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January 31, 2005
A Tale of Two Runs
This is going to have to be quick since I am absolutely exhausted from today. I hardly slept last night and woke up extra early this morning to do my first run of the day. Then, to top it all off, we had 15% of the staff out today, so all of us who were at work had to pick up the slack.
This mornings run would have been really nice, if I had gone out of the house yesterday. I had my route all planned out so that I could be on autopilot. I rolled out of bed, put on my clothes, put in the contacts, brushed my teeth and was out the door. Yesterday's snow was not plowed, resulting in 2 inches of ice on the development streets. My brain was working enough to grab a flashlight before going out the door since Dad's headlamp needs batteries. I had to go to plan B to get off the icy streets. Since I have a propensity towards falling, running on ice in the dark was just not a good idea. I felt good enough, albeit still asleep. The run ended up being about 27 minutes, maybe 3.75 miles.
This evening we could not run on the track. J left a message for me when I was at work that he could not make it tonight since he had to work overtime. He left detailed instructions as to what the workout was supposed to be: 4 parkway loops, hardly a difference in pace from the pick-up to the recovery. Rumor has it that one loop of the parkway is 0.9 miles, but it seemed shorter and faster than that. I The problem with running on the parkway is dodging cars, although it is cleared and fairly well lit. It is not that bad when there is no other option. My four loops were 5:07, 5:06, 4:54, and 4:54. On the fourth loop I had to go way out of the way to avoid an oncoming car. With a longer warm up and slightly shorter warm down, I think that it worked out to about 8.5 to 9 miles. That brought me to about 13 miles for the day, which is longer than practically any run I've done thus far this year.
Mom is supposed to start her chemo on Wednesday. She isn't sure which course of treatment she is going to get yet because she is participating in a national clinical trial. She says that she is not necessarily looking forward to it, but she wants to start it since the sooner she gets started the sooner she is done with it. She went for bloodwork and to have her port flushed today. She also went to the surgeon for another follow-up to see how the tumor site is healing up. She is coming along and for the most part her spirits are good.
Posted by Blondie at January 31, 2005 08:55 PM
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I hope everything goes well for your mom.
You must be exhausted - I hope you got some better sleep last night!
Posted by: Barb at February 1, 2005 12:00 PM