Running to stay sane

We went camping this weekend at Zion's and it was so much fun! It was a lot of work with three small kiddos, but fun. We ended our camping trip with an overnight stay at St. George. I was going to run with Amber Green and some other girls this morning but I was so tired that I slept in and ran around 8:00 by myself. I love running in St. George. I ran up a crazy hill at miles 2 and 6 that was 9% grade and 1/2 a mile long. My hamstring did NOT like it! It hurt pretty bad by the end of my run. You'd think that three days COMPLETELY off would help heal it but I guess it's still going to give me grief. Stupid hamstring...

8 miles at 7:30 pace.

Ran 4 miles through my neighborhood and then did the spin bilke for 30 minutes. I wanted to get an hour of cardio in but I didn't want to run 8 miles again today. I'm getting lazy.

I had one of those monrings where I felt like I just didn't have enough time! It all started last night when we carved pumpkins and watched scary movies until 1:00 am. Of course that meant I was too tired to wake up early to run so I had to squeeze in a short 5 miler between taking Kaden to school and Lily to preschool. Then I had to rush home for Weston's speech therapy appointment and then I had to go to the store, pick up Lily and stop by my parents.

Long story short...5 miles on a crazy morning. 7:13 AP. Hamstring felt better but hurt later in the day. I went and saw Dr. Fletcher yesterday and he did ART on my butt, hips, hammy and calf.

Planned on running 6-7 miles this morning but after about 1 mile my right knee hurt SO bad that I could barely "hobble" through 2 more. The pain was toward the outside bottom part of the knee which makes me think it's IT Band. Crap...

Stretched really good and foam rolled when I got home.

Did a fun spin workout on my bike this morning while watching Grey's Anatomy. It wasn't half bad. I'm going to take it super easy while I get this knee thing figured out.