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October 2012

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CA,USA

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Nov 01, 2011

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runner since 2003.

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Like the founder of this blog, my name is Sasha. I live in Utah most of the time, but sometimes I live in other places. My partner in life and running is a year-old blue heeler (ACD).

I most prefer to run in the forest, but anywhere is fine. I don't usually train for anything in particular. I just like to run.

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Mundial Team Lifetime Miles: 24.00
Copa Mundial Lifetime Miles: 12.00
Lunarglide Lifetime Miles: 26.65
Total Distance
32.05
Lunarglide Miles: 17.05Copa Mundial Miles: 9.00Mundial Team Miles: 4.00
Total Distance
2.00

It rained, so they closed the soccer fields and cancelled my game (BOO HISS). Ran two miles on the middle school track, straight this time. A little pain but mostly okay. One day at a time.

Really missing Colorado....

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Swam today. For a while. It was good.

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1.50

Yoga teacher was the substitute I don't like. She's usually a Pilates teacher (I have an unfair bias against Pilates because most of the people I meet who do it are MAD neurotic and I sure don't need to encourage that in myself). Anyway, the last time I took a class she subbed for, my back hurt all week. No thank you.

So I ran a mile and a half and then I went to go drink beer.

Lunarglide Miles: 1.50
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3.00

Three miles (plus a little, actually more like four) on the track, running a mile then walking 0.25. Felt okay, a little twinge in the left knee. I've been having pain not so much in my shins but right below my knee, on the inside, in that little divot on the side of my tibia between it and my calf muscle, right at the top. Maybe something attaches there? Dunno.

Thinking of moving to Colorado. Lots of runners there.

Lunarglide Miles: 3.00
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So bad about entering things in here lately! You'd think I would be all excited to do so. Actually, I am.

Soccer game with womens'. We lost pretty badly. I ran into a girl late in the first half and twisted my right ankle-- the one I sprained last fall. That's what I get for playing rough, and also for not doing my therapy. Anyway, I think it'll be better in just a few days.

Copa Mundial Miles: 3.00
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Little America's Cup-- sailing all day! And a few cartwheels to round off my good day of upper body/core crosstraining (;

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lather, rinse, repeat: Monday night futbol. We won 4-1 despite playing 8 against 9 most of the game, and even 7 against 9 for a while. Two assists. I'm glad I didn't listen to my PT when she told me not to play.... Ankle is doing pretty well.

Copa Mundial Miles: 3.00
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Morning yoga. So lovely.

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3.00

Refereed a U10 Boys soccer game. They are so mad cute!

Mundial Team Miles: 3.00
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Power yoga with my favorite teacher, Ashley. She beat us up! I have never sweated so much in yoga.

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Sailing races all day. Shoulders haven't been this sore in years and I have big gorgeous floral bruises blooming on my left shoulder and right hip. Plus, as always, both legs from the knee down are patchy red and purple and blue. Lots of bruises are the price you pay for great wind and a solid adventure on the water.

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Rest day in prep for tomorrow: back-to-back games, playing the first and refereeing the second on the line. I also need to start actually building my mileage up-- I think I've done enough consecutive six-mile weeks. I want to slowly pull myself back into a fairly normal running pattern: build to 4-5 days per week running, with one of those days "long," whatever that happens to be (currently I think my long run is like... five miles). So this week I'll have Monday soccer, which I'm counting as a run so I don't stress myself, Thursday run 3, and Friday run 5. I wish I didn't have to squish them together like that but I think it's better than making my long run Sunday, which would put it the day before Monday Night Futbol. Maybe I should swap and do M/W/F? I dunno. I'll contemplate that as I'm reffing tonight.

so, tentatively: tomorrow soccer, tuesday upper body weights, wednesday run three easy, thursday swim, friday yoga and run, saturday sailing, sunday yoga and maybe go for a hike.

 

Gosh, my life sounds fun.

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4.00

Crazy!

We didn't have any subs and all our best players were gone, so I had to play Center Mid the entire game (two 40-minute halves). So, at least, I am now aware that I can run for basically an hour and a half. That's good. The second game, when I had to referee, was of course not as much running, but still by the time it was done at 9:30 (kickoff for the first game was at 6), I was pretty beat. I called G and whined at him on the phone a little because I was stretching and it was painful. My knees hurt. My toes hurt. My shins hurt a little but they are not broken! So things are good.

Gave myself 4 miles, trying to be conservative-- I played the whole time, but the games were only 80 minutes and the field was small.

Mundial Team Miles: 1.00Copa Mundial Miles: 3.00
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Yo yo, yo-yo yoooogaaaaa (to the tune of "Lola")

Anyway, I'm still sore from Monday, which is nuts. I actually "rested" yesterday, by which I mean I gave into peer pressure and went to Trivia Night and drank margaritas.

On a less failure-ific note, my friend K (of shirtless Barbarian Challenge fame) is helping me quit even my occasional smoking habit. Living in the South, I have a lot of occasional-smoker friends, and I tend to hang out with them on the weekend or in the evening or both, which of course is when occasional smokers will be smoking. But, I have to stop doing that, so K and I set up a system: every time I smoke a cigarette, I have to text her and tell her. Because I am very weak in the face of peer pressure (see above), I tend to just accept when someone offers me a cigarette, because they usually want someone to smoke with. So far this is working pretty well, and I told all my smoker friends that I am doing it, so they'd stop offering. I think it is going to work great!

I think I said I was going to swim tomorrow, but I might run or at least elliptical instead.

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Warmed up 1mi @10:00 pace, ran 1.5 @ 9:05 pace, then cooled down walking half a mile.

 Little by little.

PM: Arms workout. Not too much, as I was tired from work and the earlier workout, but did a few sets of pullups/one-armed dumbbell rows and then bench press/tricep extensions. I am a lot weaker than I was in the spring-- I used to be able to do whole sets of 5 pull-ups, but now I have to do sets of 3 and then rest a sec, then two slow negatives. Also, I am down to 20# tricep extensions instead of 30#. goals.

Lunarglide Miles: 3.00
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Headed straight to the gym in the morning just to get it out of the way. Three miles.

Lunarglide Miles: 3.00
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Really tough 40-minute aerobic interval workout on our NordicTrack. I wanted to spend a day doing something lower-impact, just to make sure I didn't stress my bones, etc. I was tired afterwards!

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Went to soccer, but the girls wimped out on me because it was "cold" and we were "clearly going to lose." So we forfeited and I let A. talk me into going for a beer. Oh well. tomorrow!

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2.55

A.M.:  woke up super late and decided to just go to the gym and work a half day. I ran 2.55 on the treadmill. Medium.

P.M.:  drove all the way down to South Huntsville to play pickup... but there was no one there. I am going to have to find some Northerners who aren't scared of the cold so I can play soccer all winter. This is just ridiculous. So I went to the Castle and ate chicken and rice soup with my friends. Kind of didn't realize I hadn't eaten all day. S makes the beeesssst chicken and rice so it's all good.

Lunarglide Miles: 2.55
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4.00

Gym after work. Ran and walked alternately BUT for four miles. It's the first time I've done that since April so I was kind of happy about it.

Lunarglide Miles: 4.00
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32.05
Lunarglide Miles: 17.05Copa Mundial Miles: 9.00Mundial Team Miles: 4.00
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