Fifty By 50: Difficult Decision about Running and Messy Activities (Aug.14, 2022)

My groin was really bothering me again when I woke up this morning.

I took some Tylenol and Advil and hopefully it will kick in soon and I'll be able to get out for a run.

Jason was making breakfast for the guys out at work today.

He sent me a few pictures of his progress.

He made Cap'n Crunch french toast.

Strawberries and peaches for the pancakes he made.

Raspberry cream cheese for the french toast.

He had some lemon zest in with the raspberries.

He made lots so hopefully there will be leftovers.

Nadine sent me a picture of the finished welcome sign I helped her with - I think it turned out pretty well.

I saw this on Facebook or Instagram or something and thought it would make an awesome coffee mug or shirt.

I headed out for my run around 11.

I ran down in the industrial part again.

It was tough.

The first 2k I was really limping and thought if the pain in my groin didn't ease up that I wouldn't be able to continue.

It did ease up though and felt much better until about 7k in when it kind of started up again.

I made myself finish the 13k that I needed - it was very slow going but I finished.

My exercise details and average heart rate.

My average pace and splits.

I was very slow today.

My check in video for today.

I think I'm going to have to take a rest from running for a few days.

I have only 4 more runs left on the schedule until the marathon and it's been a difficult decision to come to but I decided that I'm going to skip some or maybe all of them.

I think that missing the next couple of runs is less risky then trying to run them and possibly injure myself further.

I have an 8k on Monday and Tuesday, rest on Wednesday then an 8k on Thursday followed by a 5k on Friday the day before the run.

I'm for sure going to skip Monday and Tuesday.

I'm going to try biking and if that doesn't hurt my groin I'll bike 8k on both Monday and Tuesday.

Wednesday is a rest day and that's our travel day as well so that worked out well.

Then we get to Iceland Thursday morning, depending on how I'm feeling, I think I might try to get a 5k run in on either Thursday or Friday.

My thought process is that these next 4 runs are not going to make or break all the training that I've put in if I don't do them but they may cause further injury if I do so I'm going to try to go easy on my groin and hope for the best come marathon day.

It's really disappointing because I only have a couple runs left on the training schedule and they are easier runs so the 'list' person in me (or anal person might be a better word) really wants to get those runs ticked off.

This is the taper part of the training that I was looking forward to but the end game is what is most important here so giving my groin a rest until the marathon I think will be the most sensible thing to do.

Kody and Freya dropped by just as I got home from my run.

Kody popped down and did a workout on the treadmill and Freya and I hung out.

She got into my lipstick.

First she just put some on.

But then she decided to create some artwork.

It started off with a face.

I love the little face she drew.

The "Lipstick Artiste" hard at work.

Proud of her creation.

I love the long curly hair.

Cleaning it up turned into another mess - she was spraying windex everywhere but we got that under control and then decided to another potentially mess activity.

We decided to paint our nails.

She did mine first.

Then she did her own.

One color wasn't enough, we had to pick out three.

She did a fantastic job.

Kody went home after his workout but Greya stayed and hung out with me for a bit.

Inventing a new game for us to play.

Basically she tells me who I'm going to be and what I'm going to say then we play out the scenario over and over until she gets tired of it and comes up with a new one.

She really has a great imagination.