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March 17, 2005
Spilled Coffee
You know that you are not going to have a very good day when the first thing that happens when you get into your office at work is that you spill your coffee all over your desk. I am lucky that my ghetto school does not give us computers (or even desk calendars for that matter), so nothing was ruined. A few pieces of paper were soaked, but they were all old news. It was just a great way to start my day off on the wrong foot. I can definitely tell that I need a vacation, which is coming soon. Next week is a four day week and then we have off the entire following week for spring break.
I snuck out of work about ten minutes early because I had to run down to the local American Cancer Society to pick up some daffodils that my school nurse had ordered for my mother. My supervisor had left at noon, so I left early. I can always rationalize it that, 1) it was sort of work related and 2) I am always ten minutes early for work. Mom wasn't home when I got here, so I put them in some water and then went down for my nap. When she got home, she thought they were from me, but I told her they were from the nurse. The nurse has never met my mother, but she really looks out for me and takes care of me. Her birthday is tomorrow and so I'm making a donation in her name to the local SPCA. This woman has four cats and two dogs at home and then feeds about 15 stray cats on the streets at work. She is also turning 70 and does not need anything at all.
Running tonight was much better than it has been for the past few days. I know that recovery does take time. I also realize that racing, not just running, a half marathon does take quite a bit out of me. Even having lots of longer runs in, running 13 miles at that fast of pace is quite traumatic to the body. Anyhow, tonight was supposed to be the last week of hills, but we only saw bad things happening if I tried to do hills tonight. I did the warm-up, then 8 of the straightaways that I did last week, but not nearly as fast. Then I did the warm down. I think it was about 8 miles total. My stomach was not agreeing with me, but other than that I was feeling a lot better. Last week I did the strides in 61-63 seconds, tonight was quite a bit easier, about 69-71 seconds.
Tomorrow is a much deserved day off from running. I have a haircut scheduled since my hair is out of control long. I can almost pull it back into a stubby ponytail. It just is not doing anything when I try to style it in the morning. I might also try to find out some more information about the half marathon on April 17. There is someone who really seems to want me to run it since he has mentioned it to me at least three times in the past three weeks. My brother is also coming home from DC tomorrow. I may have guilt-tripped him, but he has not been here since before New Year's and he should come back because I am taking all of the stress here.
Posted by Blondie at March 17, 2005 08:11 PM