I decided after a really painful day yesterday that I am not going to run or exercise for awhile. I was in a ton of pain last night before bed. I think I may have piriformis syndrome. Either it's that or a herniated disc. I'm not a Doctor so I am not not necessarily going to walk around self diagnosing. So, not good, not good for Lily at all. So, I am not running and no more eliptical hell for awhile until I improve. Who know's how long it will be. In the meantime I will still go to the gym and lift a couple times this week and next. I lifted yesterday and it actually felt a little better when I was done.
So I will try to keep my blog interesting until I am back up and running. So I'll write about how and why I started running. In the fall of 2002 my husband started school full time at the University of Utah. A couple months before, I quit my full time job as a Quality Control inspector for an aerospace company, where I had worked for 5 years. I became a stay at home Mom and my husband was gone all day long. Were talking we saw him maybe an hour a day?! It sucked. So, I felt a little trapped in the house. Randomly this one day, I decided to get a gym membership so I could get a little exercise in early in the mornings before he left. And I won't lie, it was a way to get a little 'me time'. I started waking at 5 am and getting to the gym. I had run a sub 6:30 min mile earlier in my teen years so I knew the ability was inside me somewhere. It started with a walk/jog for a couple months. By 3 months I was into a full run. The gym had a underground oval track so I got off the TM and onto the track. This was funny because there seemed to be a lot of old timers down there and I whipped past them and always got a lot of funny comments like: 'I used to be young dish like you once' and 'I marvel watching you'. LOL! Things that made me laugh. I do have one particular bad memory of that track even to this day. This isn't anything to laugh over either, but, I was inappropriately harassed by the Orem City Fire chief on that track one Saturday afternoon. It was a bad experience. I think he was suspended from his job for awhile as punishment because he was down there running on city time and being inappropriate. Bad memories, so anyways! I just remember that I quickly began to have a love for running from those beginnings. I felt free and happy. I felt so good when I got home. I know it has made me a better Mom and wife because of it. That next spring (spring 2003) I began running outside in my neighborhood every morning and that was so fun. I lived in Orem and it's bigger and busier and so I saw a lot of people, and found a couple running friends. I got faster and faster and consequently, thinner and thinner. Also at this time I would do 4x800's with the Mountain View High School Track
team. The track coach was super awesome to me and didn't mind letting me work out with them. I would actually join them on
their school track just to the west of the gym. (walking distance away).
I really believe that helped me a lot as well. I got pretty good in those workouts,
I also did a lot of running up the Provo Canyon trail. I lived about 1 mile away from the parking lot near the gas station where it starts. On Saturdays I would wake up around 6:30 and get to the trail by 7 and run up that (along with everybody else in Orem/Provo ha!). It was good for me to do that and I got really strong running up and down that trail. I met a few good people on that trail that spring and summer.
Summer of 2004 I ran my very first race. It was just a dinky 5k. Orem City Firemen's run. It was so fun! I did okay, but I didn't know how to race back then. Later that summer I ran the Provo River Trail 1/2 and did a 1:36. I didn't know what I was doing then either LOL. However that is still a great 1/2 time. By this summer I was really really thin and fit. I weight trained with my good friend Kim, who was a 1st place winning body builder. She taught me a ton of stuff. By the fall of that year, my husband and I knew it was time to have another baby. My 2 boys were 5 and 3 1/2. So I tried to get prego and nothing happened for like 5 months. Now you have to understand I am a FERTILE FAIRY. Holy moly it is no lie! So for me to not get pregnant very quick, we thought that was odd. I went to the Dr. The conclusion was that I was running to much, and my body fat was to low to ovulate properly. So I toned down the running. Guess what? 30 days later I got pregnant with my now only Daughter Maile. :) I only gained 17 lbs when I was pregnant with her, because I throw up a lot. I still eliptical helled my life away when I was prego though. So I had good fitness when I started running again after her birth. More continued tomorrow.
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