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December 12, 2005
Getting Old
Even in my younger days, I never really stayed up late or stayed out late all that often. Every once in a while, yes, but for the most part, no. My roommate in college and I were both in bed by 10:00 most nights, probably among the few college students who did that on a regular basis. Staying out late usually would force me to sleep in the next day, but that was all that ever really came of it.
My, how things have changed. Saturday night was our track Christmas party. Most years I am home from this party by midnight. Imagine my surprise when I got in my car and saw that it was nearly 2 AM when I left! As I have gotten older, when I stay out late like that, I tend to wake up earlier because I know that I am just going to mess up my system even more by waking up late. I was up between 7:15 and 7:30 and just felt like I had been run over by a Mack truck. Now I had been up since 6 that morning, to a baby shower, and then on my feet all night-but late nights never used to affect me so much.
Yesterday was another planned day off, but the thought of running had been sneaking into the back of my mind. I did not give in and run. In fact, I'm ashamed to admit this, I never even made it outside the house at all yesterday. Taking all of these days off is difficult, but they do serve their puprose. This week is still another low key week, but now my mind is getting back to wanting to run and coming up with goals.
This evening we did one of our loops around the river. We had a really small group, only five of us. The path that leads down to the river is a very steep downhill that is never out in the sun, so it was very icy. There were a few other areas along the loop that are never in the sun, so they were icy as well. All of that ice and being dark did not make for a very easy run. I did wear my headlamp, so I looked like a big dork. It didn't help very much because the battery in it is dying. By the end of the run it was nearly dead and only being a pain by adding extra weight on my head.
Speaking of batteries dying...the battery for the remote key to my car seems to have died. It didn't work for a little bit on Saturday, but I attributed that to it being out in the cold for so long. It started to work after it warmed back up, so I decided that it must be close to dying. It worked during the day today, but when I left the track it only opened the passenger door and then didn't unlock the rest of the locks. When I got home it didn't lock the car. Now I have to figure out how to reset it. Audrey, have you had to do this?
Posted by Blondie at December 12, 2005 07:55 PM
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Hey...i am just seeing this now :) Bloglines wasn't updating your blog for some reason (it sometimes does that for different blogs. it's really annoying).
anyway, nope, never happened to me. but the interior of my car is peeling due to extreme heat. has that happened to you?
and re: the sock comment on my blog, thanks!! my ankles willl thank you.
Posted by: Audrey at December 13, 2005 09:13 PM