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October 2, 2004
I didn't fall off the face of the earth...
Wow, it's been a long time since I've been able to update this. For some reason, whenever we get a hard, heavy rain, we lose phone service at our house. Tuesday was definitely a hard, heavy rain. We got over 8 inches of rain from 3:00 in the afternoon until midnight. There were two confirmed tornadoes around here as well. Thankfully, nobody was hurt in either of the tornadoes, but there were a few deaths from people trying to go through the deep water. The phone company gives us a hard time every time we lose service, and even though we complained on Wednesday, they would not come out to fix our phone line until this morning. Since we are decidedly low-tech, we have dial-up Internet service, so no e-mail or blogs for me.
Seeing as we had so much rain on Tuesday afternoon, and I was getting a much needed massage, it was a good day to take off. The massage was much needed. She did see some swelling in my ankle, but said that it was not anything too severe. I still have a bruise on my right calf. She does such deep tissue work, but it makes me feel so much better. After the massage, I did go to the gym and ride the stationary bike very easily for an hour and then lifted. I tried to stretch really well after the massage.
Wednesday I ran 15K with the race director of the 15K that is coming up soon. I wanted to see the course first, so I got in touch with the RD for a course tour. I got a nice surprise day off from work since there was so much flooding. Part of the course was flooded out, but at least I got to see the course so that I'm familiar with it on race day. We started out easy and gradually picked it up to my usual pace for the last few miles. Afterwards, I went to Spinning. My legs were not ready for a hard hill workout in class, but I wanted to go for some non-impact cross training.
Thursday was an aborted workout. My stomach was upset all day. I looked so bad that our secretary asked me if I wanted to leave early because I was so pale. Anyhow, I got to the track and ran the warm-up. I knew then that it was not going to be pretty, so I didn't even bother putting my flats on. The workout was 2x3200. I was 600 meters into the first one when my stomach went on me. I ended up taking care of business. I ran a hard mile and tried to start the second interval, but my ankle just was throbbing. One of the guys tapering for a marathon next weekend rubbed it out for me some and I ran the easy warm down. I decided that it was not worth trying to push through the discomfort and my stomach was still feeling rumbly.
Friday is my usual day off, but I felt lazy since I had already taken off on Tuesday and aborted the workout on Thursday. The weather was so nice that I wanted to go out. I ran a very easy 4 miles and really tried to hold back since I knew that I was going to be running long today.
Now on to today's long run. I planned to run our out and back course, but nobody wanted to go with me. I didn't get up early to run two hours by myself. I decided to run the hour with the folks I started with. Of course we ran a hilly course and did not run it easy. I then went on to do a 7 1/2 mile hilly course to finish up. Around 1:40 in I made a potty stop and massaged my ankle since it was starting to feel tight. I had to run the last mile and a half up a hill (this was two hilly courses put together, my legs were pretty beat as I was finishing). I got back to my car at 1:57 and change and it was starting to rain. The thought of running around the parking lot in the rain for 2 minutes wasn't too appealing, and 1:57 hard is better than 2:30 putzing.
I headed over to the gym and did the bike really easy for an hour, stretched and lifted. The biggest cross country invitational in our area is about 2 miles from the gym, so I went over there after my workout. I wanted to cheer on the guys who ran with us all summer. A has been my Saturday morning partner for the past three summers, so I wanted to cheer him on as well as some of the other HS runners who trained with our group this summer.
The weather is just damp and cool today. I was getting chilly by the time the JVs were getting started, so I left after the varsity races. My ankle was feeling sore since I hadn't iced it yet and I was standing for over two hours. I got to take a long, hot shower and now I'm typing this with an ice pack on my foot.
I'm feeling better about the race next week. I've seen the course and I got another long run under my belt. If I rest, ice, take anti-inflammatories and take care of myself, I expect a decent race.
I hope that we don't lose our phone service again any time soon. There's my bare bones update on what I've been up to this week for running.
Posted by Blondie at October 2, 2004 3:26 PM
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