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March 01, 2005
Vacation Stress
As Alison commented yesterday, very rightly so, getting ready for a vacation is incredibly stressful! I like to pride myself on not being a stress case but hoo boy I sure am right now. Last night I was such a case I could hardly sleep (which of course makes everything worse). We went out to dinner last night at a new restaurant (it's probably been around less than a year) for this Restaurant Week thing. It's a pretty good deal and a decent excuse to go out and try some of the nice restaurants in town without spending piles of money. Because it was fun, and because some other friends are going tonight, we are going again tonight! This of course does not help my stress situation at all but it's fun. I have made a sad decision to give up my ticket to the Modest Mouse concert on Thursday. I will just be freaking out about packing and stuff if I go and frankly I am not that into them anyway so it's not worth freaking out. Although I still can't really decide so I hope Matt hasn't given my ticket away quite yet!
Wait, is this blog about running? Hmm, I think it is. I am all fired up about running this morning. I ran my Wash Park 8-mile loop in a new PR this morning of approximately 1:11.05. I really want to know exactly how far this is, I should take my GPS on it one of these days. Then I added on 9 minutes to make it a 9 mile run. I felt tired because of not sleeping well but overall I felt pretty good and I am happy that after the effort of feeling like I was running kind of hard, I actually did run it fast. I hope it's over 8 miles though! I would feel lame if I thought I was running hard and I was doing like 8:50 pace. So that was a good run. I am feeling like I can run a decent half marathon in May which will be cool. Luckily since I've never even run a halfway decent half, I am sure to PR!
Hope everyone has a good day!
Posted by barb at March 1, 2005 09:02 AM