Asphalt Junkies Spring 2013 - Closed (Page 102)

On a Boston note - adidas is selling shirts and all proceeds go to victims... pretty cool

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Tracy, congrats on your friend running.

Matt so glad you've got the IT band under control.  Still be careful!  Get ready for HIM training...

Got a 5k fun run this Sat.  They are encouraging everyone to wear blue and yellow.  Wife and others made up a lot of ribbons for the runners.  Then Sunday they are doing a 5.2 mile run to "help" someone, (not sure who) finish Boston that was pulled from the course.  The proceeds are going to Boston.

Today did small rolling hill repeats and intervals in the biggest gear, thank goodness it was a short session!

Tracy I'm very happy to hear that your friend has recovered and she is back to running. That is so awesome and she has definitely come a long way to get back to running.

Karl good luck to you in the 5K this weekend and anyone else doing a run. I know that there are many organized runs this weekend to honor and raise money for Boston. If they were doing one near me I'd be running this weekend as well.

As many of you probably know by now, there is huge news going on in the marathon case.  One suspect is dead and the other is currently being tracked and it sounds like he's armed with grenades and other heavy explosives.  An MIT police officer was killed in a carjacking last night, and that started the manhunt.  The area is on complete lockdown and the city is on edge waiting to hear anything.

This is just a tragic week back here.

I was shocked to wake up to this news.  I'm very glad my friends are home.  I hope everyone stays safe.

x2 unbelievable, the news has been covering this story all day. Warren and Jonathan take care of yourselves and your families, be careful and be safe.

My Race Report is up.  It is very, very long.  But I have to say I still have a lot of struggle posting it.  To allow others to read something about a race is still mentally straining.  And to be more honest, I suppose I felt the peer pressure to get it up this soon.  I know you all would have understood, but I have had others ask me to place it up too.  I haven't decided if I will place it on facebook just yet.  For those of you who are FB friends it may not appear until tomorrow or Sunday.  Many of the other people I know would like to read it, including my extended family.  I don't know if I ready to read and hear comments about it yet.  I am struggling with respect to the loss of life and the maiming that occurred.

I am planning to run a Boston support run on Sunday and maybe that will bring a little bit of a sense of relief being around some people who were either there or knew some of us who were running.

I may or may not be posting within the group for a bit longer as I work myself through the mental strains.  I go back and forth between anger and joy.  Then I feel guilty about having a good feeling about something that ended so tragically.  I'll be back to normal in a few days.

Make sure to have plenty of time to read because it's going to take a long time to cover the reading.

Jo63 - 2013-04-20 5:24 AM Not sure what I was looking at yesterday when I thought we were archived lol. It is actually sunny here today!!! With all the rain we came home Thursday to discover our pool is sinking into the ground the water has almost drained out it is buckling in and is literally sinking. Thank god it has stopped raining. I have a run this morning and am going to lunch with 3 of my sisters. Can't wait to get outside!

Ummmm.....wow!  I hope you are able to do something about the pool!  Not good!

Hi everyone,

I know I haven't been posting in awhile. I do still read the thread and wish I could be more active on it...as you guys know, I've been trying to get back into training, but it's just seemed like an uphill battle. I let other things take priority and have a hard time advocating for my needs sometimes. The past year I have not been myself and things that used to be easy have become overwhelming. There has been many days where I just focus on getting through the day.

I've been trying to pull myself out of it on my own for over a year. I know my life is good. My family is healthy, we have what we need. Events like Sandy Hook and the tragedy in Boston make me feel awful for complaining. And for the most part, I don't. I just hold it inside.

But I'm sick of feeling so stressed out and overwhlemed when nothing is really wrong. I have a history of depression and anxiety in my family, so I finally made an appointment to go to my doctor (which I have been thinking about doing for months). He put me on some meds for depression and anxiety so we will see how it goes. We may have to play around with it before we find what gets me back to "normal".

I'm feeling positive about it. The other day a cowork was being ridiculous and I was able to just ignore it and not care (truly-not faking it. normally these things eat away at me). Also (and this is the best) 2 days ago I threw a baseball to my 5 year old for like 45 mins and enjoyed playing with him. Normally, I would find excuses not to or force myself to do it and feel exhausted the whole time. So hopefully there will be more of this to come. 

RunningYogini - 2013-04-20 9:45 AM My little munchkin is 4 years old today!!!!   (He was born during the Boston Marathon.  Auspicious indeed!)

Tracy Happy Birthday to your son. I hope you guys have a great day celebrating it.

Jackie I hope things get back on track for you and that your feeling better soon. Certainly training should take a back seat to you feeling better and feeling happy. It sounds like you are headed in the right direction. Please keep us posted on how you're feeling and doing.

Dirk. great race report, just thinking of you...

Jo, good luck w/ the pool...yikes sounds like a sink hole?

Tracy, happy b'day to the munchkin!

We went to see the movie "Homerun" last night, it was a very good movie.

We are goig to early church today, then I'm going to run to the gym, work out there and run home.  After lunch I need to go for a swim but that may be to optomistic and today at 5:00 pm we are going to finish the Boston for a person, gosh this town has rallied.  They had to change the race location due to so many people coming to run.

Hope ya'll have a GREAT day.

Alright Junkies, just when you got used to things being quiet around here without me, I think I'm starting to rally a little. I'm even thinking about racing a sprint in May if it works out with my schedule. Better yet, I'm seriously looking at purchasing a new bike A cross bike this time so I could ride on trails and the road. Then I would sell my road bike. Just something I'm thinking about but if anyone has any input on cross bikes I'm all ears.

The good news is I've been riding my tri bike more and I have not had anymore issues with my back flaring up. I've also been able to increase my swim distance to 3000 yards for my most recent workouts. Now I've just got to find a way to keep my feet happy so I can run again.

This latest issue seems to be the start of extensor tendonitis. The nurse practitioner put me on an oral steroide right away because she knows how things flare up for me and then hang around for months. I stopped running again for a couple of weeks. As of today I got out of bed without pain but also took my last dose of the meds so I will wait a while longer to see how things go.

Happy Sunday!

Thanks for the update. I've been checking in on you and noticed things were quiet in your log. I wondered how you were doing. I'm happy to read you are finding something to help. I know how difficult it can be when my moods seem out of control so I truly sympathize with what you are going through and applaud that you are taking steps to get things under control.

As I age my monthly mood swings got really out of whack. I hit rock bottom last spring when I could not stop crying, everything felt hopeless and unmanageable. I knew it was just my hormones but it was still very overwhelming. I told my kids that day "Mommy is on strike." I have been moody before but this was different. I've since started taking some herbal stuff that has helped a lot but I always put off going to the doctor so I commend you for taking charge like that. Just wanted you to know you are not alone.