SATURDAY>>>WOOOOhoo!

I cannot BELIEVE that I DID it....yes..16...I think i did it in spite of myself...!.....cause I left this morning...not really wanting to run....and thinking..i may not be ABLE to run it....my last 2 weeks have been pretty poor.....I actually feel better than I have been....my knees are ok...altho'they are probably waiting until later today to let me know...and I don't have a headache...yet....cross your fingers...!.......I tried to make sure that i ate...and hydrated.....yesterday...and wanted to go to sleep early..but was so excited...had a hard time doing that......i don't know about you...but before the long runs..i get a little worked up....nervous.....takes the first 2 or 3 miles..and then i settle in........thank you shawn for keeping me in some sort of pace.........and dragging me along.....
and most of all...thank you donna for letting me have the ear phones for my mp3....it gets me through the last few miles......and mine just stopped working.....

well..now...i am off to the beach..with 5 kids....here's hoping everyone stays safe.....can't wait for an early morning run there.....it will be nice......

have a good week...you won't hear from me until after your run Saturday....Patti G.

3slllloooowwww

No mp3 today...just me and a big orange moon...not quite full...over a misty lake.....beauuuuutiful............!the run was NOT exceptional...mind in the ditch...but the exercise felt good...and I am just hoping and praying that i can run the long distance Saturday...sometimes i know I need a rest in between...so here's hoping....good day to all!patti g.

5:20...and 4 miles...

Not far enough today..may go again tonight....my mind in the ditch...but the day is gorgeous......a full beautiful orange moon just over the lake trees..........

My legs heavy and slow today.......

update on my pt. that almost bled to death Monday......ended up in icu....and then early yesterday morning...had a hysterectomy.....clotting factors depleted to the max....so she had to be replenished and then sent to the o.r......glad to know that she is on the mend

patti g.

HEY again

I am just going to say they DID IT AGAIN!!!...for the last 4 days...i have gone to work with a granola bar and a cup of juice...and not gotten to eat lunch until after 3....i am feeling pooped

Today was a day from he......I had a patient with twins arrive on the unit in labor...previous c-section...and sooo..off i go to surgery...while recovering that patient....the patient next to her...decided to deplete herself of much needed blood...and sooo sent the poor nursing student to the floor with my patient....and then spent 6 hrs...giving blood...and taking orders from a doc that i wanted to DO a little more.....well..you know labor and delivery does not USUALLY have to deal with this kind of stuff...but when we do....we do it up ........and soooooooo...i am tired.........

and now...i will say thank you for letting me vent..and complain...!..no i did not run...but I think if you had seen what we did...you could say we ran.............i know for sure that i have a beaten path to the lab......and p.s....the patient is stable in icu as we speak.....so..it was all worth it......

hope your day is good....patti g.

NO JOG TODAY!

they tried to hurt me yesterday.....tons of work......emergencies!yuck....and now I am pooped...but still have to go again today....with a schedule from hell....surgeries...and probably deliveries all over the place...and then a 2 hr. trip....did i say that i am pooped.....the alarm went off..and i just turned it off....!so no run ...but i bet i get the walking time in....
hope yours is a good monday...!!!!...patti g.

3 this am and a 12 hr. shift

The 12 hrs..that is going to be my xtrain....tired this morning...did the 3 miles around the lake....me and the mp3...pat, pat, pat........finally turned it off....found my own rhythm with the sunrise..and the birds.....and a few dogs barking in the background.......seemed like i walked more than ran...but my watch said different...so..i am not sure............

bet most of you are resting today.....after that long long run..hope all went well.....
we had an uneventful day at the hospital...except for me.....ranting at one of the docs about missing my lunch for the 2nd day in a row.....when it is not necessary...if i am lucky ....it may get my lunch bought today.....i know...terrible...!.....taking care of a 13 yr old was an experience ....PARENTS talk to your children PLEASE!!!!....not JUST about sex..but about themselves...!!!!...they need HOPE!
thank you for letting me rant a little to you.....!

sounds like Matt racked up......ok..matt...i have been promising those jelly beans....you will get them soon...i promise..!!!glad it all went well....off to work!
patti g.

3.5

JUst the loop around the lake and down my new road this morning...ya'll are probably about mile 4 or 5 right now...hope it is as good as mine was.....the weather is beautiful..and not as humid as earlier in the week........

it felt good to just get into my rhythm this morning...i was a little slow...but not too bad....my knees felt good...they have been a little sore after these long runs but ok today....that good old sun peaking out over those dark trees at the end of my road.....just one pink line over the trees....making me know that yep..it is going to be some kind'a hot.....!!!

going to be working all weekend....me and the babies....and my working bud....melonie......

hope ya'll had a good one....and i will see you next week...!!!patti g.

