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On the road to recovery…

17 Jun

I got up this morning, and fought my way out of bed and to the park to join my group run.  I hadn’t seen  my run dawgs in about 2 weeks and I was sure I was getting my butt kicked.  As a result, I spent 25 minutes hoping it would thunderstorm. It NEVER did!

I won’t go into a long sordid story about how I was partnered with a newbie runner that fed me her dust for 3 miles straight, or how my obliques and lower abs felt like Satan was taking a smoke break on them.  The short version is, it was difficult!!!  I did a little over 3 miles in 28:45 minutes, then at the command of my body, switched to intervals for 1.5 miles (alternating sprints 150 meters/walk 100 meters) for a total miles 4.55 in 47 minutes/average pace 10:23.

I can live with that!  I also went to Ballet tonight.  Jeez!!!  The preparation for this new job is KILLING my body.  However, it’ll all make sense when I step in to teach my first class.  Those students have NO idea what’s coming their way.

In other news, my favorite trainer, Miss Angel Stone AKA my girl crush, is having a great discussion on her blog, Fit and Hungry, about why African-American women don’t statistically exercise as much as their fairer skinned counter parts.  The discussion has stemmed from an interview she did on the founders of BlackGirlsRun.  It’s  a cool post.  So when you get a chance mosey on over there and chime in.  Then come back here and play with me, Ok?!

Toddle-Loo (I don’t think I’ve ever wrote that out, and am sure it’s not spelled right, but you get the point!  If not, it’s synonymous with Laters! )

An anonymous black girl who despises having abs that look much stronger than they really are ={

Ouchie!

14 Jun

Is it possible to break an abdominal muscle?  Wait!  Are you laughing?  Stop it!  This is serious bidness…

Last Wednesday I went to the gym with a friend.  We did about 30 mins of cardio (running on a treadmill, my favorite thing in the whole world…NOT!!!)  When I got to my thirty minutes, of running in place in pure  HEAT (WHY IS IT SO HOT IN GYMS) I was ready to jump off that damned torture device.  She decided to move to 30 more minutes on the elliptical, so I headed for weightlifting.  Started on the legs.  I did the usual machines, though all the machines in her gym are souped up versions, I guess to justify the $90 a month membership fee.  Then headed downstairs to work on arms and abs.  Actually, I don’t really do much in the way of abs at a gym, as I work on abs everyday.  But today decided to try the incline bench.  3 sets of 15 sit-ups on about a 45 degree incline.  Actually wasn’t that hard…so I moved on and started arms.

They had these machines, I think they were called “Rock-Its” or something like that.  They really didn’t feel to be working much but I thought it was super cool that as I worked, the machine moved.  So I kept doing it, trying to go faster and faster.  It was sooooo fun and reminded me of a ride at an amusement park.  When I realized that I was having way too much fun and was doing virtually no work, I moved to working on my pecs and triceps.  This, as usual, hurt.

Anyway, my friend finally came downstairs and asked me to help her with ab work.  I totally stole some exercises with the ball from my sessions with my trainer.  However, I hadn’t done some of that stuff in a while, so there’s a good possibility I didn’t do it right and even though I felt NOTHING while I was working with her, the next day my abs were SCREAMING!  Actually, first it started in my chest that night.  Any of you that have had kids know what it feels like when I say the soreness “felt like my milk was coming in”.  For those that don’t know, trust me, it hurt like HELL!

The, next day, I went to class and tried to do my ab workout and stopped dead in my tracks.  I couldn’t do ONE crunch.  My students were looking at me in sheer disbelief.  Very embarrassing when you are requesting your students to do 48 crunches and you can’t do one.  Now one might say, “sounds like to got a good workout.”  However, the fact that 4 days later, I still can’t sit up without rolling on my side…probably NOT so good!  It literally feels like I’ve had a c-section.  And even though, I don’t know what that feels like, I’m sure this is how it’d feel.  Needless to say, I’ve gotten very little exercise since.  Tried to convince myself to get up on Saturday and go running.  Then realized that I rely a lot on my core when I run and I just didn’t feel the need to experience that pain.  Tomorrow, I’m supposed to go to spinning…and am afraid, I might die.

Has anyone ever experienced this?  And, more importantly, what do I do to make it better?

