Ran 115 Minutes

We ran on Patrick AFB in Florida (near Melbourne) for a almost an hour and a half a couple days ago.  The running/cycling path we were on was cement (not good for feet, especially since I had my trail shoes on and had expected we would run on dirt) and along the water (good for view).  We didn't even realize how far we ran.

However, now my right foot feels like something is not right in there.  I don't know how to describe it except to say it feels a little broke, which, I know, doesn't make sense or I wouldn't be walking on it at all.  What I do know is that this has happened before, this same kind of pain in my foot, and Naproxen takes care of it, so it is something caused by inflammation, and set off by running on the hard surface rather than a dirt or limestone trail.

Suckaroo.

I am doing the 20 push ups a day now though.  I just did 20 and later today I will do another set of 20.

Did you hear that the women trying out for Ranger school have to do 49 push ups? I heard that on the radio the other day.  Hmmmm....Good goal for me to shoot for.

Up to 20 Pushups In One Set

Yes.  Going to increase that to 30 as an interim goal.  Wouldn't it be cool to get it up to 100?  And, did I tell you I am in my 50's?  Wish I'd known how to get into shape with push ups when I was active duty Army. I always suffered through them, barely passing. Except when in Airborne School - then I got pretty damn good at them.

Getting ready to go on 6 months, no sugar.

No More Pancakes

I've been sugar free in my diet for almost 6 months now, all except for the occasional pancake.  That was my only treat.  And I rarely ate them anyway, but since I cut out all other sugars which includes most any sweets, any processed foods made with sugars (almost all are), anything and everything except honey in tea now and then, and fresh fruits.

Well now I'm going to cut out pancakes.  They used to make me sick when I was a little girl.  Now they are starting to do that again.  It is almost immediate after eating them; my gut starts rolling.

I guess that is my body telling me to cut it out; pancakes are bad-for-me-food.

So, got it.  Getting on it.

Running & Hiking

We've gotten in a couple of runs lately and some short hikes.  Doing pushups every other day or so.

Another Run, More Pushups

This morning we went for the first run since before Christmas.  We left Maryland, and our children and grandchildren, our friends, in a hurry shortly after Christmas to go to Iowa where my sister was dying of stage 4 cancer.  I'd been taking care of her for 10 months, during the days, with the exception of a couple of breaks to return to Maryland.  But this time she was admitted to the hospice room in the local hospital and was quickly losing multiple abilities.

So we got back and took the night shift in the hospital.  It was ugly.  Stressful.  Awful.  We did 15-16 hour shifts.  We'd come around 5pm and leave 8am or 9 or later the next morning.  We did that, with a couple of breaks (other sisters spelling us) for almost a month. Even when we weren't at the hospital, I couldn't sleep most of the time.  We went for some hikes in the snow, but no running.  No pushups.

My sister died on Monday, January 19th.  Her funeral was that following Saturday.  Two days later, we left Iowa in our RV.

So now we are recovering from a very stressful 10 months or so, which culminated, of course, in the most stressful time of all, right before she died, as things got so, so ugly.  With the multi-trillion dollar medical establishment in this country, you'd think we could do dying of cancer a little better, but no.

Anyway, so today, we ran for the first time.  Maybe 40 or 50 minutes.  I'm not sure. I forgot to check my watch when we stopped.

And I've already done three sets of 10 pushups.

So rocking out here.

I'm coming back.

From Struggling to Success; Just Do It

Nothing like seeing my blog to get me started again.  I had gotten busy, and we've been traveling, and didn't get those pushups going like I said I would. What to do?

I just dropped and did 5 pushups.

I just dropped and did another 5 pushups.

And another 5.

And 10 pushups.

And 10 more.

OK. So I got that struggle thing changed to progress.

Yes.