For my birthday my longtime friend, Shannon, bought me some new running shoes. She works for New Balance and has been trying to convince me to give New Balance a try. Just as my Asics (which I bought from Feet Fleet on April 5 and was told would last for many more miles than what I have put on them) are starting to come apart inside at the heel, my new shoes arrived in the mail. They are New Balance 1260. I transferred my insoles to the new shoes and have used them all week with no problems. The new shoes seem to be lighter, which makes me feel a little lighter and faster. My paces have been faster on my shorter runs this week, but my long run was fairly typical. I had some faster miles, but I also had some slower miles due to all the hills on today's run. My average pace today was 11:20, which is at the faster end of my goal time for my long runs. Instead of running in the subdivision today, I parked at a Shop n Save down the road and then ran a big loop where I only had to retrace my steps on about 1.5 miles. I had run on some of the road before, but not other. Though I had driven all the roads before, they look different through a runners eyes. I didn't realize how hill the latter part of my run was going to be. My first 6 miles were at a much better pace than my last 5. I really set out planning to run 12 miles, but the temperature started to climb into the 80's toward the end of my run and I ran out of water at mile 10. These factors combined to cause me to decide to stop running after 11 miles. I then walked 1 miles, so that I did complete 12 miles in total. I carried my phone today and played music. Everyone keeps telling me I need to run with music. It was nice at times to have the music on, but then I kept messing with it when a song would come on that was too slow or I didn't feel like listening to. I don't feel like it really helped my pace, but I'm going to create a running play list and try again to see if it makes a difference.
Dave ran 20 miles today on his new New Balance shoes and felt great. He has been happy with his new shoes. His prior shoes were also New Balance (bought on sale at Kohl's 3 or 4 years ago- not exactly running shoes made to last as many miles as he has put on them), but he finally realized that it might be time for some new shoes as he began increasing his mileage.
After our long runs, we sometimes like to go out to lunch. We figure after burning 1400 calories for me and over 2000 calories for Dave, we can afford the extra calories from eating out. We went to Llewellyn's Pub to relax with some good food and drink.
We then made a trip to visit Dave's mom in the hospital. She had multiple seizures on Thursday night and has been in the hospital since. Jim, Dave's dad, came home from the hospital to find Heidi in an awkward position on the couch. He tried to rouse her, but when he touched her she began to seize. He called me over and called 911. The ambulance came and they took her to the hospital. She was out until sometime the next day. Now she is awake but for the most part incoherent. We can't tell what she does or doesn't understand or comprehend. It is difficult watching a loved one go through such a difficult time. The seizures were caused by the cancer lesions in her brain. She has lung cancer and although they were able to get the tumors to recede from her lungs and liver with chemo, the ones in her brain are still there. She began radiation on Monday, which made us hopefully that she was one step closer to remission. Now after the seizure it is really difficult to see such a strong opinionated woman reduced to laying in a hospital bed unable to communicate. The doctor's don't seem to really know how long it will take for her to bounce back from the seizures. Now we are just playing the waiting game.
After the hospital, it was time to come home and take a long nap. I hadn't really gotten a good night's sleep the last two nights so the nap was definitely needed. I slept an hour and a half and really think I could have slept even longer, except then it would probably effect my ability to sleep tonight. Please send up your prayers for Heidi's recovery from this latest set back, and that she will be able to resume her radiation and move towards remission.
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