It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time

So I'm feeling good. Sort of. Almost. I noticed, however, that my legs were starting to hurt, but not from the marathon - they wanted me to move them again! So I decided to brave the gym (despite the blister that is on the ball of my left foot and way under a callous, thus making a feeling as though I am walking on a sharp rock). I did 45 minutes on the elliptical machine and called it an evening. I felt pretty good afterwards. This is the first time I hit the gym since the MCM, and it didn't tire me out!

After the trip to the gym, I went home, took a shower, dolled myself up and made an appearance at my Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo committee meeting/auction. Being that it's a rodeo event, I wanted to wear my boots. They have heels on them. Bad idea. I ended up barefoot less than two hours later. My feet were killing me! I guess they're still sensitive from the marathon.

Today at work, my feet were feeling the brief time in the boots, especially that pesky blister. I am so happy, however, that my legs don't hurt! I'm going to go to the gym in an hour (after my dinner settles) to work out another 45 minutes. I need to get back into a steady workout regimen (one that's been suffering since school started). If I do 45 minutes on the elliptical and 20 on weights, I'll be a happy camper.

When will I start running? When the damn blister heals. It hurts that bad. I tried to pop it today (sorry, I know it's disgusting, but I was desparate), but it is so far underneath a callous that I wasn't successful. I was afraid I'd stick the pin into my bone. So I guess I will just have to suffer. The elliptical machine, however, is easy to do since your feet don't move - your legs do. I want to try to run Sunday. We shall see.

Oh! I ran into another friend of mine who was supposed to run the MCM - he bailed out. But he told my sister that he's doing the Houston half, and since she and I are doing it we invited him to trot along with us (since we're slow). So now the three of us will jog it together.

Yes, my sister is going to do the Houston Half. We start training Sunday. She's a very serious asthmatic, so I'm pretty sure we're going to be walking most of it, which is fine since I hope to do the New Orleans marathon two weeks later. We're going to start with a simple loop around Memorial Sunday morning (but by the time she shows up, I hope to have done two loops). She doesn't run at all, so we'll probably be doing run 1 walk 4 or run 1 walk 5. We just want her to finish.

I am going to work on increasing mileage and dropping 30 pounds. For those who don't know me, I weigh around 190. I know that to have a good marathon I need to drop at least 50 pounds, but I'm not in a hurry. I'm going to focus on 30.