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February 24, 2005
Early Dismissal
This morning, somehow, I was able to wake up a minute before the alarm was set to go off at 4:55. Chalk it up to Tylenol PM and the fact that I have been exhausted all week. I had to skimp on my core exercises last night because I was tired and desparately wanted to get into bed before 8:30 so that I would hopefully have enough energy for my morning run.
Anyway, I was able to get out and do my 4 mile out and back this morning. I did notice that it was a bit on the windy side, but it was not too terrible. I think that I have a hard time writing anything interesting about these morning runs because it is so early and dark that it is hard to notice anything. When I turned on the TV when I got back, school closings were starting to show up even though there had not been a single snowflake yet. None of the public schools in our county closed this morning.
Work was pretty chaotic. The districts decided to close early, with the buses coming to pick up the students by 10:30. Around 10:15 I was getting ready to call J to tell him that I was planning to bag the hills and do an easy run as soon as I got home from work. As I was going through the phonebook on my cell phone it started to ring and it was J asking me where I was and to meet him at the track at 11:15 to do the workout.
I got myself out of school as quickly as I could to go home and change into running clothes and get over to the track. I thought that I had my workouts close together on Monday night, but this completely trumped that. The snow was coming down very steadily but not really sticking to the roads yet. I wore my new Gore pants and discovered that they need something under them by the way they ride up, it was not comfortable at all. We did four of the hill repeats, just like last week.
I finished the repeats a little bit slower than last week, but all things considered I was happy with the workout. I have been much more exhausted this week than last week. I was not even sure that I would be able to get a workout in today. This week I had less time in between runs before doing the hills. No matter what direction we were running, the snow was coming down in our faces. Something is most definitely better than nothing.
This was probably my last week of hills. I think that I will be racing the next two weekends. The thought of racing makes me nervous. The one race next weekend is one that I ran last year. I'm nervous that I won't do as well as I did last year even though I think that I am in better shape than I was at this time. The other race is longer and I have more confidence in how I'll be able to do in that race.
I am hoping for a snow day tomorrow so that I can get some much needed rest. Being able to sleep in and not have to worry about doing anything would be such a nice feeling.
Posted by Blondie at February 24, 2005 01:41 PM