Wicked

My hubby and I went and saw Wicked last night. What a wonderful show! But we do love going to see shows. I had read the book (4 years ago!) and mentioned to my hubby that I wanted Wicked tickets for Christmas. Hubby liked the show, though he mentioned he wanted to know more about the spell book. The book "Son of a Witch" is out, maybe that explains a little more. We had bought the cd to listen to before we went saw the show and loved that Kristin Chenoweth from the show Pushing Daisies had played Glinda on the NY broadway show. We were bummed she wasn't doing the SF show. The woman who played Elphaba (was an understudy Sunday night) was awesome!! I'll have to get her name from my program but her voice was amazing!! I totally recommend the show and encourage everyone to see it.

On another note, my daughter loves the cd too, we've been listening to it in the car for the past week.

Running hiatus ended

As I posted before I was experiencing pelvic pain after a run I did a couple of weeks ago. Well last week after doing a couple of elliptical days I decided to try running again. First day I did 5 min of running (rest of workout was elliptical) and I had no pain. Two days later I did 10 min of running (rest of workout elliptical) and still no pain. This week I'll do a 15 min and 20 min run and see how that goes.
Hopefully this means I can go back to my 30 min runs 2x a week again.

Stupid Housing Market

I hate the housing market right now. We can't sell our house for what we bought it for but adding on is turning out to be not as cheap as we want it. (Who said contractors are starving?!) I don't think we could rent our house out as well as buy a new place without have big monthly bills. It just makes my head spin. I just wish decisions like this could be easier.

End of running while pregnant?

On Tuesday I went for my normal lunchtime run. 30 min on the treadmill, everything felt fine, I did run a little slower this time but not too bad. I go back to work and 2 hours later I feel really sharp pelvic pain. So bad that I had to walk really slow. The pain lasted all that night and the next morning I woke up with the same pain. I called Dr and they said it was common, they called it Round Ligament Pain but I had that early on at 16 or 18 weeks so I knew that wasn't the case. I think it was pelvic pain or Symphysis Pubis Dysfunction though my symptoms weren't that bad. My pain was only when I walked or stood. When I was sitting or laying down it was fine. On Wed night I was feeling a little better and my husband and I thought instead of cancelling my spin class that I teach I would go and go easy to see if that helps loosen the muscles. The spin class neither hurt nor helped the pain but it made me realize I just need to rest. It is now Friday and I felt a dull twinge twice today but that's it. I don't know if the running caused the pain or the bike ride I did outdoors on Sunday or whether it's the 3rd trimester of pregnancy. I'll see how this weekend goes and determine if next week I want to attempt another jog.

Running tally thus far:
235.44 miles left to go this year, 64.56 miles ran. 156.05 miles ran during pregnancy. 29 weeks, 3 days pg.

A mini triathlon at 28 weeks pg

A friend of mine called me back in Feb and asked me to compete in a triathlon with her (her first). She had forgotten I was pregnant and I questioned whether I could do it at 28 weeks pg. But as the weeks went on I knew I could do it, the tri was a super short sprint distance. But the 8 hour round trip drive as well as the entry fee just to show I could do it deterred me from actually signing up. But I still wanted to prove I could do it so I set up my own triathlon this past weekend and did fine at 27 weeks 6 days pg.
So my guidelines were to follow the exact distances of the aformentioned tri.
Here was their description:
Swim:
The swim will be 400 yards (16 lengths), in the pool at High School. Enter through the north side gate to the pool. After the swim exit the south gate into the transition area.

Bike:The bike is a flat fast 9 mile course out and back. Leave the transition area heading east on the access road. The bike turnaround is located at the Airport.

Run:The run is a 2 mile course mainly around the school campus. Leave the transition area heading east on the access road.

My idea was to swim at my local pool, jump out and bike and run in the neighborhoods near the pool. However I was worried about biking on city streets being pregnant. So I revised my plan and decided to have a long transistion time between swim and bike and drive up to a trail to finish my last two events. I had a friend of mine ride and run with me just to have someone there in case of emergency.

My mini tri stats: 550 yd swim-completed in ~12 min.
10 mile bike ride-completed in ~42 min (I have to check my GPS for exact times.)
2 mile run-completed in ~23 min (once again I have to see GPS)

I felt fine doing the tri, I was even clipped in on my bike. (That was another worry I had, being clipped in while pg but being on a trail and my riding experience helped.) I was exhausted by the end of the day though. :)

On a positive note, I looked at finishing times for the tri and I would have been around 5th in my age group with my times. Well, there was only 10 total in that age group, I told you it was a small tri. Maybe next year when I'm not pg I can finish in the top 3. :)

Workout Playlist

Everyone asks for suggestions on music for working out. As a spin instructor I'm always looking for new music and my favorites I add to a "Running Playlist" to inspire me while pounding the pavement.
Here are some of my current fav's:

Song Title/Artist (Songs in italics are my ultimate or current fav's)
Rebellion/Arcade Fire
Days Go By/Dirty Vegas
One More Time/Daft Punk
Girlfriend/Avril Lavigne
Hey Ya/Outkast
Shine On/Sunloverz
Temperature/Sean Paul
E/Drunkenmunky
Here it Goes Again/Ok Go
Dance, Dance/Fall Out Boy
Get Busy/Sean Paul
Gotta Get Thru This/Daniel Bedingfield
Ya Mama/Fatboy Slim
Jump N Move/Brand New Heavies
Read My Mind/Killers
La Grange/ZZ Top
Oh Timbaland/Timbaland
The Way I Are/Timbaland
SexyBack/Justin Timberlake
Big Girl/Mika
Love Today/Mika
Shut Up and Drive/Rihanna
Don't Stop the Music/Rihanna
Feedback/Janet Jackson
Calabria 2008/Enur
Harder Better Faster Stronger/Daft Punk
Forever/Chris Brown
Bleeding Love/Leona Lewis
Mercy/Duffy
Untouched/The Veronicas
The Anthem/Pitbull
Umbrella/Rihanna
Stronger/Kanye West
Closer/Ne-Yo
Someday/Strokes
Just Dance/Lady Gaga
Disturbia/Rihanna
Shake It/Metro Station
Face Down/Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
Let It Rock/Kevin Rudolf
Hot N Cold/Katy Perry
An Honest Mistake/The Bravery
Breathe/Prodigy
X-Ercize 5/Ziggy X
Derb/Derb
Muzaik/Infernal
Don't Go/Andre Visior
Say It Right/Nelly Furtado
Just Like a Pill/Pink
Flathead/Fratellis
Another Life/Party Pimz
Krupa/Apollo 440
The Gutterati/Fratellis
World Hold On/Bob Sinclar
A-Punk/Vampire Weekend
Mr. Brightside/Killers
Little Sister/Queens of the Stoneage
Everybody Loves A Carnival/Fatboy Slim
Waterman/Olav Basoski
Born For This/Paramore
When I Grow Up/Pussycat Dolls
Break the Ice/Britney Spears
SOS/Rihanna
So What/Pink
Shadow of the Day/Linkin Park
Right Round/Flo Rida
Low/Flo Rida
Bleed It Out/Linkin Park
Our Time Now/Plain White T's