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April 03, 2005
Spring Ahead
I hope that everyone remembered to set their clocks ahead by an hour last night! When I got home, I remembered to set the most important clock, my alarm clock, but not my watches. My cell phone resets itself, I did my car this afternoon, and this morning I did my running watch. Tonight I need to move my dress watch an hour forwards and then I'll be done. Springing ahead has its advantages, like not having to rush to run before it starts to get dark. On the other hand, when I get up for my morning run tomorrow, it will feel like 3:50 instead of 4:50. I'll just have to bite the bullet and get used to it.
Most of the heavy rain from yesterday is done. There have been a few sprinkles today, but compared to yesterday, it was nothing. I think I heard them say on the news that we set a record for the most rain in a 24-hour period yesterday. The flood watches are still up because the rivers and creeks won't really crest until sometime tomorrow morning. It was much colder and windier than yesterday morning, although in the afternoon yesterday it did get very windy.
This morning was a pretty pathetic 7 miler on my usual course. I missed my course because I have not run it since last Wednesday. There are two possible reasons for the patheticness of this morning's run. The first is that I pretty much sat and laid around all day yesterday instead of moving around. I think that if I had been moving around my legs would not have felt nearly as tight as they did. The other reason is that I ate a really pathetic dinner at the function I went to with my friend. I had to ask for a meatless plate, which they made specially for me. I didn't want to complain about my new plate, in which all of the vegetables were covered in butter. I like my veggies to taste like veggies, not butter. I ended up picking at the ones that seemed the least smothered and ate the rice, but that was about it. This morning I tried to eat a more protein rich meal than usual to aid in recovery, but I know that getting back on my schedule tomorrow will be a great help. I have also been a slacker on water. When I am at work, I do not go anywhere without my water bottle, but at home I tend to forget. I also have a tendency to drink too much coffee when I'm at home. They say that admitting you have a problem is the first step in recovery, so I have a problem about not drinking enough water at home.
Posted by Blondie at April 3, 2005 05:34 PM
Comments
Hey Blondie! Thanks for the message you left me. I've been catching up on your blog (still in November though!) and I was going to write to you too and see if you shared my same troublesome stomach problem (kuz it sounded like you did!) I feel it's a day by day thing, learning what "he" (it's too annoying to be a "she"!) likes and doesn't, etc. I'm trying to be "good to him" to see if in exchange he can be good to me too! (I have to say over the past month I have been worst than him so I'm giving it a break!)
Posted by: Nanda at April 4, 2005 11:49 AM