« Windy, wet and wonderful | Main | Not much to report »
September 19, 2004
Glad they were sore
This morning I meant to do work while I waited for my friends to sleep off Reach the Beach, but...I slept, too. It just felt so nice with the cool breeze coming in....ahh. When we all finally woke up, my one friend and her husband decided that they wanted to join me on my little run. I was really nervous (they are pretty fast to begin with, and I'm not quite back to my usual pace) but they assured me they were quite sore from the relay. I couldn't convince my other friend to come with us, and she's pretty die-hard about not taking days off, so I decided to believe that the pace would truly be manageable.
And, it was. It was nice and chilly but sunny, so we had to dodge a lot of people enjoying the fall weather, but we had a lot of fun. I felt decent--not quite as excellent as yesterday but the time went by quickly and my knee was only bothering me toward the end. Today it was more of a stiffness than an ache--and I'll take it.
I feel kind of bad because I didn't do any other lifting, swimming, etc. today, but I drove everyone up to Manchester, where we had lunch with another old teammate and then I dropped my guests off at the airport. By the time I got home. it was almost 6 and I have not been able to do much schoolwork at all this weekend, so I figure I better make a dent. I guess rest is okay...sometimes. It's not my body that has a problem with it, it's my mind!
I was impressed with several performances at the Philly half today--Emily Kroshus ran really well for her first (I think) half marathon and many of the top D.C.-area women that I know PRed. I'm sure the weather helped, you can't get better conditions than this for a mid-September race on the East Coast!
Posted by becky at September 19, 2004 5:53 PM