jogging final

so for my jogging final I was super tired and my leg was killing me but somehow i was able to finish my mile in 8.03 which is pretty good! and the best time that I have gotten. I do think i could have done better if my leg hadn't been hurting!

Now I am doing a bootcamp with my mom for a while! It's a lot of fun but doesn't have me running as much... I think I'll have to make Katt get up and run with me!

MRI results

So I went to the orthopedics's office yesterday! I had gotten my MRI last week and was going in to get the results from the scan.

After looking at the pictures and stuff the orthopedic came in and told me that my MRI showed that I was perfect! there is nothing wrong that they can see from the MRI :( So basically we have no idea!

So Next month I have an appointment with a neurologist who is going to test my nerves. Basically the orthopedic thinks that it might be a compressed nerve that is causing the pain. So basically we still have no idea what is wrong and I have to wait another month until we will maybe have any idea!?

ugh....


Meanwhile... I ran a timed mile yesterday to see my time this time around.

so the results 9.40 which isn't to bad and considering my leg hurts and it was freezing which makes it much harder to breathe so 9.40 is not bad at all.

I'm actually really proud that I can run as much as I do! I never thought I would be able to run at all!

Let's Get MUDDY

So it's a little after but I haven't had time to post yet!

On July 18th my friends Barb and Elizabeth decided to do a mud run with me. Yes a mud run crazy!!

A mud run basically is a 5k run in mud. There are also some obstacles like walls to climb over and pits of mud and a lagoon you wade through some crawling and some tubes you have to climb through. It was really run and really muddy!

Liz and I finished the run with a time of 46.17 which is pretty good! We would have gotten a better time but we had to wait for people in order to go over some of the walls. Liz doesn't run as much as I do so we did more walking than I would have liked to do but it's all good! At least I didn't push myself to much!



Today was cardio day at boot camp. The last cardio day that I went to (a few months ago) I was able to run about 2 miles. Today I finished 3.25 miles! AWESOME! I was so excited to be able to run that much farther. Of course I can't run that strait but I am working my way there.

Marta wants to run a 5k before her birthday on 9/9/09 so my goal is to be able to run a 5k by then with her.

See Jessy Run

Well more like Jog slowly...

Since the Physical Therapist said that I could try "jog/walking" whatever that means, Saturday I put on my running shoes got the dog leash and went out.

I did stretch a lot and put on my compression wrap to make sure that I would be ok. I was able to get around the block (1.5 miles) without stopping to walk (except to pick up and throw away dog poop) and without real pain! I was so excited! So of course again today at bootcamp I had to try!

At bootcamp I was able to get around the parking lot without pain. I was jogging with my mom which was slower than I normally do but I wanted to make sure that I was not going to push to much!

So it looks like I might be able to start working towards that 5k again!!! Slowly is the key! I need to remember not to push myself yet I am still healing and working towards stronger legs.

Pain!!!

OH Dear!!! I went to the physical therapist today! It was the most painful visit yet! It is a good thing that it was so painful but it hurts!!

She figured out the spot that is making my leg hurt it's in my medial hamstring. So she "massaged" more like dug into my muscle. It was so painful in the hamstring but when she did that it didn't hurt the other part of my leg so strange. There is no real reason that it should hurt on the lateral lower leg when the actual problem is in the medial hamstring but that's just how it works!

So now that we figured out what the problem is we should be able to work it out and strengthen it so that i can get running again soon!! yay!!

I feel so lame not being able to run and watching everyone else run not to mention not being able to do lunges and squats so dumb...

First Blog

Hi I am Jessy! I have never been a runner before. Not even really a jogger. In junior high and high school i could not even run the mile. I would run for a little and then just walk the rest of the way. It's not that I gave up I just couldn't do it. While I was playing volleyball in my sophomore year of high school i hurt my ankle and was unable to or jog at all. Finally my senior year of high school I went to a orthopedic who said I severely pulled a tendon in my ankle. He put me in a cast and crutches for 3 months. After that I had a lot of physical therapy and things to get me back to being able to walk and do normal things forget ever running. I have also been over weight my whole life. I decided it was time for a change I need to set some goals and start exercising more so that I could be in shape!

This year I decided I wanted to become a runner. It's now been 4 years since I graduated high school so i figured it was time! I knew I couldn't just go out of my house and start running that would be crazy!! So i signed up for the orange county adventure boot camp in February! My mom also signed up and we started working towards our goal together! Her goal is to lose 50 pounds in her 50th year! since she turned 50 this year! her is her blog:http://bootcampat50.blogspot.com/

At the boot camp we started doing a little bit of jogging with other circuit exercises! It was surprisingly really fun! I love it! it's 530-630 every morning for 4 week intervals! During my second boot camp Sam (our coach/trainer) decided to have us do a timed mile at the beginning to see how we improved by the end of the month. I thought there is no way I can run a mile! I will die! I almost skipped camp that day just to get out of it! but I went and to my surprise i was able to run/jog the entire mile! I could not believe it! and I ran it in 10.49 I could not believe it was even possible!

At the end of the camp I ran it in 10.09 40 seconds faster! I was so excited I could run an entire mile without stopping or walking!

My first goal on this journey is to run a 5k! I did set the goal for running it in June but i injured my leg somehow and am now in physical therapy for a month. My doctor and physical therapist said I am not allowed to run for 1 month. This is now week 2 and it is killing my not to run at all!

I am signing up for a 5k race in August! hopefully I will be able to train and run it by then! The 5k that I signed up for I am able to take my dog and run with her. That should be really awesome! She is going to have to do all of my training with me because she cannot run a mile strait yet either! I tried to take her but I end up dragging her by the time I get to a half mile!

It looks like as soon as I am cleared to run I have a lot of training to do!!