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March 03, 2005
Wind, Hills, and Making a Decision
Last night I just did not get myself into bed early enough. The wind was absolutely howling and I got sucked into watching Lost. Add in the fact that I have not had to drag myself out of bed at a few minutes till five to get out the door around five, this morning was quite difficult for me. I got myself out of bed and going earlier than usual though. I took advantage of the mailbox that I usually run by to drop off a pick-me-up card for my mom to surprise her. The howling wind from last night and yesterday was still blowing strong this morning. I think that all of us who live on the eastern part of the country were suffering from the wind yesterday, since both Beth and Jessie wrote about how windy it was yesterday!
As I said earlier, I just did not sleep enough last night, so when I got home from work, I took almost an hour nap. My mom made me feel guilty because I didn't get to call her from work today. When I woke up from my nap, she was fast asleep and purring on the couch (she purrs because she does not snore).
We had a small group tonight for the workout. Thursday night usually draws a bigger group than Monday does. I have not been at one of our evening workouts in a week and a half since the weather has been bad and I've gotten out earlier to get the workout done. This was our fifth week of hills. The schedule called for five hills tonight. After last Thursday when I could hardly get up and down the hills, I was a little bit apprehensive about tonight. What a differnce a week makes. Not only was I running the hills faster, I felt really strong. I could have easily done a sixth hill tonight. Anyhow, I did the 5 plus miles of hills in 36:30.
Earlier in this week, I made the decision not to race this weekend. I did this race last year and really enjoyed it. I ran a PR and won quite a bit of money in it. I wanted to do it again, but with the weather the way it has been I decided that I did not want to drive two hours and run a race in very possibly terrible conditions. I would rather race the half-marathon next weekend. I feel that my conditioning is more on track to run a good half instead of a good 5-miler. I am planning to run long on Saturday and then participate in a race on Sunday. Participate, as in jog. One of the high school kids who trains with us in the summer is putting it on as a fundraiser and I'm doing it to support him. I plan to do a short warm up and warm down and go out to breakfast with others and do it purely as a social event.
Posted by Blondie at March 3, 2005 08:08 PM