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June 02, 2005
The Important Things
Last night I had every intention of getting to bed early. I was even in my pjs with my teeth brushed and getting ready to get into bed when my mom needed help with some things on the Internet. I give her some credit, she is afraid that she will break the Internet if she clicks on the wrong thing. She did not even get her own e-mail account until a little bit over a year ago. It took a few weeks of coaching her through it before she even got comfortable checking it on her own. Anyhow, we ended up spending some quality time together instead of me getting into bed early. There are some things in life that are more important. Sleep is one of those, but spending time with someone who is important is even more important.
Today was a crazy day, especially given my semi-catatonic state. Work has become such a chore. I don't feel like doing anything anymore because whatever I do is not going to be right, we've been told straight-up that our opinions don't matter, so why should I do anything? Anyhow, I made it through the day and came home for a nice hour long nap.
While I was at work, I talked to J about tonight and some about summer training. Tonight, although going to the track, I was not to do the workout. For the some of the summer we are going to work on turnover. I'm going to do about half of what the workout is and absolutely blast through it to get my legspeed back. I've never had great legspeed, but it has greatly decreased. I'm not sure what that will mean as two of the early fall races that I have earmarked are a ten miler and a half marathon. He thinks that my longest runs over the summer should be 60-65 minutes. We'll have to have a more in-depth discussion about this pretty soon.
So tonight I went up to the track. I did the warm-up, way too fast. I got caught up with a few of the guys. Once we got onto the track, two of the guys said that they were going to draft off me. I know they were kidding, they said you draft off the strong one. I said, I'm not the strong one; I'm the young, dumb, blonde one. Why people choose to draft off me utterly confuses me, it isn't like I'm a big tall person to block the wind! When they started on the workout, I went back on the road with M and ran him home since he has a big bike race on Saturday. I came back to the track and ran two laps with J and C. We waited for everyone to finish their workouts and then did the warm-down. I think that I got just over 7 miles in for the night.
Overall I am feeling better, but I still feel a bit fatigued at times. This feeling should pass, but I don't want to overdo it and get myself so worn down that I can not recover. Again, the long term goals are more important than getting back to running big mileage weeks.
Posted by Blondie at June 2, 2005 08:10 PM