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September 11, 2004
Another run, less than 12 hours later
I did not sleep all that well last night. I didn't figure it out until the alarm went off and I went to put my contacts in and realized that I forgot to take them out last night. I never sleep well when I leave my lenses in overnight. I usually only do that if I end up staying at a friend's house and have not planned on it. I think that even though it is sunny out today, I'm going to wear my glasses today to let my eyes rest.
I wasn't sure how this morning was going to go for two reasons. First, my race last night was not even 12 hours ago. I did not know if my legs were going to feel like a ton of bricks or not. The second was that I ate so late that my light dinner might not have been digested and my stomach would be upset. I really think that my digestive system works very slowly because I need so much time to digest my meals before I can run.
J, who keeps us in check on our early morning runs for the first few miles, was not there this morning. In fact, there was a very small group today. One of the guys was feeling really good, so our run was much faster than usual. I was planning on a semi-long run. The plan was to run an hour, I wanted to run closer to 75 minutes. Well, C was feeling so good that a course that would usually take almost an hour ended up only taking 53 minutes. We were all talking quite a bit which was nice since sometimes I end up by myself and can get lonely. Around 45 minutes my stomach was starting to feel queasy, but it was not so bad that I could not deal with it. I did add on quite a bit since I have a half-marathon next weekend. I gave up the idea of trying to get under 1:20 in it, but I still want to run well. Since I have not had many long runs, I thought it would be best to run for more than an hour today.
I went to the gym and got to run in the cooler pool. I wanted to pool run a little bit longer today, so I went for half an hour. I also brought a cap and goggles because I thought that I would swim some after. I did 10 laps and just did not feel like swimming. I didn't realize that I forgot to bring a towel until I was getting into my bathing suit in the locker room. Oh well, that's what my sweaty clothes are for. I know that it sounds gross, but I blotted off some with my sweaty shirt. I was only putting on running shorts and a sports bra to go into the gym to ride the bike and lift. I wasn't that wet since I saw someone I knew in the bathroom area of the locker room and stood and talked to her for a while, so I kind of drip-dried.
I rode the stationary bike for an hour while I read Glamour. When I got off to stretch, the queasy feeling came back, so I had to go deal with that for a while. By this time I really was not feeling like doing a whole lot of lifting. I did four exercises (chest, back, triceps, biceps)-three sets of fifteen reps for each, and called it a day.
Instead of doing grass loops on Monday night, I want to run some 800s on the track so that I can learn what pace I feel like I am running. My legs actually felt fresher this morning than they did at the race last night. I was a touch on the hungry side, but not so bad that I could not deal with it. The weather was much cooler, it was about 64 when I left. The humidity was still up, around 80%, but as the weather guy put it, "it's still drier than it has been for the past few days". I'm hoping that it really dries out some for next weekend. I've run this half in high humidity and it is really unpleasant.
Tonight my mom and I are having a girls night. We're going to do wine and cheese and watch a movie. It should be pretty fun. Of course, we don't have any wine or cheese at the moment, so we might just be watching a movie.
Posted by Blondie at September 11, 2004 12:23 PM