Maureen - I agree with Laura that rest days are important. If you don't, then you increase the risk of injury which will set you back far more than a rest day! Glad you're planning one soon!

Marla - Glad things are coming together for you! I'll be praying for your sanity during this time!

Laura - glad you're making real progress! It must be so hard to reign yourself in when you're finally starting to feel better and want to get going on your normal activites! I feel for you!

Well, woke up with a normal temp yesterday morning...only to have it it 100 by mid afternoon. . I took it easy, but whatever. I still plan on taking the kids to the zoo...mainly because they've been trapped at the house so much while I try to get my temps under control. They need to get out! I plan on heading straight to the petting zoo and just letting them pet the animals and then play at the park outside while I just sit and watch.

Hope everyone has a great day!

Hi again, from the laptop. Y'all might get a book, because I'm a great typist on a real keyboard (vs. iPad). haha!

Maureen, thanks for all the threadstarters. It's good to plan rest days. I usually just wait and see. I know when I'm really "dreadin'" that it's time for a rest day, but I should probably plan rest days before I get that far. Hope your tempo run went well, and dinner.

Marla, good luck with all the work you have left to do and with the house search. You sound like you have a nice, cozy night planned.

val, hope you can get that temp under control. I've never heard of anything like what you've been having. The petting zoo sounds great. My lil girl told me the other day that she wanted to see "chickens in real life" and "cows in real life" and "sheep in real life". haha. Cute, but guilty Mom syndrome too, for raising kids in the city. I'll have to get them to a farm while we're in America.

Laura, you're handling yourself so well, by timing and pacing yourself. My entire life my Dad has been one of those people who goes too hard (I've never seen anyone who does as much yardwork as him without getting paid for it!), gets hurt, starts to feel a tad bit better, and then...you guessed it: goes too hard again and reinjures. Keep it up! Little by little is the way forward.


Well, I re-installed the app (thanks Laura!) and I think that fixed 1/2 my technical difficulties. But anyway, on the laptop for now. Soooo I've been having some calf issues running. The hammy problem seems to have been just because of hamstring day at the gym (only lasted 2 days). I've tried focusing on form. I've tried focusing on stretching. Stride length. You name it! Finally, I think I've figured it out (but who knows!). I think when I changed up my gym routine, to make it quicker/simpler, I dropped some hip exercises that has caused some imbalances. I'm going to try to add them back in and see what happens. At least the calf/achilles problem is not like my old, old problems back when I hurt kinda all the time. Right now it only bothers me running flat or downhill (mostly flat), but not uphill, not walking or any other time. So my runs might be shorter and my gym sessions more frequent for a little while, to try to get back in line.

Sorry for the book^ (I just love the feel of a real keyboard again! lol)