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September 23, 2005
Wickedly Fun
Wow, so all of a sudden I feel like I am very behind on my blog. I cannot believe I neglected it yesterday as I had lots of free time, but I hadn't run yet while I did have free time.
Anyway on Wednesday Matt and I had planned to run 4 miles. He is having a pretty busy week at work and for some reason he had to bring his pager and I had to bring his cell phone in my amphipod, and when he got paged 20 minutes into the run he had to do a few things. Then after he got paged he had to get home as quickly as possible, so we ended up running 3.5 miles instead of 4. However, on the way home Matt was trying to hurry so that he could do stuff for work, and he went so fast! I was really proud of him. We were probably running 9:00 pace which is really good. However, right when we were turning onto our street, Matt ran over a root or something and twisted his ankle. Poor guy! I hope he will be feeling better by next weekend when we run our 5k.
So that was lots of fun, I love running with Matt. Yesterday I slacked and slacked and finally started running at 4:00. I really should have run first thing in the morning but it was such a nice day later on that it was nice to be able to run in the middle of the afternoon. However, I had cereal for lunch and a lot of times dairy products just do not sit well in my stomach. It was kind of churning the whole time I was running. However, something about that must have been good as I finished my 8 mile loop in 1:08, which is my second fastest time ever on that run. So I am thinking I'm pretty much recovered now from my half marathon if I am able to run that kind of time. I really did not feel like I was straining much or running terribly fast so that is good news too.
Last night we went to see the musical Wicked, which is touring in Denver right now. It was so much fun and we really enjoyed it! However, I was kind of in bad shape as I will explain. So I ran at 4:00, and finished right after 5:00. I took a quick shower and we left home at 5:45 which was pretty soon after I finished running, and my stomach was still a little jacked up. We went to this place that has great steaks for dinner and we got a cocktail there. This drink just knocked me on my tail, I was really wasted after I drank a little less than half of it. Which was bad. I was guzzling water the whole time as well but it didn't seem to help. I started eating to see if I could sober myself up a little bit, because I really didn't want to be drunk at the show. Of course once I started eating my stomach felt terrible! So I was not feeling good at all. When we got to the play all of a sudden I could barely keep my eyes open. And I was behind an abnormally tall person so during the first half of the play I couldn't really see anyway. I almost fell asleep at one point! How embarrassing. After the intermission I felt a lot better, although I did have a raging headache. But at least I could see during the second half (although Matt couldn't), which kept me awake.
So the lesson there is, don't run, have a strong drink, eat rich food, and try to go to a three hour play!
Tonight we are going to a white trash party, which is always a good time. I hope I'll have time to run between work and the party but if not, a day off never killed anyone. I hope everyone enjoys the weekend!
Posted by barb at September 23, 2005 09:55 AM
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Oh, do tell, what on earth is a "white trash party" ????
Posted by: Dawn at September 23, 2005 02:30 PM
This White Trash Party sounds suspiciously similar to Trailer Trash Tuesday parties that I have attended, wherein men must wear dirty wife beaters and womens aren't allowed to wear shoes. If ever one needs an excuse to party. :)
Posted by: MandM at September 23, 2005 11:59 PM