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September 06, 2004
Feeling Stiff
On Saturday night when we went out to dinner, my father said that he wanted to go for a bike ride with me on Sunday. I agreed to go. He does not ride all that fast or long, so I knew that it would not kill my legs for my workout this morning. We rode a very leisurely ten miles. We were quite a sight. Me on my racing bike in cycling gear, my father on his hybrid in jeans and a tee shirt! It was cool and breezy and I swear that it was drizzling, but my dad didn't feel any drips.
When I got up this morning I knew that my workout was going to be LONG. I don't run particularly well in the morning. We had a small group since lots of people went away for the long weekend. I shuffled through the 2.5 mile warm-up. At this point I didn't know how I was going to be able to run the workout and the warm-down. I could barely get one foot in front of the other. I felt like I was still asleep and my long run on Saturday was still somewhere in my hamstrings. Since this is the fifth week of doing the loops on the grass fields, I had to bump up the time this week to 30 minutes. I don't care how fast I run on the grass as long as I have a pick-up for the push part. I'm more concerned with where I put my foot down. The weather was much more pleasant than it has been the past few Mondays. We've been doing these workouts when it is about 90 degrees out. This morning it was around 60 when we got started. I can't wait until the weather changes to cool every day. Not cold, cool. I made it through 8 loops in a few ticks over a half hour. Then we went about our longer warm down. Around the third loop, I felt like I was starting to wake up.
One of the girls I used to work with is turning 30 today. Her husband called when I was out running to invite me over for a barbeque and when I called him back he was laughing at me because I was out running so early on a holiday. They've gotten used to my crazy schedule and that my vacations revolve around races. He keeps asking me when he's going to see my picture in Runner's World. I told him that when I don't have to work a regular job anymore and marry a rich man!
On a good note, my shin did not hurt at all today. The doctor told me to take anti-inflammatories for it, but I don't really like to do that since I want to know if it hurts. If I can't feel something hurt I'm going to keep on going. I hope that the icing and stretching are taking care of whatever this is that is bothering me. I've been getting so frustrated because everytime one ache goes away, another one pops up. I am way too young to be going from ache to ache.
Posted by Blondie at September 6, 2004 01:05 PM
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Hi Blondie,
Thanks for the welcome email-I'm excited about getting to "know" everyone on eliterunning.
Glad to hear your shin is feeling better. And if you find a rich man to marry, let me know if he has a brother!
-Jessie
Posted by: jessie at September 6, 2004 07:23 PM