FRIDAY

worked today.....mainly surgery....one baby...one sterilization.....found out one of my coworkers knows michelle...she happened to mention to me that she has to go to meridian for navy stuff......she is a student working with us for the summer...follows me and another nurse around learning this profession......i am rambling....waiting for my 15 yr. old to get out of the shower....he is hungry and tired....he has been on top of a house all week roofing it.......the methodist church that we do not attend but half the neighborhood does....has been having a community project....they have taken about 45 kids and 3 or 4 families and helped them fix their houses up......it has been an eye opener for those that have had everything at their disposal......and a lesson that all good children and adults need to see....their is always someone less fortunate...he has a real appreciation for his home....and the 'stuff' that he has.....the church tries to make it neat for the kids tho'...they have activities at night...and food all week long that is good....and of course the bonding of a group that makes the week fly on by.....he is a thinner ...tired...tanned blond blue eyed boy...that is wanting me to take him to the mexican rest. down the road...don't know how he has the energy but i will take him....
the little one has gone to his g'ma's...and i am missing him talking adn talking to me about a million and one things.....grandma lets him cook and pretty much rule the house so...he will enjoy the fine dining...and the attention.....and she will enjoy his active company.....

i am going to miss the run tomorrow...even tho' i did mine yesterday....even if i end up running by myself...i enjoy seeing all of you..hope it is nice and cool tomorrow...I will be running at about 5 up and down these good old hills here in v'burg........go marathoners...!!!!!Patti g.

12 miles today...

well....yes...it IS hot as hell out there....!!!...i think sometimes i see that old devil out there too....cause it sounds like he is trying to discourage my friends.....and WHO does he think he is....!!!!??????..........

Alice and I went at 5:30 this morning...well...5:45 cause you know who was late... had to drop my 12 yr old off at a friend's house...(TRUE FRIEND)...anyway....the heat was tolerable until about 8 am...and then it is a struggle...i have been getting up at 5 or 515 and leaving my house at 5:30 to run..i can tell it is going to have to be early...especially if I need to run a long one....my neighbor has decided to be my 'trainer'..and she says it is way too hot for anyone to run.....and i told her that 26 miles is not going to JUST HAPPEN!!!...she is a big wimp.....!!!altho...she is 85lbs...and I watched her have both of her children without one bit of pain medicine.....still....she doesn't know what she is talking about.....she doesn't know that running has kept me out of the bed...and in the road.....and helped me to avoid some REAL stinking thinking......she doesn't know that this is not an option this is what i need to do to stay healthy.....mentally and physically....and she doesn't know what it is to be a MARATHONER!!!!.....soooooo...i just do what mom told me to do a long time ago...just smile..and cross your legs and do exactly what you want to do......good lady, my mom....anyway....

back to this morning....Alice and I left Mark's office..discussing how we were dreading this run because of the heat......but managed to get off to a pretty good pace.....and then.....about mile 7 Alice started having a pain in her knee....and rather than keep going.....decided to wait for me to run around the lake a few times......and go on and walk back............i can tell you...it is MUCH better to have someone talking and running with..just to keep up the brain thing...and help you to figure out where to go......sooo we ended up doing 12 for me..and 10 for her......which...if you look at the positive, we almost did a marathon between us.........we both thought it wiser to not OVER do....so here's to you Alice..hope it is better by now....

..and so you know..if you start at 5:30....most everyone will be done by 8:30 or 9:0 so, it is not soo bad......after that it is hot....


I have this dang headache....AGAIN...and i drank and drank yesterday and today...i DO NOT get it.....why...?...and don't tell me to pour water over my head ...there has to be more to it than that........I have eaten...some...but not as hungry as i thought..but made sure to have some gatorade...and a bagel from beagle bagel...and a really good cookie....just don't understand...anyone got anymore ideas.......right now..i am considering chinese...i am dying for some fried rice..and maybe one of those sushi rolls.....hmmmuh...sounds good..bye..and ya'll...don't give up.....we have gotten too far into this...!..
Patti G.

resting

Nothing today..have my long run tomorrow with Alice....hope it is cloudy windy and cool...but bet it won't be......this humidity is a killer..i am thinking of getting one of those...thingys you put around your neck.....that keeps you cool..think it will work..?....we give our patients 'ice gloves'...which is nothing more than ice in a rubber glove.........but at least it is cold.....hope your day is good...patti g.

HUMID!!!!

Man..you can cut the air with a knife....3 miles...slooooowwww this morning.....my brain was in the ditch...so did more walking than jogging.....the sun was already hot....and the birds aren't singing yet...and it is 5:55...!!!
off to work...hope the day is good..!

