Happy President's Day

Sigh... Elisan is sick. She's been sick since Friday. I picked her up from school on Friday and she was complaining that her tummy was upset. Fast forward to Saturday, she began running a fever and is STILL running a fever. Thank goodness the meds have been bringing the temperature down and helping her to feel like her old self, but as soon as the medicine wears off... bam! Fever again.

I'm praying she's the only one who gets sick this week. And thanking God that today is a school holiday anyway! Perhaps she'll miss a nominal amount of school this week.

Meanwhile, Kyla misses her playmate. Elisan will feel well enough to play with her for about an hour, then she's ready to rest on the couch. Poor Kyla.

And me... ugh! I have a running injury! I could kick myself (if only I could raise my leg!) for it too. It all began when I thought I was ready to begin running intervals on the treadmill. An interval is a period of high intensity cardio and with a period of recovery. I was running 1 minute on the treadmill and walking a two minute recovery. I did this for about 45 minutes.

During the intervals I felt great! I was running a great pace and recovering quickly. Yet, as soon as I stepped off the treadmill and began my cool down with stretching, etc., I felt it. The pain in my hip. After doing MUCH research, it seems as if I've strained (hopefully, only a strain) my iliotibial band in my left hip.

So, I'm taking a break from running for now. I'm bummed about this, but hope that with adequate enough rest/recovery, I can get back into running in a couple of weeks.

And, I guess that's about all for now. I suppose I'll do a few things around here and play nurse-maid when needed.