Hello all.
I have nothing to blog about but given I just tried to FaceTime my sissy and she's not around, and am sitting here with iPad and glass of wine, I got to do something :)

Had my check up appointment at the doctors today. Given I am hypothyroid I have to have my bloods taken yearly to check I'm on a therapeutic dose of thyroxine. He decided to do a complete blood count too. These bloods were drawn 4 days after my race that I bonked during. And I am so happy to report they showed the reason for why I bonked. My sodium count was low. He suspects that during the race I was hyponatremic. In hindsight I felt thirsty right before the race. Consoled myself that I had had my usual intake and would be fine, that it was probably nerves. I won't ignore that sign again. Also my red blood cell count was low and he says my red blood cells a bit on the small side. This is nothing to be concerned about and I just need to supplement my diet more with iron, B vitamins and minerals. Good to have a reason and something I can actively work on.

He wasn't so happy however with my reports of my occasional spontaneous dizziness. It's happened in sitting standing and lying down. Most recently I was working on a patient and felt it come on and was a wee bit worried I may have to excuse myself. Thankfully it passed. So given my report plus having parents with cardiac history he decided to do an EKG today. I personally don't think it will show anything, but I'll find out next week. He may consider putting me on a halter monitor for a month. That should be fun to try and run with :)

Boys are well.. Other than Scott that is. He was working on his motorcycle tonight, it started to fall, so he tried to save it. Result......burnt his leg on a pipe. Oh, it made my skin crawl to see it. Thankfully not deep but the drawback of that is it will be pretty painful. Disgusting to see his skin stuck on this pipe. Yuck!!!!!!

Braeden had a day off today. We had some plans for what we were going to do after my doctors appointment and before Cade got home on a half day, but instead he ended up watching me get an EKG. Still he enjoyed watching it. And we had done donuts for breakfast (tasted so good after my 5 miler), then when we were done we headed to pita pit for a Philly steak pita, so he was quite happy. So lovely to get to spend time just the 2 of us even if we didn't do anything. This afternoon he was off to Lego robotics, then flag football practice tonight.

Cade's growing up. His interest right now are purely football, and working out to prepare for football. He has a girlfriend named Emily, and he has asked her to the 8th grade dance. She has ordered a pretty teal sparkly dress, and so Cade realizes that's sports shorts and t shirts aren't going to cut it, and has asked to go shopping for an outfit. I'm delaying it a little as I don't think the dance is til the end of the month, and I think. He is growing right now.

Gosh I almost forgot, I had Cade at the allergist this week. He has not been very well controlled with his symptoms over the past couple of years, and 2 weeks ago when I slept in his bed because I was worried his asthma was going to send us to the ER, I decided we should go speak to the allergist. He is such a wonderful doctor. Very thorough and great at educating me in all the aspects that need to be addressed. Long story short he is on a lot more meds now, with follow up in 2 months, then possibly a pulmonary function test.
One of the new meds he gave Cade a sample of until we could get the prescription filled. When Cade used this new inhaler, he initially was alarmed at the feeling, which was his lungs expanding, then after 2 mins he said " I feel like my body is breathing for itself instead of me having to breath for it". I nearly cried. Poor wee soul. Nice to have him feeling better already.


To finish, here are some photos I took of my drive home from Costco tonight. I have been mesmerized by the skies here in Oregon today. One minute sunny, the next stormy.













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Time to get blogging again. I said I would when I didnt chat to dad on FaceTime Sunday, leaving him to watch the last of the golf in peace.



Been really busy at work. With our new computerized documentation system along with increasing demands from insurance companies the paperwork side of my job it's taking a lot more time and effort than before. This has been leading to a lot of going back into work to get paperwork done after I have picked Braeden up from school. Braeden does well when I have to do this. Quietly does his homework and reading beside me but it's not something I can do long term. It's not fair as it pulls my attentions from him and leads to Cade often coming home to an empty house. Not to mention, Braeden is very susceptible to picking up on my stress levels no matter how much I try to hide it. So, fingers crossed, my boss has said she will look into the ability for me to access doing my documentation from home. That would take such a load off :)

Speaking of Braeden being able to pick up on how I'm feeling, he did it again on Saturday after my pear blossom race. His soft comforting eyes and gentle squeezes brought me to tears after a disappointing performance. I was my best trained, best rested, and fueled the way I always did, but it all fell apart and I came in at my worse time ever. I had trained to be able to finish in 90-91.5 mins, but instead came in at a 96 mins 50 secs.

The day started well. Travelled to the race with friends Kate and Danielle. Met up with Danielle's friend Kelly. A few race day nerves but got rid of those quickly with the help of some good laughs with other runners. Not to mention we found an inside bathroom without a line. That's gold on race day!! :)



We headed to the start placing ourselves not too far back in the pack to reduce how much weaving we would have to do at the beginning. The gun fired and we were off. The first few miles felt great. Legs felt good, energy abound, conditions excellent. Sun was out. I was running at my planned pace on 8:50. At one point had notice 8:11 on my watch but it was too soon for that so I pulled back a little. After mile 3 it's ok to pull out a faster pace.

As I was approaching mile 4 it all suddenly fell apart. Legs began to feel like concrete. Grabbed some water, maybe just getting thirsty. No change :( mile 4.5 took in some jelly beans as I headed up the hill. I actually like some incline. My technique seems to improve usually but not today. Legs like concrete. Mile 5 half way there "you can do this" I told myself. I've been running 10 most Sundays. This isn't any different. But still I could not shake the heavy legs feeling. By this time I had lost my mental anchor of Danielle, who was running the pace I had prepared to do. The last 5 miles is a blur. Don't remember hearing a single song on my playlist. Fought between walking it out, and picking up the pace again but my legs never got better. Ran under a hose provided. Boy that was a mistake. Felt myself take those fast short inhales you do when you have been crying a lot. 2 miles to go, surely I could do that. Nope!! More walking. Finally finished, crossing the finish line shaking, shivering, disorientated. Danielle and Kelly, they finished at 89 mins, were great. Grabbed a banana, Gatorade and water, and encouraging me to take some in. But only tiny bites and sips were possible. What went wrong????? This should've been an easy race for me. although not happy with my time, that's not what's upsetting. An average 9:41 pace over 10 miles ( especially when I walked a lot) is not too terrible. Reality is it's only 40 secs per mile slower than what I had planned. It was feeling so terrible that upsets me. But after all the analysis, I just have to reconcile it just wasn't my day. My body must be missing some nutrient or vitamin to have broken down that badly on what is not such a long distance.



Here I am held up by Danielle on the left, Kate on the right.


A close up showing a glimpse of an "out of it" Lucy.


So Sunday morning I got up for what I now call my reconciliation run. Scott and the dogs took me out to remind me how much I love to run and we did 4.25 in 35:57 mins. And it felt great. Then this morning we headed out for a moonlit 5k finishing in 25:30. So I am reassured that I haven't lost it, just got to have my first real experience of "runners bonk" this last weekend :)

Braedens flag football team coached by Scott did win this weekend though. 20-0. And both boys have been doing state testing in school and scored in the exceeds category so that's great. Life's not too bad at all now is it??









Right, I'm done for now.

Will be back soon I hope

Love to all

Lucy xxxx

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