I want my mommy, NOW!!!!

Near-death experience…twice!

7 Jun

So this is not a joke, I was almost taken out during my run on Friday and I am just getting my nerves up to speak about it! Well, actually, I got my nerve back ten minutes later BUT I have just been working ALL weekend.

I’ve almost been hit by a car about 3 times in my life, so you’d think I’d be used to it by now.  But not so much.  Long story short: End of my run that was going super well.  Actually finished 4 miles in 38 minutes, which in 75 degree weather is GREAT, at least for me.  The last part of the run, the dreaded hill, was trying.  So I put on my headphones just to take my mind off it.  I realize that people say you shouldn’t listen to music so much that you aren’t aware of your surroundings, and I wasn’t.  I am a big chicken and run pretty defensively.  I always look around, head up, volume down enough to hear bikers calling out, or cars honking, or dogs coming behind me searching for lunch.  And the crazy thing is I saw the dumb a$$hole. (more…)

Where in the World is BGirl875?

26 May

It’s been exactly 12 days since my last post, and I have so much to tell you all.

First, even though you haven’t heard much from me, I HAVE been running.  I’ve done a few morning runs with KT and my usual group runs, of which I am growing SUPER bored.  I’m at the point where I just put my headphones on from the start in hopes that the same old route will feel different with a different soundtrack.  But alas… (more…)

A Small Victory in the World of Bgirl875

14 May

Before we start, some mood music.  Please listen, then finish reading post.

Just had to share that in the event you are having an icky day.  This song is proven to completely make you forget about it and put you in a great mode.  That way, I won’t feel bad making you read a post on how absolutely great I feel today :oops: (more…)

Running with The Spawn

13 May

Today, I did something I thought I would never do.  I convinced my teenage daughter to come running with me.  Now, before we get all excited let me clarify a couple of things.

One, by “convinced” I actually mean “bribed” her to do it.  She got an essay assignment from me for making a really poor decision last weekend that, in another household, would have probably resulted in at least one week of grounding or in Joe Jackson’s household, a good old fashioned A$$ whoopin’.  But since my daughter is usually pretty well behaved (for a teen), I opted to reduce her sentence to an essay explaining better alternatives that she could have chosen in the situation that resulted in said punishment.  I won’t go into that but I am convinced that once girls stop playing with dolls and start boy-gazing, they lose about 25% of their brain cells.   Soooo annoying!

Anywho, (more…)

Who’s Bad?

7 May

4.73 miles in 46 minutes!

It was a gorgeous 55 degrees outside and clear when I started running today.  And the “pollen keepers” even kept the pollen at bay until the end.  However, parking sucked pork butt.  It took me 4 times the normal time to find a parking space.  So glad my group waited. (more…)

Say it isn’t so, ‘lil Steddy

5 May

Today, me and Steddy had our first spat.  He wouldn’t “locate a satellite” until a mile in my run.  I thought at first Steddy was being typical but realized all of my running mates were having similar problems.  So I am giving him a pass…However, if he doesn’t shape up, I’m going to give him a piece of my mind.

Speaking of minds, mine is having an ADD day today, so here is some “mind vomit” for you.  Very condensed. (more…)

Introducing…Stedman

28 Apr

Hey Oprah, I have a Stedman too!

My “Lil Steddy” is slim, dark and handsome, oh and slightly bulky in all the right places.  He runs with me, helping me along the way.  Today he yelled at me for going too fast/slow.  Yep, he know what I want and need and keeps me right on target.  I’m in love! (more…)

There’s a new G in town

24 Apr

So yesterday I headed out for my first run with the New Garmin. Yep, I got a Garmin, I got a Garmin. I’m EXCITED, can you tell? Well, I can’t really say new, it’s new-sed, as I bought it from a guy on Craig’s list who referred to pants as trousers. Needless to say I was super stoked to try it out. I usually do one run per week with the group since that’s all I can handle with all the talking they prefer to do. But this week, I had to go back.  When I woke up in the morning, my knees literally jumped out of their sockets and said “Oh hell no!” Apparently, they weren’t excited about the impending 4.5 mile run. We made a compromise, we would get a short run in, just so I could play with the Garmin, but cut it short if needed. (more…)

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