NOTHING about our time together this morning was awesome. Okay..I take that back. The best part was being FINISHED with you. Seriously, why was today so hard? Was it upping my mileage so dramatically this week? Was it the HEAT? How about the fact that everything HURT? The worst pain was coming from my arches in my feet and my lower back. Usually I'm not grumpy THE WHOLE run AND afterwards but today I just am.
Running, I'm thinking I might need to look at my diet more closely, and make sure I'm better hydrated before these runs. I'm rolling my feet out on tennis balls and will spend some time on my foam roller to try to get the kinks out. Tomorrow we're heading to the gym for 2 1/2 hours worth of teaching fitness classes on what is supposed to be our "rest day." We might have to fix the schedule so we actually END UP with that rest day and swap it out for a cross training day.
The nastiest part of our run today was hurdling pieces of various roadkill. Isn't there someone whose job it is to clean all that up? Seriously, SO SICK! I saw a dead mouse, 2 greasy gophers, a flattened fox and a skunk's TAIL only. And I could SEE the heat coming off the pavement in waves. A 7 miles run that should have taken just over an hour felt like it was never-ending.
Today is officially going in the BOOK OF NOT AWESOME.
That's all.
Becka
Dear Becka - what, you're not pleased with the gifts I left along the highway for you? I'm trying to make your runs not seem so monotonous, you know, something different to see every day? Plus, in a pinch it'll provide you with heated protein - you did say you didn't like cold protein, right?
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