Worked till 11:30 pm again and but managed to get my one mile before midnight!

Had to get the mile on the eliptical though because I forgot my running shoes.  :(

The ball of my feet are very sore!

Anyway, enough complaining. I'm fading fast.  Good night all. 

Ha ha. Last night after work ended at 11:30 I managed to drive to the gym and get my mile in on the treadmill before 12 midnight :)  (Still trying to at least do a mile a day for March Madness )

Keep on, keeping on !

I can be in pain and UNfit, or I can be in pain and FIT...

that is the way I see it.

Garrett and Kevin

bros

Yesterday I managed to run 5 K, 30 minutes of strength training and started a long neglected flexibility routine ( I am so far away from touching my toes!).

When I was running, it was real difficult to keep going because of the nagging shoulder and foot pain...so I had to play games in my head like ....

"well if you can just do a mile" then you can stop".....

... I got to a mile and I thought..."well you really should have a least 20 minutes to really get a good training affect"...

so then I reached 20 minutes and thought "well you might as well go all the way to 30 minutes because you are almost there"...

then I reached 30 minutes and see that I am almost to a 5 K and think "well keep going then you can at least say you did a 5 K".

Ha ha...that is what goes on in my head almost every time I do a 5 K.

Have a fantastic day all :)  Keep on keeping on!

My Dad , my hero

 

                                                        My Hero My Dad
                                                        Steve McDonough



My Dad , my hero.

He used to tell me,  "Marie, it's only hard for the first 100 years".  :)  He had a great sense of humor.

He loved to mess with words...Light bulbs were "Light Blubs"

 He suffered from rheumatoid arthritis since the age of 50.  His fingers, feet and spine were severely disfigured.  BUT he showed me that RA would not stop him and he lived a full life to the age of 88 years old. He drove a car to the age of 87. He kept very busy with playing music, teaching music, church activities, family activities, inventing and helping people all the time.

 He was a brilliant business man, giver and inventor.  He invented parts and diagnostic tools for the transmission service business and sold them all over the United States (and this before the internet!). He ran a transmission shop in the San Fernando Valley called Steve's Transmission for 26 years. He cared so much for his customers and employees and when I was a teen I had complete strangers come and tell me how he helped them in some way or another.  He was a giver of time and money to people in need.

He played the trombone and brought music and life everywhere he went. He brought all his piano and music students to the convalescent homes and brought the gift of music to cheer up the lives of the elderly. 

He also sooooo loved his wife Joan!  He showed me what a good marriage is all about. They were always together. 

I love you Dad!! You are the "light blub" of my life :) :) :)

So if you all out there have rheumatoid getting you down, know that you can keep going despite the pain.  My Dad showed me you can!   I know and hope you all can too!

 big day yesterday helping my boys with their concert in Long Beach but I managed to run my mile with intervals up to 7 mph!!! Wahoo :) :)  Revolt With Reason rocked the beach!!

 This afternoon going running a 5 k with the hubby outside.   :)

The desert pic taken By Cassidy Stull

 

Kind of mad that I had the stomach flu it ruined my "March Madness Run Every day even if it's a mile thing" but I got over myself and started up again.



Workout Time: 32 minutes
Speed: 5.0 mph with 2 minute cool down
Miles:  2.5 ish
Pain scale prior to exercise: 7 (very hard to get on treadmill today)
Pain during             "          : 6-8 (mostly shoulders and back)
Pain 30 min after    "          : 3 :)


Random Pic...

My son Garrett below is auditioning for a ABC pilot show called Mixology today... Good luck Garrett!!!

 

 

Happy day :)

"keep on, Keeping on"

My son Tyler and me after running 5 K at the YMCA Lancaster, CA 2012

 

Great article I found in Runner's World :) !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! click on link below..



http://www.runnersworld.com/health/does-running-cause-arthritis

conclusion:  runners in a longitudinal study were found to have 25% LESS arthritis according to this article. 


:) :) :)

Below Buttons the dog made me feel better when I was sick yesterday...