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September 22, 2004
Marathon Tuesday
Tuesday was a marathon of a day. I left the house around 7 in the morning and did not get back until about 8 at night. When I got home I had lots of work to do and didn't get to bed until later than planned.
I did get to sleep a little bit later since I had to go to a meeting for work at another site. This meeting started at 8:00 and my supervisor told me that I didn't have to come into our building at 7:00 just to turn around and leave. I didn't get to eat breakfast before the meeting and I knew that it would be rude to eat during the meeting, so I didn't get to eat my breakfast until almost 9:30 while I was driving back to work. This messed up my entire day of eating; I didn't eat a normal lunch since I wasn't hungry, so I just had a snack until later.
After work, I had an appointment to get my haircut. Then I went to pick up the pair of training shoes that I had ordered. While I was there, I changed into my running clothes. My friend J coaches a 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th-grade cross country team and I told him that I was going to come and run with the kids. I got over early and ran 20 minutes on my own before they got there. The warm-up with the kids felt like an eternity, but it was only about 7 minutes. The kids stretched and then they did striders. I didn't think that doing the striders and drills were a good idea for me since my legs were still feeling beat. The workout was doing a loop of grass hills. The goal for the JV was to just keep on moving, and the goal for the varsity was to do about 25 minutes. I did 20 minutes of the loop, but I was really just going through the motions. We warmed down on the warm-up course, about another 7 minutes and stretched some more. I enjoy doing this every now and then. J does a great job with the kids and they seem to really have a lot of fun.
After practice I had to go to the pharmacy and pick up a prescription. While I was there I bought a bag of ice so that I could take an ice bath. This time the water felt so much colder than it used to, but I know that it is good for my legs in my quest for recovery.
I finally got in touch with my massage therapist. We decided for a couple of reasons to wait until early next week to work on my legs. The first reason is that our schedules don't have a time available this week and the second reason is that I don't know how much work she would be able to do on my legs since they still feel very tender.
After dinner I had to get my resume together since I was getting together with a former co-worker after work. She's trying to get me a job at her new school where the employees are treated much better.
Posted by Blondie at September 22, 2004 05:48 PM