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July 21, 2005
Go (White) Sox!
I'm taking my Granddad to the White Sox game tonight, so I had to get the bulk of my training for the day in this morning. I'm really excited for the game: the White Sox are playing the Red Sox, who are leading the Yankees by just a half game in the AL East. Both my Granddad (who grew up on the South side of Chicago and is a life-long ChiSox fan) and I (being a life-long Yankees fan) will be pulling hard for Chicago. Buerle is pitching for Chicago and he tends to be extremely efficient so the game shouldn't (fingers crossed) turn into one of those 4-hr. American League dogs. Unless the ChiSox pound Clement (Boston's starter), which wouldn't be an entirely bad thing (I can't say that I'd ever object to Boston's suffering an ignominious shelling, although I vastly prefer pitchers' duels -- a late-inning 1-0 loss is certainly more heartbreaking than a 10-3 drubbing), the game should be over at a reasonable hour, so I might even be able to sneak in a morning run tomorrow.
I got home pretty late last night after dropping the family off at their hotel and then had trouble getting to sleep (ok, I'll admit that it was partially that I was stressing a bit over my training schedule for the next few days), so when the alarm went off I was very tempted to go back to sleep. But I was meeting G. for a run, so I didn't have that option (probably the BEST thing about having someone to run with in the mornings is that it takes away the option of going back to sleep). We ran for an hour, probably about 8 miles. Afterwards I lifted for the first time since last Wednesday. I find it so difficult to motivate myself to lift. It's not that I dislike lifting; in fact, when I'm doing it I kind of enjoy it. I think part of the problem is that I actually have to go to the gym to lift, and do it during the hours the gym is open. The other part of the problem is that while I KNOW on one level that lifting helps make me faster, on another level it's hard to see the results of lifting as the results of lifting -- I can't isolate them from the results of, say, running intervals, and the connection between running hard intervals and improvement is the more intuitive one to make.
I'm going to do another short run this evening before going to the game: just 4 miles or so on my way home from work. Since our dinner reservation for tomorrow night isn't until 8, I was thinking of trying to squeeze in my interval workout after work if it isn't too hot (or, if I by some miracle get home really early from the game, tomorrow morning). I'm concerned because I know I'm going to get home late tomorrow evening and I'm afraid I won't want to get up early enough Saturday morning to do the workout before it gets hot. Sigh. I miss being able to just run whenever and not have to plan my workouts around the heat. Can't wait for fall!
Posted by alweiss at July 21, 2005 02:53 PM
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That's really funny. I was just worrying about the winter and how I won't be able to run super early in the morning. Very dark and so cold my toes get numb... :) The ideal running season is just too short!!
Posted by: Audrey at July 21, 2005 05:55 PM
THIS HEAT SUCKS. I am an incredible wimp. I have suddenly decided to take this as a rest week and maybe just run 4 days . . . when is it going to end?
Posted by: bridget at July 21, 2005 07:31 PM
Audrey,
I know what you mean. I'm addicted to having seasons, but sometimes I wish they weren't quite so extreme.
Bridget,
Sounds like a smart idea. Wish I had thought of it. ;)
Posted by: alweiss at July 22, 2005 03:49 PM