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October 11, 2004
Candy Corn Withdrawl
I haven't had a chance to replenish my stash of candy corn. Yesterday I was planning on running into the grocery store and picking up candy corn among other essential foods when my friend S called and said that she was on her way over and wanted to go shopping. We went to Anthropologie instead. She shopped, I just looked because I couldn't justify buying something that I can't either run in or wear to work. So now I'm going on four days with none of the sweet stuff. I guess that it won't kill me to deprive myself of it, I'll just appreciate it more when I re-stock.
A big thank you to everyone for all the good luck wishes and congratulatory messages. As Beth put it, one of the best things about running a new distance is it will definitely be a PR. I know that the next time I race that distance I have something to shoot for. Looking back I realized that I run that 6:20ish pace anytime I shut down in a race. When I am by myself for long periods of time, I just go to that pace. Today I know that I could not have put all that much effort into the race because I did not feel beat up at all. I felt fine. By the time I was really warmed up I felt like I could have done a workout.
Since I am smarter than trying to do a real workout the day after a "hard effort" kind of race, I did go to the track, but didn't do the workout. I did the warm-up, then J and I did 12 laps with the backstretch as striders and jogged the other 300. Then we did the warm-down for a total of 8 miles. J and I were talking and I said that I should have realized I was in trouble when I said that I thought the warm-up pace was fast yesterday. Tonight wasn't anything too exciting.
I have to finish my job application. This thing is turning into a nightmare. I have to get my SAT scores from high school which are long gone and sumbit them to the department of education, aghh. I also need to write my letter of interest and get to bed at a decent hour...
Posted by Blondie at October 11, 2004 08:03 PM