! I’m getting back into running and in my past life (aka a few months ago) this would’ve meant running daily. Over the summer I was hitting 40+ mile weeks, running 5-10 miles in the morning before work or on the weekend. But, we all know what happened – I got injured!

So, I’m trying to get back out there, but also taking it somewhat easy. This means fitting in running, walking and weight lifting – but nothing too crazy. For now, that looks like run/walks and NOT every day. Oh yeah, and having fun! This week that meant a few runs, some walking, some weight lifting, and also the Bulldog Bolt 5K/fun run at my kids’ school! So, here’s what that meant for this week:

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After running a few days last week, I’m still trying to get back to “normal” – but also listen to my body and make sure I’m recovered. Who would have thought it would be so hard not to run? I’m sure runners would understand this but if you’re not a runner, telling yourself you can’t run sounds like an easy enough to ask. It is very much a mental exercise, forcing myself to not run!

I tried to focus heavily on the cross training this week – with weights, body weight workouts, walking and cycling, and just a few days of running. I’m hoping that all this will pay off, and I’ll recover stronger!

Here’s what the week looked like:

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