A post from Monday
My keyboard/computer/monitor/everything technological is all fubared, so I couldn't post this on Monday, so just pretend it's Memorial Day, ok? Oh, and ignore the random caps and/or no caps bc my computer decides where to put them in regardless of what I type.
So today's training let me know how far I've come. I truly am getting better at this running thing, endurancewise anyway [i still look like a fool, i'm sure]. on my practice run today, i was able to run for longer than i ever have without stopping. my breathing was regular, and i didn't feel winded at all until about 1 1/2 miles. at that point, i got that stupid wind cramp, but i walked for about 2 minutes and then hit it again--this time without feeling winded or stopping until the run was over. i didn't feel sick at my stomach at the end, either. i'm really pumped because i didn't think i was getting any better. of course, this was the first evening run, and i am soooo much better at doing everything in the evening. i just can't do this morning crap. first of all, i hate breakfast and i hate getting up early, so getting up early to eat breakfast is not likely to happen. the problem is that i can't run on an empty stomach, but i can't run until i've digested for at least an hour, and i haven't figured out exactly what to eat for breakfast yet, either. everything kind of makes me sick, but running empty makes me sicker. tonight was great bc there was a 5 hour gap between eating and running. on top of that, did i mention that running at 6am just bites the big one?
and these people, these freaky running enthusiast people, are so damned perky. how in the hell can one be so perky at 6am? no one is meant to be perky at 6am. the other hard part of this early run thing is that i can't make myself go to sleep before midnight. if i try, i will be awake all night, so i usually end up running the long runs on 1-4 hours of sleep. that might get easier, though, because for the past 3 days, i've awakened at 650 spot on, and that just shouldn't happen. it does, though, and i can't go back to sleep. still, here it is at 10pm, and i feel like i could stay up til 2. ah well. tomorrow is speed and hill training, so i'll enjoy the triumphant feeling while it lasts. after sprinting and crawling up parking garage ramps, i am sure that i will feel like a failure tomorrow.
in other news, i finally scheduled a vacation, so i am headed to the Big Easy in 2 weeks. i still want to make a trip up to chitown and one somewhere else [dc, abq, co, or maybe san fran] before the summer ends. just buying the plane tickets for nola helped me overcome the burnout hump. for awhile there, i thought i wasn't going to make it. now when i feel the burnout pains coming on, i just think of the beignets, chicory coffee, and hurricanes i'm going to have in a few weeks. gets me through. hmmm, cranky running around the streets of nola by herself for the most part [gordie's going, but she'll be in a conference most of the time]--that's scary, but great fuel for blogging. finally, i might have something interesting to write about again.
So today's training let me know how far I've come. I truly am getting better at this running thing, endurancewise anyway [i still look like a fool, i'm sure]. on my practice run today, i was able to run for longer than i ever have without stopping. my breathing was regular, and i didn't feel winded at all until about 1 1/2 miles. at that point, i got that stupid wind cramp, but i walked for about 2 minutes and then hit it again--this time without feeling winded or stopping until the run was over. i didn't feel sick at my stomach at the end, either. i'm really pumped because i didn't think i was getting any better. of course, this was the first evening run, and i am soooo much better at doing everything in the evening. i just can't do this morning crap. first of all, i hate breakfast and i hate getting up early, so getting up early to eat breakfast is not likely to happen. the problem is that i can't run on an empty stomach, but i can't run until i've digested for at least an hour, and i haven't figured out exactly what to eat for breakfast yet, either. everything kind of makes me sick, but running empty makes me sicker. tonight was great bc there was a 5 hour gap between eating and running. on top of that, did i mention that running at 6am just bites the big one?
and these people, these freaky running enthusiast people, are so damned perky. how in the hell can one be so perky at 6am? no one is meant to be perky at 6am. the other hard part of this early run thing is that i can't make myself go to sleep before midnight. if i try, i will be awake all night, so i usually end up running the long runs on 1-4 hours of sleep. that might get easier, though, because for the past 3 days, i've awakened at 650 spot on, and that just shouldn't happen. it does, though, and i can't go back to sleep. still, here it is at 10pm, and i feel like i could stay up til 2. ah well. tomorrow is speed and hill training, so i'll enjoy the triumphant feeling while it lasts. after sprinting and crawling up parking garage ramps, i am sure that i will feel like a failure tomorrow.
in other news, i finally scheduled a vacation, so i am headed to the Big Easy in 2 weeks. i still want to make a trip up to chitown and one somewhere else [dc, abq, co, or maybe san fran] before the summer ends. just buying the plane tickets for nola helped me overcome the burnout hump. for awhile there, i thought i wasn't going to make it. now when i feel the burnout pains coming on, i just think of the beignets, chicory coffee, and hurricanes i'm going to have in a few weeks. gets me through. hmmm, cranky running around the streets of nola by herself for the most part [gordie's going, but she'll be in a conference most of the time]--that's scary, but great fuel for blogging. finally, i might have something interesting to write about again.
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