I'm down but not out!

So my last blog was day 1 of my 12 week training and now I'm here telling you that I'm down but not out. What does that mean??? It means I had gallbladder surgery on Friday June 24th and now I can not train for my 1/2 marathon. I had been having upper abdominal pain and a feeling like there was a rock in the middle of my stomach. I had an ultrasound done and it found I had gallstones. My surgeon decided to do a CAT SCAN because he thought something else was going on and it found that I also have a hiatal hernia.

So here I am trying to lose weight and train for a long 13.1 miles and I've got things pushing on my lungs and making me hurt when I run but I pushed on.  I pushed on my training and LOVED it, I was enjoying my runs. I was enjoying the idea of running for a mile straight. This was HUGE for me because it had been a LOOONNNGGG time since I could do that. I was listening to good music on my shuffle and pushing myself without someone pushing me, WHAT! That's right I would push myself to run until I couldn't run anymore; Eye of the Tiger would come on and I would get excited and RUN, all 295 pounds of me would run without hurting. So I'm bummed out that I'm down right now because I was FINALLY enjoying exercising, I was FINALLY enjoying running. I even ran the day before my surgery.  The former me would have seen the surgery as a reason to not have to run, "why run since I can't after the surgery".  But I ran on Thursday and did 3 miles and it was an amazing 3 miles. The first mile I ran while pushing my 2 little girls in their BOB stroller (that was really hard to run and push a double stroller!) The second mile (Anthony had come up and taken the stroller from me) was all up hill in which I ran half and walked half and the third mile I ran the last 3/4 of it! I ran most of the 3 miles and FELT GOOD!!!!

The day of the surgery I asked my surgeon when I will be able to resume training and he asked me when the 1/2 marathon was. I replied Labor Day weekend and his face scrunched up while scratching his jaw. I looked at him with huge eyes waiting for his reply. "You could walk the 1/2 marathon" was his reply! In my head I was screaming "I can't walk the 1/2 marathon, I'll get picked up by the BUS!!!!"  He continued, "I don't want you running too soon. If you do run too soon you'll be in here again for me to repair an abdominal hernia, I have to cut through your abdomen to get your gallbladder.  You could start walking again as soon as you feel up to it." I just shook my head in agreement and smiled.

So like I said I am down but by no means out! I will now turn my focus to the Huntington Beach 1/2 marathon on Super Bowl Sunday. I need something to train for right now, I need to stay focused. I will be sad while everyone on Labor Day will be doing some type of race at Disneyland and I will be sidelined; even the baby will be in the diaper dash! But I will be a supportive mom and wife and cheer my family on. There's always next year, right?