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August 18, 2004
So Tired
I know I mentioned this earlier, but I always seem to be exhausted. At the moment I do have the luxury of not needing to get up early in the morning, but it is only for another week until I have to go back to work. I will admit that I stayed up too late last night watching the gymnastics, but I could not drag myself out of bed for anything this morning. I never sleep really late even when I have the opportunity to, but this morning I could not wake up at all. I finally got myself out of bed and was watching Today on the couch and fell back asleep. By the time I was awake enough to do anything it was almost 10 o'clock! I'm starting to get worried about what I am going to do next week when I have to start getting up at quarter till six.
Yesterday afternoon I went for a run in the pool. I had the embarassing situation of a man thinking I was someone else. I must have about eight lookalikes in the area! I ran for half an hour in the deep end. I've been doing my pool running wearing a vest, but I wanted to try to run without the vest this time. My plan was to do the first 20 minutes wearing the vest and the last ten without it. When I took off the vest I could not keep my head above the water. I always wore the vest because I was such a serious swimmer when I was younger that I have a tendency to lean forwards and swim rather than staying upright and running. I put the vest back on for the last ten minutes since I didn't want the lifeguard who was not paying attention to any of the swimmers to think he needed to save me.
This morning I went for a shorter run since I am trying to build back to my usual mileage. Once I got moving I was feeling good and the thought of doing my usual loop entered my mind. After a moment of thinking, I decided it was better to leave my run at five miles, not seven. I wasn't truly injured, but I have been nursing some aches and soreness and I don't want to overdo it. I don't have any courses that are shorter than 7 miles from my house other than the 2 miles to the light and back. I decided to go out to the light and then added a big loop of the neighborhood and then do the 2 miles back from the light for a total of just over 5. I'm not sure how fast I was running since I was just going by feel today. You'll start to notice that I sometimes take a very relaxed approach to my runs. Don't get me wrong, at other times of the year I am much more concerned with time.
I was going to do another pool run today, but when it seems that the outside of my right knee feels weird after each time I run in the pool. Running makes it feel normal again. I might go to the gym this afternoon and do lots of stretching and light lifting. Or I might not do anything. If I listen to my body like I tell everyone else to I should rest. I am definitely looking forward to Friday. I think that I need a complete day of rest instead of a cross training day, but I will have to see how I feel tomorrow night.
Posted by Blondie at August 18, 2004 11:44 AM