Monday...6.5 miles...

greetings and salutations...whatever.....the beginning of a new week.....!!...ran around the lake...and then down the flatter part of the neighborhood....so easy ..cannot believe i have not been doing this before......

had a sweet lab follow me the last couple of miles.....made me wish for a dog to run with...but not...since..i am not particularly excited about animals...get too attached...and don't feel like i have the time to devote to them..right now....but...he was good company......

got up at 5am....didn't run til 5:20....but made good time on the run..and finished in exactly an hour.....hope to speed up in the next few weeks...plan on going to get that bike i have been talking about.......crosstraining....have to do...found that out yesterday....sluggish all day long....

just weeded the bed around the trees .....planted 70 caladiums in april or may..can't remember which month...they are just now coming up....may have something to do with the rain.....anyway..they are just the right amount of color in my back yard.....i love the summertime......!!!.....just NOT the humidity....!
rambling on.....
have a good one!patti g.

Saturday...`

Hey!!!....can you believe we think 6 miles is nothing....!..i can't.......got up late after THE best meal last night....made me sluggish......seems it would help if i could go to sleep a little earlier......had to race to get here in the car...and then on foot.....

good to run with Shawn and Alice today.....started me out in a good pace....4:1...and then moved on to sort of 5:1...ha.....i think that may be stretching it a little..but it was a 'patti pace' anyway................I am somewhere in between i think......

went to sports academy after a good cup of coffee and a walk through target......found some new shorts....and hoped nobody at either store saw the flies buzzing over my head.......so ready to get home....for my shower.........!!!!

it is so good to see all of you on saturday.....motivates me after running all week long by myself......

my boys spent all night long at the church at a halo party.....(xbox)...and now they are sleeping soundly on the couch....not too much sleep for them...but they want to spend another night with friends this evening........it is definitely summer time...!!!!hope all of you have a good rest of the weekend...!!patti g.

5:15....alarm!!!!

well..up and at em.....hit the road..felt gooooood this morning...and i knew i wouldn't go back to sleep...things to do today....need some focus..and this seems to do that better than anything......sun already up..and the birds chirping along the way...my buddy was not by the lake.....long legged bird..fishing in the water...probably....got an early start....since the sun beat me up this morning..........just 3 this morning..want to be able to run in the morning.....shouldn't be a problem..but who knows?.....right...?............blogging along...patti

thursday...6-9-05

Hit the road this morning..5:30.....no one out but me and the birds.....the lake was quiet...and the pink clouds over the trees were hanging over my head .......but i managed to run and walk..brain in the ditch..but the road was good....and i found myself finished with the lake run..and decided to make another 3 down a new path....flatter and a whole LOT easier..........all in all..better run than Monday's......i needed the rest....the last few days....i guess..cause the bod felt better...and hopefully on Saturday the run will be easy.....since it is only 6 miles....can't BELIEVE i am saying that....!

trying to make a better eating choices...and may go buy a bike sometime today...for xtraining..then i can just hit the road on the bike or on foot.......

work..yesterday.....crazy crazy patient......by that i mean funny........she had been asking about me...and wanted to know where in the hell i had been...didn't i know that she was having a BABY!!...she puttered around all day..and eventually had him at 5:53......he screamed and screamed.....hands and feet huge........bundled up, he looked like he was ready to punch his way out of those blankets.............his mom all wild eyed.....and beautiful....checking out the new person in her life...........sometimes in the hustle and bustle.....it is nice to stand back and just watch........it is good................

hope your day is good......see you on Friday....patti

tuesday

no run for me...except at work.....got my stuff to go......ran up the hill...and said no way......that was at 9pm....too muggy....and tooooo dark tonight.....and besides forgot that my friend had said he and his wife would come by and hang a picture for me....duuuhhhh...so there goes that..........and now it is late...and i am sooo tired...but i have wished alll day that i had done it...........even the other nurses at work wanted to know if i had run today.............and Rob said...i hope you run tomorrow mom...you need it...what does that mean...huh?...............later...patti

MONDAY MONDAY!!!

Ran this morning....nooooottttt tttttooooo gooooooooooooooooood!...slooooowwwww...i knew i would be but please!.....anyway...me and the music...pat, pat, pat.....tromping around the lake...threatening to rain any minute....the lake soo tired like me.......and the gray clouds swirling around ..where? nobody knows.......a few dead turtles and a couple of deceased frogs on the way........and the yard sooo green in the gray....funny how that works together.........a little blue peaking out of those swirls ...so come on mr sunshine...we need you today.....

going to work this morning...docs will be raring to go..one of them has to keep up with his partner so he will send every woman to labor and delivery if she LOOKS pregnant.....and then we will evaluate and keep or not.....

took it easy yesterday.....but don't think i drank enough...cause this morning i am feeling terrible after that run......i bet by saturday tho' i will have...cause this feels yucky!!!!

hope the day is good for all...blogging on......patti

WOOHOO!!!

