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February 03, 2005
Drug-Induced Sleep
Generally I do not like to take anything to make me sleep. Although I have had sleeping issues for years, I prefer to let nature take its path-eventually my body will make me sleep. Knowing that I was going to have to get up super-duper early this morning, I took some of the prescribed medicine that I have. I made sure that I took it really early in the evening so that I would fall asleep early and not feel like I was a zombie when I went out to run. It worked...I fell asleep early and slept straight through the night. I still felt like a zombie when I was running, but I think that is to be expected when it is only 5:15 in the morning.
This morning's run was rather uneventful. The roads were not too bad and it was not all that cold. A few spots were still on the icy side, but they were pretty obvious. While I was out I got to thinking that I miss having a running partner at times. I do enjoy getting to run alone, but sometimes I would really appreciate some company. It would make the time go faster and it would be so much easier to have to meet someone when it is only 5:15 in the morning and very cold. The main problem is that I have sort of earned the reputation of someone who is not that easy to run with...at least from some of the women around. Most of the guys end up wanting to push harder so that they can shake the girl, so those runs end up being way to hard. Oh, well.
Tonight we started to do the hills. My only objective was to get up and down the hill. Sometimes I get "interval" face on which is almost as bad as race face. This usually happens when certain people come to the track. I feel like I have to beat them for whatever reason, probably to keep my racing instincts sharp. Tonight I was very well behaved. One of the individuals who brings that out in me was at the track. The only workouts she ever does are the hills and she really pushes the hills. J reminded me to just go up and down and let the hills come to me in the next few weeks. After all, I am adding quite a bit of mileage. Both runs today came to about 13 miles, 4 in the morning and 9 in the evening.
Eagles fever is all around. Tomorrow I'm wearing my Eagles green sweater to work. I can't wear any of my official t-shirts, they're just too casual for the workplace. So far I'm just hanging out at home to watch the game since I can't really have too much fun because 5:00 is very early in the morning. GO EAGLES!!!!!
Mom is feeling a little sick to her stomach today. She feels more like she has a bad sinus headache than anything, she gets sick to her stomach when she gets those. The nurse told her today that people who have headaches tend to get that feeling after chemo treatments. She's going to get her haircut tomorrow and I'm meeting her at the salon after work. Her decision was that she would be in charge of losing her hair and just get it cut before it starts to fall out. All of her doctors told her that she is going to lose her hair. I think that next weekend we might be going to buy her wig. She got flowers from my brother, my dad, and a colleague...our house is virtually a flower shop. Our allergies are going to be out of control!!
Posted by Blondie at February 3, 2005 08:13 PM