The results are in...

from my bone scan. The Dr said it looks like I have a stress fracture. UGH. That means, lots of rest. As nice as that sounds, I am itching to run. I actually tried some jogging twice this week, before I heard from the Dr today. I only jogged a half mile each time, but this mornign, did feel some twinges in the ankle right as I was hitting that half mile mark. So, it looks like mostly bike riding for me for a while. I can try walking with some light jogging, but if I feel pain, I have to stop and rest it for another week (wherein I can do alternative exercises, like swimming an biking as long as they don't cause any pain). Luckily, it does feel like the few weeks of rest I have already given it has started to help, as I do not feel pain while walking anymore! So, I am on the road to healing, but it sounds like it will be a long road before I can run any 5Ks. That having been said, I have decided to walk the Alzheimers 5K next week. Many of Jared's siblings will be walking, so I am just gonna hoof it and hope I don't do any damage in the process!

A little funny for ya:

The other day Max was playing outside, as he often does. He had been playing for a while and I was wondering about him, thinking I should probably go check on him soon. I put it off for a bit, and soon we sent the older 2 kids outside to clean up some toys that they had left in the front yard. When they came in they told us that they had finished cleaning, and to that one of them added, "oh yeah, and Max is asleep on the front porch!" I go outside to look and he was sitting asleep in his old car seat that I had left on the porch after switching it out for his new "Big Boy" booster seat a bit ago! Here he is all cute, and sleeping out on the porch!

A bump in the road.

Well, my running has had to be stalled, due to a bump in the road, or rather an injury. Before the race last Saturday I was dealing with some ankle pain. I bought some tape and just taped them both to be able to run the race. Well, the tape worked great for getting me through the race, but afterwards my ankle pain was much worse. I rested Sunday (as I do anyway) and again didn't run on Monday. Tuesday morning I got all ready, headed out the door and hit the trail. After about 5 steps, I had to stop running, the pain in my ankles (even though they were taped) was too much. I walked about a mile that morning and came home.

I scheduled an appointment that morning and decided I really needed to make sure I wasn't dealing with something major before I continued. The Dr was thorough, taking many x-rays. Luckily the X-rays came back clean, but due to the fact that the bone where I am experiencing most of my pain is a major load bearing bone, there is still the possibility that I am developing a stress fracture in that area. I cannot run on them until I have no pain while walking (which I still do, so no running yet). So my morning runs have had to be converted to morning bike rides until I can get back to running.

I can't tell you how disappointed I am! I felt so good having completed that race, and I was really hoping to continue. I am still hopeful that I will be able to run in the Alzheimer's run later this month, but my chances of bettering my time have gone down the tubes! Oh well, that's what I get waiting until I am overweight to start running again! More stress on those bones and joints!

Training Log

OK, so I have been very bad about my training log lately!

We took a week off because my training partner was sick and I had stuff going on, but got back on track on Monday of this week. SO here is this week so far:

Monday: Bike 10 miles
Tuesday: Walk 3.5 miles run .5 mile
Wednesday: no work out

Today was supposed to be a swim this morning, but I had a really bad night last night and just could not get up at 5AM to go swimming..heck getting up at 7:15 with the kids was hard enough! So I am going to try to get a run or bike in after I get back from Lucas's well baby appointment today. Look for training and Lucas updates later today!

Training Log

Ok, here is my training log so far this week:

Monday: 1.5 mile walk (we were short on time)
Tuesday: 800 meter swim

Not sure what we will be doing tomorrow, it depends on the weather.

Training Log

Today's exercise:

Bike 5 miles. I should have gone farther, but there was a really strong wind and it killed my legs when I had wind in my face going uphill....

I am hoping for some scrappy time tonight. I have a couple projects that I need to finish. We will see how that goes. I don't always get to do as much as I like.

Tomorrow is soccer games and a baby shower for my cousin. It is always fun to see family, so I will really enjoy going to the baby shower; even though it is a bit of a drive to get to where it is being held.

Training Log

ok, here's today's training log:

Walk- probably 2.5 or 3 miles (we went a different way so I am not exactly sure how far we went, probably closer to the 2.5 though) with 2 short jogging sections.

I am a slacker...sorry

So, I haven't posted in a while. I just haven't taken any pictures that work well for a blog post, but I guess this blog is not all about photos, so here is a run down of what has been going on around the Jensen home:

Everyone seems to have some variation on the common cold. TOO many runny noses and coughs in this house; they are driving me nutso. I am ready for spring and good health!

Liam just finished a 5 week season of Itty Bitty Hoops. He had a great time and learned more about the game. He is anxious to be able to play Jr Jazz next year.

Spring soccer has begun, so we are back to crazy Saturdays. The first 2 weeks were freezing, so when last weekend was warm and sunny, I didn't think to slather the sunblock, and my poor pale boys ended up with sunburns. I felt terrible, but they survived, and hopefully won't be telling their therapists that it is all my fault that they have a fear of the sun (everything is our fault, right?)

I have started training for a Triathlon with a friend from church (yes, you read that correctly, you don't need to go get your eyes checked, I did say Triathlon). Of course, I will mostly likely end up walking the run and coming in last, but I am determined to try! I have been training for about a month now (with a break in the middle due to a really bad cold) and I can feel a difference, and I have even lost a bit of weight! YEAH. SO to keep myself motivated I have decided that you all will keep me honest..hehe..I am going to post what I accomplished daily on my blog! So here goes (this is posting for yesterday as it is only 8:30AM and it wasn't a swim workout day).

Weds: jog 1.25 miles, walk 3/4 of a mile (this is an improvement on the 3 minutes I lasted last time I tried to run!)

Other news: My 30th birthday is next month. I am a little freaked about the fact that I will be turning 30..I know that is really isn't old, but leaving my 20s in the dust is a bit hard to accept... So, as a gift my parents are flying Lucas and I down to LA to join then for a couple days in Oceanside to relax on the beach and spend a day at Disneyland with them and my sister..now to figure out how to tell my kids that I am going to Disneyland and they don't get to go (to be fair, we are planning a trip to go with the family in December).