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August 12, 2005
Good Day to Not Run
Today was a great day to take off from running. I like to think that the weather gods know what days that I am not running and then make those days the most oppressive of whatever season we are in. Maybe I am delusional, but it seems that the hottest/windiest/iciest/rainiest days are Fridays when I don't run. Case in point; today. It is terribly hot and humid. OK, as if it has not been all summer, but it seems so much worse on the days I don't run. As I write, the heat index is something like 103, ugh!! Tomorrow is supposed to be even worse, but at least I'll run super early in the morning.
So, after last night's drink-fest (blogging while intoxicated can be fun), I didn't sleep all that well. I got up and decided to go to the gym. I hadn't been to yoga in a week and a half since last Friday when I would go I was at the doctor's office and on Sunday when I would go I was off shopping two hours away. I did the elliptical for an hour. I half-read a magazine and sort of watched the Today show. All of the cardio equipment at the gym has these ports that you can plug headphones into to listen to the TVs that are overhead, but I don't have any headphones so I got stuck trying to read the closed captioning. This also means that I can't crosstrain too hard because it takes a great deal of effort to read while on the elliptical. For once my feet weren't burning up on the pedals and I didn't have the urge to get off after just a few minutes. I probably could have gone longer, but I had to get to the yoga class.
I was T-I-G-H-T today. Guess that's what happens when you don't stretch well after doing a workout. I can touch my toes on a good day, but today I wasn't even close. As the class went on I did loosen up some, but still was not getting close to my toes. I may be able to do it now, I think that I'll stretch some more before I go to bed. It was freezing in the room today. It didn't help that I was soaked with sweat from the time I did the elliptical. By the end of the class my hands and feet were ice cubes.
Since I have had a tough week of running I thought that I should maybe try to revitalize my body with an ice bath today. Of course, I did not buy any ice and tried to use what the ice maker in the freezer had in it (not much). I got in the water and added the ice that was in the freezer and sat there for a few minutes, but it really was not all that cold. Can I say that it is the thought that counts?
Now I know that I have been frustrated that I have not been racing as fast as I would like, but what I read today kind of hurt. I read the weekly running article from the race that I ran on Sunday. The author said that I was the winning woman with my time being slow (OK, he did say for an "elite" runner, something I have a hard time considering myself). Still, I did not want to read that about myself. The times were slow because of the weather and I was not really supposed to be running (he did mention that too).
I had to run into the grocery store today to buy something to make lunch and there were so many old folks there. I've noticed this before, especially in this store, but why do they always get a cart? The express line ends up so long because there are all of these people in it with carts. The man in front of me had two jars of spaghetti sauce, an ear of corn, and a pint of strawberries-in a cart. The woman in front of him had two cartons of oatmeal, two boxes of graham crackers, and a few cans of cat food in-you guessed it-a cart! They could easily use a basket. It isn't like the items they are getting are all that heavy to carry.
Well, I'm hungry, have been all day, so I'm going to make some dinner now. And drink more water. I'm going to be up peeing all night!!
Posted by Blondie at August 12, 2005 05:37 PM