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June 24, 2007
Can't complain
I was nervous when I woke up today because it was a running day, and I was meeting Camille. I warned her that I didn't know how I would feel and I might need to do the run/walk thing, but she was game for that like a good friend and running partner would be! I was glad we were meeting in Georgetown near the Canal because I know it is such a good surface to run on--it makes me less worried about injuring myself/exacerbating current injuries.
I had a tiny bit of discomfort--I won't call it pain--on my kneecap that seemed to move from the outside to the inside for the first few minutes, but then I felt better once we settled into our pace. I looked at my watch when I thought of it and it was 19 minutes, so I made sure we turned around at 20 to head back. I felt good, certainly a lot better than I've felt in weeks, so this was not easy. But as I said to Camille, it is better to turn around now and be able to run longer next week (hopefully)!
I stretched a bit after we got back to our cars and was elated that nothing felt weird. When I got home, I rode the trainer for a bit but not too long because I was getting very low-blood sugar. But even though I was hungry, I was happy because my run had gone well.
This afternoon, Matt and I went down to a Farmer's Market near Dupont Circle to get some veggies (and a delicious homemade blueberry scone, of which I ate 90 percent). We were hot after walking around a lot. It is supposed to go back to normal hot and terribly humid weather this week so today wasn't too bad, but it was still almost 90 degrees and sunny, so I would call that hot. After that we went to a few open houses in Bethesda. One of the houses was awesome and literally steps away from one of my favorite trails. But it was a little out of our price range.
I feel slightly tempted to go lift or bike or something right now, but I'm also kind of tired and just want to chill out. I think I'll do some abs and call it a day since I am trying to be (a little) more balanced with my working out.
Posted by becky at June 24, 2007 5:43 PM