Sauter du coq à l'âne

Sauter du coq à l'âne?
For sure Anne knows what this means.  Maybe XLMIC and maybe Chris K.

What does it mean? Well literally: "to jump from the rooster to the donkey", makes no sense I know.  It really means to jump from one subject to another.

Enf of French lesson.

Here's some Sauter du coq à l'âne:

- Ran 3 miles today.  I did a tempo run.  Wanted to see if it is easier outside than on the treadmill.  Turns out it was.  Only problem is when I got home I realized it was too short for this week.  Was supposed to be 40 min tempo.  I ran 3 miles in 28 min.  Today I was supposed to do just 3 miles easy and tomorrow the 40 min tempo.  Tomorrow I am on the treadmill so I will do some intervals to make up for the shorter speedwork from today.  I can do intervals on treadmill but tempo it is better outside.  I am much slower on the treadmill then I am outside that is for sure.

- I got my personalized bib for Neil's  May 1st, 2011, Cool Kids Virtual Marathon!

The real one is in color, I just ran out of ink and I cannot  figure out how to upload the Pdf file to this post.  The blond hair on my head, all natural.  Anyway I love my bib! Thank you Neil!

- I sent my brackets.  Let's just say that me and the President of the USA don't agree.

Here's his pick.  Ohio over Duke.  I don't think so.  Kansas? Maybe.  I got them winning in one bracket and DUKE on the other.  I think it will be Duke/Kansas on the last day.  Oh and Aztecs all the way to Elite 8 Mister President.

I got these from school today.  They made me happy.  California's next top model? Just kidding!!!

Let the Madness begin!

 This morning I had a 7 miles run to do.  I tried a new course, more hills but less boring.  Went OK.  I brought the fuel belt because it is already warm here.  I am not a fan of the belt.   I don't think I could  run a race with it.  Next week I am trying the liquid shot and I will bring it in my hands.   When I got back it was Duke time!  They were playing UNC for the ACC Final.  This was me before the game:

They won!
3 YEAR IN A ROW.  THERE IS NO DUKE IS OVERRATED

3 pm: The brackets were announced:

Number 1 in the West!

These guys are number 2 and they deserve it 100%:

But who is scared of that?

Not this guy:

Elite Eight in Anaheim: That is where they could meet. 

Here's to hoping they will! 

Speedwork and 80 friends!

Yesterday I ran an easy 3 miles. 
Could have been be easier if there was A LOT less pollen in the air.  Next week I have to have a skin test for my allergies, the one in the arm with needle IN the muscle..fun times ahead...so I am off antihistamine for 5 miserable days.  That means no meds for my 7 miles on Sunday.  I wish I lived closer to the beach for this time of year.

Today Speedwork at the gym. 
I had to do 7 x 400m at 5k pace.
I did 5 at 5 sec faster then 5k pace and 2 at 12 sec faster then 5k pace.  90 sec rest (fast walking) in between.  Is that too much rest? It does not say anything about rest time on the program just to walk between each repeat.
5 miles total.
It went great.  I like those workout better then tempo run. 

Still have not decided about Fall half marathon...leaning towards Long Beach and doing the 10k race at the Mission Inn race in Riverside like I did last year.  Thank you to those who left me a comment regarding this!!!

I got 80 followers now! Thank you so much !  I never thought I would have 1 follower so this is fantastic!

I will miss Will's game this Saturday :(.  Bill is in charge of the kids and taking pictures! We'll see how good that goes!!!
I hate missing games, what if he scores a goal and I am not there?!

Big NCAA basketball weekend coming up! If you hear loud screams with a few cuss words in French coming from Southern California it will be ME yelling at my TV!
GO DUKE!

Game 2 and Following the rules

Today is cross training day and I coached and played basketball.
I am not going to the gym to jump on the elliptical for 30 min, no time for that, too much going on and I have a 10 miler tomorrow.

We had Game 2 with my team and we played a team who does not follow the rules and that made me really mad.  The kids are 6-7 yrs old, they are not allowed to play men to men, only zone and only half court.  They are not allowed to take the ball away from an opponent, no steal allowed even if they are clean.

Well guess what the other team the Pacers did the whole game???  It is really hard to have my team play by the rules when they get the ball stolen from their hands the whole game. Grrrrrrr. 

I would have fought the other coach but here is a picture of me next to him.  Now remember I am 5'11".

More pictures

The first game...

Must type fast...my kids are driving Bill crazy...and I don't want WWIII in my house tonight!!!

Went to the gym this morning...today was cross training...did 30 min on elliptical...gym was full some guy came and said : "I CALL 30 minutes on you!" What?? I said " You could just say can I please have a turn now or are you almost done"...anyway...I got off and all that was available was those bikes that are lower...I hate those..so I did only 10 minutes on that.

I had to get ready for my younger son's basketball game...I guess I can say their names...instead of older and younger all the time.  I did give them names when they were born...OK so Jonathan is the almost 5 yrs old one.  He had a game at 10:30..it is just hilarious to go to those games. 

Jonathan is the one with the ball

Then at 12:30 I was coaching my older son, Will. 
We are the Mavericks and it was our first game.  Well I did not need to go to the gym this morning, this was a real workout!  And I lost my voice!  We did OK but they sucked all the energy I had left.  I ran that court for the whole game while 2 out of 5 were almost asleep watching the others play!  These are 6 yrs old boys...the expectations have to be really LOW!!

Will is #4

Tomorrow long run.  This time I will not cut it short no matter what, if I have to walk then so be it.  I got my new fuel belt and I am going to try GU for the first time.  Let's hope my super picky stomach likes it!