Don't be so hard on yourself. Maybe give your blisters a few days to heal and see what happens? Whatever you do in the princess half and however long it takes will still be great!
Thank you.
I am excited about the half! Unfortuantely, they don't give us more than 16 min miles to finish - which technically means I should be finished in 3.5 hours - but I am not quite there yet. Still running closer to 4 hours to finish.
Have you tried bodyglide for the areas prone to blisters? I see it here on the boards all the time for people doing a lot of walking at the parks and such. Just an idea! And good job on the walking! I am still using the melted snow here as an excuse for me
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Well, would you believe it has snowed 3 times here this year and they are talking about it AGAIN?? I don't ever remember a year when they talked about snow so much!
I do use the body glide - I actually have a blister blocker I use for my feet. These blisters came from using the wrong socks - and they are just being pesky and not healing.
Of course, it would help if I would STAY OFF of them! Instead I went to an AWESOME worship service at my church tonight and stood on them for over an hour. Whoops.
It was worth it!
Maroo
I just got to see the pics of your arm. I hope it is getting better. I really think you will be fine at the 1/2. Try letting your blisters heal a bit. Are you getting them in the same spots. Or all over still. If it is the same spots, then you can put large bandaids on before you walk to see if that helps them to not return.
About your tree....at our old house we had a huge beautiful pecan tree in our front yard. I loved it.
It fell during Katrina (as did all of the trees in our yard except one very small one. I was in New York when DH sent me a pic of it. I cried. I loved that tree. Now let's remember that my neighborhood was completely messed up as was my town and my house had damage, my work had damage, places I loved were completely wiped out, but the tree.....I cried. and when I finally came home and there was nothing but a big hole where it once stood.....I cried again.
Completely understand.
My neighbor and I were JUST talking about this. About how sad we were that that tree is gone...and how unbelievably sad we would be if our condo was gone...
I just simply can not imagine coming home to NOTHING after Katrina. I know you did not have as much damage...but those people we met down there - that left for a day or so for the storm to pass and came home to nothing. One family found one spoon. One. Spoon. So very sad. And I am sad for one little tree.
The birds are all flying around, though...we don't have many trees back there. Sad.
The blisters really are not coming in the same spots. It seems like once I get a blister somewhere, it basically is "covered"...it callouses or something...but I keep coming up with new places to get one. Right now one between my toes is throbbing! URG!
But the service tonight at church - it was for women only - was so awesome - and I just could not sit down for it all! Oh well.
I am taking off tomorrow and Monday (helping Lauren) from walking - so hopefully by Tuesday I will have better news.
There will be stories to match no others, I assure you!! We are already cooking up some very fun ideas for your belly laughing enjoyment!
Uh oh. I am terrified.
No getting discouraged, though I completely understand.
You should probably try to let the blisters heal, but I'm not a distance kind of girl, even when I walked consistantly, it was a 2.5 mile loop..and running?? only if something carnivorous is chasing me! I admire you so much for taking on the half, hon! As long as you do the best that YOU can, that's what counts. Not comparing your best to anyone else's, as hard as that can be. No feeling crummy..look at the big picture!
2.5 miles...now that is more my distance! Honestly.
I will be doing the very best I can. I am trying to make up with brain power what I lack in strength and think my way through this race. For example, I have been downloading songs with my walking beat so that I can listen to them. I figured out on Friday what my best "beat" is and am trying to find songs that are close to that beat so that I can run a bunch of songs if I need to keep pace.
Thank you so much for the pep talk!!
I am so excited for you all. :
