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August 22, 2005
Walking a Fine Line
Oh how I wish that I could be sitting here writing about how I had a great workout tonight. I tried to do everything in my power yesterday to make sure that it would happen, but there are some things in life that you just have no control over and one of them struck me today.
I guess that it all sort of started this morning. I had a follow-up appointment with the dermatologist which was scheduled for 11:15. I didn't even get called out of the waiting room until five minutes to twelve. It had gotten so late that I was about to ask the receptionists if they had forgotten about me. People who came in after me and said that their appointments were later had been called back but I was still sitting there waiting. Apparently even though this is a husband and wife practice other dermatologists do some kind of contract work, but the guy who I was seeing (the husband) was running really late. I'll say he was running really late! My diagnosis was right and we are tapering me off the drugs now. Then he basically told me that running in the woods for me is very dangerous because I am very allergic to the poison plants. Anyhow, this relates to walking the fine line with my run in that I didn't get to eat my lunch until much later than I wanted and my finicky stomach was not too happy about that.
I got up to the track and tried to do the warm-up really easy because I wanted to have a good workout. After having some really good runs for about a week, I wanted another good workout. I started my workout, 6 x 800 with a 400 jog, after J and I discussed what I should be doing. The first two felt great, I hit the times I wanted, I kept the jog quick, and then I started with the HF on the first lap of the third 800. We have all experienced the HF, the Heave Factor. I was only able to run fast enough to not puke my guts out. The rest of the workout was much slower than I wanted, but the jogs were still on the quicker side, not as quick as I would like, but not too bad. The warm down wasn't as bad, but I still felt a little bit pukey.
I have to keep things in perspective here. It is only the middle of August. This is really only the third week I've been doing workouts. Before this I hadn't been doing any thing resembling speedwork since April. My body is still all out of whack with the drugs I've been taking. I need a massage desparately, which I am getting tomorrow morning. The massage therapist definitely has her work cut out for her. This isn't making excuses to make myself feel better about having a crappy workout, shit happens. It is more or less my giving myself the reasons to not get upset and dwell on it. As I said before, shit happens and life goes on. Tomorrow is a new day.
So now that the flights are booked, which I should have done last week when I was really looking around since the cost went way up over the weekend, I'll let everyone know what race I am going to run this fall. I know that everyone has been holding their breath for the past, what, three weeks (just kidding). I'll be in Boston to run the Tufts 10K for women, so I think that I'll finally get to meet some of the Boston-area bloggers. I'll be there from Saturday through Monday evening. I've done this race before and would like to do better than I have in the past. We are starting to look at what kind of pace I should be doing to achieve the kind of time I would like to run. I don't feel like I am in the shape I need to be to run that time. The last time I was up there we all thought that I would easily run the time I was looking to run (and still am looking to run), but it was not in the cards that day. The fact that I got terribly lost on my run the day before did not help me and that I ended up walking another six miles or so the day before. OK, so now the cat's out of the bag.
Posted by Blondie at August 22, 2005 08:35 PM
Comments
Yeah!! Hmmm...not to steal your thunder (not that it's nearly as a big of a deal and I don't have to decide until much closer to race day b/c if I show up or don't no one cares but me!) i might do the race too. maybe. plus i live there so there are no travel issues :) anywho, how exciting!! so we might be competitors! i will be in the masses though so that might be annoying for me. we'll see. how fun. fyi, i will actually be out of town that thursday to sunday for a wedding, but we'll definitely work something out about mtg up. bye!
Posted by: Audrey at August 23, 2005 01:59 AM
Damn, I just wrote a comment and then my internet connection went down as I was posting it. I can't duplicate what I said the first time, but I'm psyched to hear that you are running Tufts and I hope I'll get to meet you!
I was recently looking at the results from the last time I did Tufts and I was surprised to see that you finished one place in front of me! Of course that was you having a very bad day and me running a PR!
You don't need to feel like the pace you need to run is attainable yet...I certainly don't. Here's to a great next six (or so) weeks of training! Good luck, and I hope today's massage makes you feel better!
Posted by: Alison at August 23, 2005 09:25 AM
That is awesome! Good luck, way in advance. I hope it goes well. It is such an awesome race. You do have plenty of time to get ready, and now that your skin issues are getting better hopefully that will help.
Posted by: Barb at August 23, 2005 04:38 PM