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March 30, 2006
Wind Sucks
Today would have been perfect except for the wind. The track where we do our workouts always has wind on it, even on the calmest of days. It also seems to sit just so that you can have the wind for more than half of the track, although that doesn't logically make sense. Common sense would dictate that if you are running around an oval that it would be split evenly-half with a headwind and half with a tailwind. Tonight the headwind started a third of the way through the curve at the top of the track and continued all the way through the end of the curve at the bottom of the track. In all, we had a headwind for about 275 meters.
Doing workouts in the wind always brings out the worst in me as well, so I end up in a really bad mood. Part of it is that although I try to forget about the time, it gets to me that I have to work so much harder just to try to get close to the target pace. It also bothers me that I am always the one to do the work of running into the wind. The one guy who I seem to train with a lot always just sits on my shoulder and lets me do the work. He does this no matter what the conditions are, but he never offers to help with the pacesetting. I am by no means a big person and I get very beat up by running into the wind. Basically, I just get to be really bitchy when we have really windy workouts.
The schedule called for one of my favorites tonight, so this upset me even more. The workout was 2000-1600-1200-800-400 with 400 jogs. The target pace was 90 seconds a quarter, which I should be able to do even on a not so great day. Halfway through the 1600 I was spent from running into the wind. The 1200 was terrible. At this point, M graciously offered to lead for me. She had heard how frustrated I was with the situation and said she would do some work for me. Half of the workout was right on pace, half of it was off.
My run this morning was better than usual, so that may have been a factor in tonight. My Thursdays have not been good for a few weeks and I need to figure out what the problem is. I'm pretty sure that part of it is not getting enough sleep. I keep getting sucked into pretty lame TV shows. Last night, I should have gone to bed immediately after Lost, yet I stayed up and watched The Evidence, which isn't even that good. I know that I need to get a massage, which I will schedule tomorrow. I also need to shake whatever has been ailing me for the past month. It is really low grade, but it is still there.
OK, time to get myself in a better mood, the weekend is coming.
Posted by Blondie at March 30, 2006 08:28 PM