Recovering + Kickball

Toward the end of last week between the stress I had placed on my body from switching up the days that I trained a certain way and being an Aide to a sick kid on Monday at work I caught a cold.  I have some amazing friends for wanting to help me out and take care of me but I've still got all this horrible mucus stuck in me and that's it!  Just mucus and it's aggravating that it won't go away.  I sound like I'm hacking up a lung coughing trying to clear it out.  Luckily for me this week on my Catalyst program it is a down week so volume is lighter as well as the weights.  

Keeping Up With Running
On Monday which is my normal 2.5mi run it decided to bring in a quick cold front and some rain.  And with still trying to clear out my system and get better I didn't want to miss my run so I went inside to hit the treadmill.  Now I didn't want to run 2.5mi on the treadmill although it wouldn't be a bad idea since it would help me with my speed outside but I decided to do a tabata run.  Now for those that don't know what a tabata is, it is typically seen as 8 rounds or sets of :20sec all out work/:10sec rest, giving you a grand total of 4min of work.  The great thing about tabata is that you can use it for cardio geared toward strength (running, rowing, air dyne) or a strength workout.  The pros and cons of using a treadmill for a tabata; pros: you can crank up the speed super high, I usually place mine around 8.5-9mph; cons: it doesn't completely wear your legs out like a true fartlek tabata run does not on a treadmill.  I've gotten so used to doing tabatas for a run on the treadmill that I extend it past the eight minutes and go for 15min.  But that 15 minutes on Monday felt like it took a little longer. 
Tuesday was a super busy day.  It was All American Week on post this week which had a lot of special events like the Army 10 Miler and a huge combatives tournament.  So Tuesday I did my strength work, headed to one job and then had to go in early to the other job early because they were so slammed.  And because we were so busy I wasn't really able to eat anything but what was suppose to be my afternoon snack turned into shoving that down my throat for dinner.  And Tuesday at work got to the point where I started to get irritated and have a headache because I hadn't eaten anything since 1045 that morning.  Here comes the hangry.
Wednesday morning I was lucky enough to finish my Catalyst athletic work early enough to go out for my 2.5mi run that I typically do on a Monday afternoon.  It honestly felt good to get everything done in the morning, and it was a good thing I did because I didn't realize how long my errands that I did that afternoon were going to take me.  
I got finished early with my strength work as well on Thursday and had time to do a little extra work so I decided to do 200 lunges (100/leg).  I'm not going to lie, it might sound hilarious to some, but adding running back into my training scares me a little bit.  I know it can change the appearance of how my body looks, especially my legs and believe it or not I like that my legs have some meat to them.  That they are "thick" for me and I don't want to lose that because of running and my butt.  I don't want to lose my butt either cause I like that too.  And let me tell you my booty is sore today.  Friday morning was going to be my last swim day and sure enough when I walked in the pool was closed and going to be closed all day.  It is time for the outdoor pool to open and they were finishing moving equipment out to the outdoor pool.  So that means the end of my swimming season since it's free to swim during the fall and winter months indoors and will cost me money during the spring summer months.  I can handle a couple months without swimming.  And I was planning on going out after work and doing hill sprints.  Well because the pool was closed I was able to complete  in the morning out of the heat later in the day.  my hill sprintsI used a 1:3 ratio of work to recovery.  And every week that I run, yes it is for me but it is still for Fidget as well.  I still want to make him proud of me even though he's not around anymore.  I'm glad this week is a light week with training.  I was able to come home and take a nap after work on Friday and just to give you an idea of how tired I mentally and physically become from everything I took a 2.5 hour nap.  I normally only sleep for an hour.  And the recovery week has been good for me trying to get all this crap out of my system.  I did have to cut back on some of the CrossFit conditioning though.  My favorite this week was the

7 Rd
20cal row
7 hang clean + thruster 115/80#

I only did 5 rounds and it was a good thing too because I was about to hack up a lung.  

Kickball


Shelby and me


 

So we all remember playing kickball in elementary school and some of us in middle school.  I remember playing it and loving it.  This past Thursday was the last day for a club at work called Bulldog (our work mascot) Buddies.  This club intermingles children with
disabilities and children without.  The plan for the last club meeting was kickball with the kids and hot dogs.  Who doesn't love a game of kickball and some classic American past time (yes I know that's baseball) food.  We headed outside around 330 with all the kids and all the food.  Those kids mean the world to me, like they are my own and I don't have any.  We divided up into teams and I played about an inning and a half before taking some of the students off the field because they needed to eat before catching the bus back to their 

Leilani and me




 

homes.  I had a friend come join us to play and when I took off out of the field to help feed the kids he stayed and played the rest of the same with them.  I hun out with the kids while they ate and we took pictures.  I would love a big group picture with all of them which I should have gotten then but not all of them stayed to play kickball after school.  I took some of them over to the bus so they could head home and then headed back over to hangout with everyone for awhile.  It is so much fun to hang out with them.  I honestly had thought about spending some of my birthday with them.

Oren and me

Confessions of....
So besides all of this I'm not going to lie, I do miss Fidget a lot.  I haven't gotten to talk to him but twice (only a couple hours part) since he's made it back to Washington and one of those conversations he had definitely been drinking.  He says he misses me and yes I miss him.  There are still things that I miss about him being here like us going out on runs together and some things I wish we could do together.  One of those conversations involved him telling me that his deployment was getting pushed forward but he wasn't sure when but he wants to see me before he gets deployed. But if that happens it's going to be tough because finances are extremely tight for me right now.  Yes, I really do want to see him before he leaves but him saying this while he had plenty of drinks in his system makes me really question if he meant what he said.  And the only reason I feel this way is because I've been told by 2 guys before that they loved me and they were drunk at the time when they said it.  I would brush it off and tell them about it only for them to apologize for not remember saying it.  Only for me to realize that my feelings were starting to progress in that direction.  So do I want to believe what he has said about coming to see him in WA or us meeting in New Orleans, absolutely! But am I sketchy about him meaning it, yes.  So hears to hoping he was being truthful even with the alcohol in his system. So with that being said I've got a lot of confusion going through my head on not sure what to do.  Most people would say forget about the whole thing but part of me just likes to hold on the that inkling of hope.

~God Bless

 

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