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March 25, 2005
Tired Friday
I am toasted today. Just exhausted. It's 2:30 and I would love to go home, crawl into bed, and sleep for a good 2-3 hours right now. Sadly, I must work.
Here is the story with regard to running for the last day and a half. After work yesterday I had a few hours before we had to meet friends and traffic was truly awful due to ice/snow falling out of the sky. So I went to the gym and ran a very mellow 4 miles on the treadmill, which gave me 13 for the day. The first mile was kind of rough but after that I just vegged out and watched TV so before I knew it, I was done. Then I drove home in still-bad traffic, took a nice long hot shower, and when Matt got home we walked over to our neighborhood pub to meet our friend M. and her very nice new boyfriend S. Which was a good time but I certainly did not get to bed at a very reasonable hour, which explains why I am so tired.
This morning I really did plan to get up and run at 6:30 but I really couldn't make myself do it. This turned out to be a very good thing because when I walked outside to go to work I took a big digger due to ice on the stairs. How embarrassing. Luckily I was not seen but now my neck hurts! Needless to say that would have been a craptacular, cold, slippery run. So sometimes it pays off to be a slacker, kids.
At lunchtime I barely convinced myself to run, but somehow I did. When I got to the gym and realized that I forgot socks it was pretty tough and I almost just took a steam and said forget it. But instead I ran with my work socks on (not recommended, but it'll do in a pinch). I did an 8 mile course that's kind of my standard run in this area of town. It was actually quite pretty along this trail that I run on for about 8 minutes of the run, with the snow on the trees against a very gray sky. However it would still be nice if it were 60 degrees outside instead of 30! Now as of today I've got 44 miles for the week I believe, so 60 should not be a problem unless I turn into a major slacker. That will be good. Tomorrow I am off to practice for a tempo run type of thing and Sunday I want to get up WAY early (we're meeting friends for breakfast at 8:30 so I am definitely not kidding) and run for a reasonable amount of time.
Happy Easter! May the Bunny bring you some good treats. And may he bring me some positively delicious marshmellow peeps!
Posted by barb at March 25, 2005 02:26 PM
Comments
I could definitely go for a peep! They make them for other holidays now, which I know because they are made about 2 hours from here and there is a yearly news piece on the company!
One peep would do it for me. Speaking of candy, mine is going to the nurses at "the home".
Blondie
Posted by: Blondie at March 25, 2005 03:47 PM