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April 20, 2005
Signs to Take an Easy Day
The first sign is not sleeping at night. Given the summer-like weather, sleep without air conditioning has not been easy. Waking up at 2:30 sweating buckets does not make sleeping easy. A second sign is HOT weather when your body is not acclimated yet. Just not a good idea to run hard for the first few days of hot weather. A third sign is wind. Strange, hot and windy, not a usual combination. Fourth sign was legs just feeling beat up from the 25 miles accumlated in the past two days. For me, four signs was enough to know to just back off today. Also, Thursday night workouts have been suffering, so I did not want to do anything that would make it even worse.
Due to all of these factorsm, I really tried to just lay back and take it easy on my run this afternoon. I had hoped to maybe hook up with J and run someplace different today, but he had to go to his son's track meet. Darn kids... As I was coming up a hill, I thought that I saw K, who was my training partner for about two years. It did turn out to be her. We crossed the street together and ran about a mile and a half together until she had to turn off to go to her house. It was really nice to get to run with somebody for a while, especially when I really was not in too much of a mood to be running.
I got home, put on my racing flats, and did my striders. My legs felt really flat during the striders. Afterwards, I changed my clothes and went to the gym. I rode the bike for 35 minutes and was ready to get the heck out of dodge when some guy who has talked to me once or twice asked if I was doing Broad Street. I had to have a conversation with him. When he heard what I would like to do in that race, he determined that I should be tailgating in the parking lot by the time he is done! I wanted to get out so quickly because I had to go to the grocery store and I wanted to eat! I bought some ice and did an ice bath for as long as I could stay in the tub, about 8 minutes. So far, my legs do feel peppier, but we shall see tomorrow!
Posted by Blondie at April 20, 2005 08:10 PM