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March 26, 2005
Bad Girl
I was a very bad girl this morning. On Monday night, J and I were discussing the long run for today. We discussed how far I should go, et cetera. The schedule called for going out the "back roads". I tried to call him on his cell yesterday afternoon for a few reasons. One of the reasons was to let him know that I would not be able to help with the kids this morning because I'm really trying to nip this sore throat in the bud. One of the other reasons was to let him know that nobody was going to run the back way, they all planned on doing the out and back course. Little did I know, the battery in his cell phone was dead, so he never got my message.
To make a long story short, we did the out and back course. I really do not care which way we go, but I am not allowed to run the back roads without someone else because every intersection looks the same and I end up completely lost. We had a good sized group doing the full course: A, M, J, K, and A. A believes in running by a constant heartrate, he surges down the hills but can barely get up a hill. M on the other hand, can surge up a hill like nobody's business. This made for an interesting run. If you put the two of them together, you would have one awesome runner. We made it out to the turnaround in about 57:30. A and M wanted to use the bathroom, but K, J, and I wanted to keep going. A knew that he was not going to be able to run up the hills with the rest of us, so he just ran in on his own. As far as I am concerned, it was still pretty chilly this morning. It was about 40 degrees out, so I had on tights, long sleeves, a short sleeve and gloves. I could not believe how many of the folks I was running with had on shorts. I didn't start to get warm until about the last 2 and a half miles, so I think that I made the right choice. Back to the run...we ran into J and M on their bikes on our way back. Of course, J had to say something that we were not running the route that we were supposed to do. J and K pulled away from me some going up the hill. I have gotten stronger on this hill, but today I was not quite at my strongest. They were considerate and slowed down just a tad at the top of the hill, so I could catch up. In the last two miles, we ran into J's older brother and he joined us. Pretty much all conversation stopped a little bit before this since we were going at a pretty good clip. I got back from the 16 miles in 1:51 and felt pretty strong, so I went back out to hit 2 hours. I got in just a little bit over 17 miles.
I went to the gym instead of helping coach. Standing out in the chill and dampness was not a good idea because I am fighting off a low grade sore throat. I did 35 minutes on the elliptical. The woman next to me is about the same age of my mother, but she wants to be younger. She has bleach blonde hair, wears blue eyeshadow, and lots of spandex. She is one of those kinds of women. Anyhow, she started to talk to me and somehow the fact that I had already run 17 miles came out. She could not believe that I was doing anything after that. After the elliptical I did 35 minutes on the stationary bike. I got to read some magazines and a trashy novel. After my cross training, I lifted again. My arms are going to be very sore tomorrow since I have not been lifting as much as I had been. I lift so little weight that taking a week off puts me back at square one.
I have to get going so that I can buy some last minute groceries for tomorrow night's dinner. I am ahead of where I am on most Saturday's since I have showered. Seriously, I can be so lazy after my Saturday morning marathon workouts, and not even drag myself into the shower until about 5:00. I'm going to have to make like a tree and leave...
Posted by Blondie at March 26, 2005 03:00 PM