Fit with Ruthie

The cost of being sick is the fact that I am not in the best of shape to run 14 long miles this weekend. I was scheduled for a 14miler today but I have decided that the best thing to do is to be patient and let my body recover and get back to normal. I am still feeling a bit tired and yesterday I actually could eat and feel normal. so I have switched this weekends run and next ... 6 miles this weekend (today) and 14 next. I have also have a choice i am pondering... with the kids having track at 7am three days a week I need to switch my run times to the early predawn hours of the morning OR to the late evening. I think its going to work best .. if i am going to be realistic here to go for those runs in the evening. Trying to squeeze, housework, schooling the kids, part time working (teaching), their track and my running is going to be a big challenge. (as always) .. but i know that someday it will just be me and the dh here at the house and this season of my life will be over before i ...

I finally registered for the race :) and bought an extra ticket to the concert that night ... cant believe i am really really doing this.. prices increase tomorrow if you wanna join me .. :)

I know this is not my homeschooling site.. but i just had to post this little video happy playtime :)

ok.. so this is what i did last night instead of running a 5k with Jessica in China :) We got tickets to a big event in town... so .. i am running my 5k with Jessica .. this morning.. more after i run :) UPDATE!!!!!!!!!!! ok.. just finished chatting with Jessica she did GREAT... 8.3 mins per mile! wow thats FAST I made a race # :) see: and had to run on the treadmill cause i couldnt go outside... plan was to get up and out by 615 am but woke up with my tummy hurting :( .... so i waited until after track. not too good.. 30.28 .... which is 9.7 per mile which is not my typical pace but i had literally NO energy... actually got off the mill and grabbed a granola bar and got back on eating and walking really fast at the same time... there was no way i could make it without a bit of something... my energy has been shot... 2 days of liquid.... a "real lunch yesterday" and a sparse supper last night... ugh I am ready... SOOOOO ready for my tummy to be "normal" again heres ...

Lunch never tasted so great! well its been about 4 days since i have had any kind of real appetite ... so this morning when i drove home from a meeting i was surprised to say i was HUNGRY> wow.. yes.. i think i am finally well.. i have been on basically a liquid diet since Monday... and when i did drink ... it didnt make me feel better.. but worse... so its nice to say that i just ate lunch and feel GREAT! ok..so now what to do about running.. today i plan on getting in a 5k (which i am running with my friend Jessica in China and another one of her friends) tomorrow i plan on trying to get an hour run in ... rest on Saturday and 14 miler Sunday morning before worship :) I think i have lost 5lbs over the last 4 days (atleast) .. but i am not to happy about it.. i want to keep the muscle i have and i am afraid some of that was muscle.. but i know that with my hunger back and my body on its way to normal that i will be able to eat and have the energy i need to get those long runs in.. ...

well it wasnt purty. my yesterday .. that is. i felt pretty good until about 1pm.. then it hit me.. chills, fever, and too many reminders of what the flu was like this past Christmas. my fever went up to 102.. i laid around all afternoon and finally went to bed for the night at 830. my sweet DH gave me some more tylenol when he came to bed around 11ish and i slept the rest of the night. this morning i feel better... much much better.. so hopefully i am past the worst of it... I had only liquids all day yesterday so today will be the slow process of eating real food again :) I "plan" not to workout today but to rest .. I hope to run a 5k "race" with my friend Jessica who is in China.. on Thursday.. she will run it at 9ish am on her Friday which will be 8pmish on my Thursday... so.. we will be running a 5k at the same time but on different sides of the world:) should be fun! ok i I am off to see if this apple juice will be allowed in my tummy this morning ..... yall...

i was asking myself this very question on my much shortened morning run.. why plan.. plans give me something to look forward too.. like a nice relaxing hour long run while the sun is rising and the air is cool... but plans have a way of being tested and sometimes shattered. i had planned to be up and out of the house this morning by 630 i woke up at 550 sick to my stomach i had tummy issues (to put it nicely) around midnight last night and this morning i felt like i was going to throw up i stayed up anyway and got dressed to go run.. all the time feeling a bit sick but knowing that i felt a bit sick on sunday and my run made me feel better.. all this "waiting around to see if i was going to toss some cookies" was just a waste of time... i decided that "if this was the morning of the marathon i would be heading to the starting line" so.. i got my shoes on and vowed that if i was going to throw up it would be around the beautiful scripture inscribed walking-running ...