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September 25, 2005
Adding Troubles
It isn't that I am bad at math, I'm actually not at all scared off by numbers, it has to do more with the fact that doing more than one thing at a time can cause inaccuracies. For example, I really can't keep track of pace while I'm running, I do much better knowing the checkpoints ahead of time, unless I'm running nice even minute miles. Today, while I was running, I tried to add up my weekly mileage. I somehow came up with that I had already run 61.5 miles for the week, which meant I would have to run 4.5 in the afternoon to hit 65. Um, OK, after I got done, I realized that I only needed 3.5 to get to 65 because my mind forgot to carry the decimals while I was running. That just means that I ended up with one more mile than planned for the week, but much worse things have happened.
I got off to quite a slow start this morning. My body took longer to wake up than I would have liked. Even once I got out the door, I still felt like my body was asleep. I had a pleasant diversion not even half a mile into my run when I ended up stopping to talk to K and H. Just standing there talking, being upright, helped my body to wake up some. I guess that it had to do with the blood flowing in a vertical direction as opposed to a horizontal direction that helped. It was a fall-like morning, cooler than it has been, but the humidity was still a tad on the high side, but I'm not going to complain after the summer we all suffered through. I just ran nice and easy, relaxed this morning to shake yesterday out of my legs. I wasn't wearing my watch, but I'm pretty sure that by the end I was moving at a pretty good clip.
During the day I watched the Eagles game. They managed to pull it off, but it was not pretty.
After the game I went over to a park that I really don't care to run in that much. The park is kind of small and the grass is really rutty which makes it easy to turn ankles. The only reason I chose to run there is that it is flat and I get bored there, so I couldn't run that long. I probably wasn't supposed to do a second run today, but I didn't feel bad, so I went for it. I managed to not turn my right ankle today, so that was an accomplishment. I ended up running pretty fast, but not intentionally. I finished my loop in just over 34, it was about 36:30 when I got back to the parking lot, so I ran for another minute so that I could call it a five mile run. I know that it was well over 4.5 and I was moving pretty well, so I can justify it. I think that I ended up with 66 miles this week.
Hope that everyone had a good weekend!
Posted by Blondie at September 25, 2005 06:50 PM
Comments
Hey Blondie, I too make those same adding mistakes when I am adding up my mileage in my head. It is horrible. I am always surprised afterwards but realize it is relatively harmless. The run in the park sounds nice - flat! :) Hope you have a good start to the week.
Posted by: mary at September 25, 2005 07:47 PM
Hi Blondie,
Don't you think your adding just goes with your name...Blondie??? ha I'm blonde too and have gotten used to the jokes. I really like reading your blogs!
I'm just impressed with your mileage. Mine is about 1/2 that amount. I would love to be able to get to 50+, but that's about impossible as a mom of 2 girls.
Posted by: Luann at September 26, 2005 03:40 PM