YEs...i am glad that we did it...and now...I AM glad it is OVER>...know that I have some WORK TO DO!!!like xtraining more...and running longer during the week.....and MOST of all eating better....

I have to confess there were no bathrooms but I took care of that along the way..something I NEVER EVER Thought would happen...but then..i have never run a half marathon....gu'd at mile 6...and 8 but something was missing...I never really recovered the pace after that.........of course it could have something to do from the hills from hell...........know Mark told us...but you have to see it to believe it....yuck!.......I started out with Linda and Shawn..who ALWAYS complain about the pace that i run...and yep..they are right....ended up with Amanda who began to take on the philosophy of run til you get tired...and then just walk..so we threw the 5:1 out the door the last 4 miles....!..it was sure good to run with someone at the tail end....her dad doubled back to run with us...and encourage us....cause there was a mean looking walker behind us...steady and sure...we just knew he was going to catch up.....

I am going to hate when Melissa quits riding her bike..even tho' I know that she is not....her words of encouragement are soooo nice..........especially if I am running by myself........think we can have an official 'encourager'?.............

ok..problem....I have had a bad headache for the last 3 long runs ...i had thought that maybe i was not drinking enough....so i really made sure the last 2 runs that i kept the fluids going....came home today and got in the bed....did not get the rest last night that i knew i needed....but i was so dang excited.................but NOW my head is killing me...knew on the drive home that it was going to be bad.....think about it and if you have suggestions...let me know......

yes..we ARE marathoners......still cannot say enough thanks to mark..for encouragin me to run..it has been one of the best things i have ever done....!!

and so you know...my supply of jelly beans are on there way from walmart......and i fully intend to eat a handful..and keep them as my own reward for the long runs.....!!over and out folks...going to visit with my sister in law..who plans to cook something delish for me tonight.....

GOATMILK .....check

JUST checked out the run route for tomorrow...and Linda Thigpen was there with her kids...she says she is "camping out" but hey...it is the best rig I have yet to see....I wanted to make sure i didn't get lost on the way....cause you might say I am geographically challenged....but no problem..everything is marked and the map is good for all of you who might want to know....the countryside is beautiful....Linda and I saw wild turkeys while checking the area out....and there is good shade along the way....so now!!!! just to DO IT!!.............nervous...can't help it...........when Chicago gets here in October..I am going to be a basket case...at least we CAN blog...makes me feel better just expressing it...............
see ya'll there...!! patti

tired...

Felt a little tooooo energetic last night after my run........so this morning...i was really tired...but got up anyway....at 5:30....still didn't beat the sun......it was up and the birds were chirping right outside my window....one more reason to just get on up and at em....................just went 3.5...may go again tonight.....really enjoyed last night......................too many walkers out this morning...know i will go at 5 next week............the lake was all foggy and spooky looking even tho' the sun was up......and a lot of deceased froggies out this morning..................I didn't pace myself sooo well...wished for some of my buddies ......but listened to my music..and made it on around......

.....tell my friends i am going to do this....and they still can't believe I have continued.....most of them thought it was a 'phase' i was going through....think MAYBE they are convinced now.....especially if they see me running the lake..............don't tell...but sometimes...I just get DETERMINED about some things...and this is one of them..even when i feel tired..or out of sorts...............the folks at work....keep telling me they are going to wear 'pink' shirts on the day of the marathon.......(pink..is my favorite color)...that says Run, Patti Run!!!...you know....(run forest run)...............they are THE most encouraging..helps that my niece works with me...24 yr old....with plenty of energy......and a good sense of humor........and love for an aunt that has always treated her like a daughter....bossed her around.......and loved her through her stuff.....and now...she has made us proud by being responsible...and self sufficient.....and most of all 'happy with herself'.......it is inspiring to me...........

well...the 15 yr old has to get his duds on to go weed eat....don't envy him...this week has proven to be a 'learning' experience...he has found out what really working for your money is all about..............the work has been outside.....and that is good..not in front of the computer or the tv.............and he has really enjoyed it.....in a way.....muscles for days on this boy man........makes me sick to see my baby growing up............hope your day is good...........patti g.

YES>>>I hit the hills....

Hit those hills around the lake....wasn't sure I would even run today...but I am sooooo glad i did..............good thinking time....purple and pink over the lake ...right before a big thunderstorm...made it around 3 miles..hoofing it....25 min. ....partly because of the storm..and partly because of a kid with a rag wrapped around his head...not seen him before.....so......put some pep in my step.....normally pepper spray at night.....but put the duds on and shoes....and headed out...me and the music...............funny how sometimes the run is sooo good...and so easy...so much easier than Sunday night.......even after mexican food 3 hrs. before.....ya' never know....maybe the diet pepsi...caffeine..?.....tomorrow...6 hopefully the rain will be gone.....later...plg

shawn..glad the trip went so well...see you saturday....pgilmore