A few things for which I am thankful:
1. My day off this week is Thanksgiving
2. My parents still being able to come visit for Thanksgiving
4. My husband being home for Thanksgiving
3. A great 6 1/2 mile run:
4. Spending several days with my entire family at once the week before Christmas
Happy Thanksgiving!
Though my goal was to get in at least one run during the week, it never happened.
I tried to make up for it today, but had dinner reservations, so couldn't run forever.
That made eating a big dinner all the better.
We tried The Chart House for the first time and had a fabulous dinner.
As my husband just announced: I regret to inform you that winter is here.
I'm trying to be happy that it was 65 over the weekend, and that I got to enjoy it with two great runs and night out on the town. But it's hard not to be upset it's so cold. I suppose it will be Thanksgiving next week, and it should be cold.
I wasn't so sure I was going to find clothes for the morning, but "feels like 13" is too cold for scrubs.
I'm again amazed how putting on my running clothes after I shower in the morning provides hours of reinforcement that I will go running today. Plus, it's a good outfit to clean the apartment in. Much like yesterday my legs took an awful long time to stop arguing. After about 2 miles I felt back to normal. But until then my quads, calves, abs, and even delts protested.
Slower than usual on purpose:
I was planning to run outside, but when I got there I realized I didn't have a wind layer on and that it was colder than I had thought. Running on the treadmill was much less work than going back up and changing my clothes.
Plus, it meant an hour of Will & Grace followed by the first 30 minutes of Monarchy: The Royal Family at Work: The State Visit on WGBH which was actually quite interesting. Yes, I'm a big dork.
I only had time for a quick run, and I was tempting fate with this radar:
My legs initially said no, however. After 8 miles yesterday they didn't want to go. I felt better after mile 2, but I wasn't sure if that's because my legs knew I only had time for 3 miles.
Half way through the month I'm at 30 miles, though the second half of the month will be busier, so I better keep get some more miles for padding.
This week got me down for a number of reasons. Changing services is always stressful especially when it means leaving a great rotation an awesome team.
I hadn't gotten to run since last weekend. Not running alone was bad enough, but no running during a bad week was even worse.
So I went for a long run Friday since my husband had left town, and who really needs dinner? It was surprising quite warm and I was actually overdressed.
This is what it looked like to run all the stress away:
And I like the trend in my running (though I'm sure the upward slope will stop with this run):
I basically did yesterday's run again today with a small extra bit at the end to top 20 miles this week.
It was pretty good the second day in a row, though a bit chillier when I started out. However, at this point my legs are wondering what I've done.
When I uploaded my run, I was greated with this:
Getting to 1000 this year would be only another 7.33 miles beyond my goal of 600 miles for 2008, but requires 115 miles over November & December.....we shall see.
Despite my wanting to lay on the couch all day and two naps before 3p, I actually convinced myself to go out running. I was smart enough to put my running clothes on after my shower this morning. Who wants to admit defeat by taking off running clothes without having actually run in them?
I got outside to find that it was the perfect day to run: 60 and overcast. There wasn't even the tiniest bit of chill in the air and my long sleeve shirt and capri tights were just right. And they were two of my favorite pieces of running clothing. Regardless, I still wasn't sold on the whole running thing. I was wishing my running partner wasn't on a plane some place.
This all lasted about 1/4 mile, and then the running took over. What is it that initial getting dressed and out of the house so hard?
It was a good run and I might have kept running except I more or less came to the end of my route at 6 miles, and I plan to run tomorrow though it won't be quite as warm.
I'm on my way back to bed after waking up at 6:20 on my day off. I've eaten breakfast and started to catch up on the blog'osphere. And I learned this about myself:
| You Should Be a Politician |
 Stubborn and opinionated, you can stand your ground... even if it's unpopular. And while you have strong views, you never overwhelm people with your opinions. A true charmer, you subtly influence people into seeing things your way. You do best when you: - Work according to your own rules - Can change the world with what you do You would also be a good lawyer or talk show host. |
I think it's pretty correct, actually.
Not really sure why I was so (relatively) speedy today, except that I hadn't run in 4 days.
I felt pretty good, the company was good, the weather was decent, and run we did.