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October 15, 2006

Catch-up

I have been feeling icky for two weeks now. Austin has been hard on me as far as allergies are concerned. I'm nearly positive that's what it is. Since I'm still nursing I'm pretty limited as to which medicines I'm willing to take, and last night I used a saline spray thing to try to clear out my sinuses. Oh lordy. Talk about adding insult to injury.

My running hasn't suffered too much since there's not much of it to suffer! I did do a workout on Tuesday of this week and wondered if I was doing the right thing. I felt pretty run down still, and you know it can't have been good for me to be out there gasping in all that pollen and ragweed and ... whatnot. We have a 10-mile race coming up next weekend (on an unopened toll road of all things!) and I think having been under the weather will help reinforce that my plan is to just go out and run hard. No expectations, just start easy and see what my body's willing to do ...

So ... have you heard the one about the Austin marathon? Y'know ... that blazing-fast course that brought Meghan and Leilani out here two years ago? Other than last year, we (Andy and I) have run slightly different versions of the same course for seven years. Even last year wasn't too much different than previous years. They have really changed it for this upcoming event. Rather than running a downhill point-to-point, we'll be running a loop course. Lemme just say that people who come here to run our marathon will better understand that Austin is in HILL COUNTRY. I'll run whatever marathon they throw at me, but if I decide to run a marathon for time, I'll be heading to Houston.

And in other news ... I hurt MG's feelings for the first time today. It was a horrible, horrible feeling. When I'm holding her and she gets excited about something she'll bury her head in my shoulder and BITE. When she did it this afternoon I gave her a loud and stern "no." I usually say "ow!" but this was much more stern. She startled, then stared at me with confused eyes and eyebrows raised for a moment and then buried her head again in my shoulder, only this time with a definite sad face. She didn't cry; it was almost like she didn't understand the emotion she was feeling, but she knew it wasn't good. I felt a little sick to my stomach to have upset her like that. Here's to naively hoping it's the last time I make her feel like that.

Posted by jenandmats at October 15, 2006 8:45 PM