why bother? hahahahaha!
seriously. ok, a quick peek into the inner workings of my short circuited brain.
I didn't eat much for dinner last night and woke up to run at 5:30 this morning. Mike has to be at work by 8:45 so I try to be home an hour before that so he can ride his bike to work. I've misplaced my ATM card so I had no way to buy Red Bull. I grabbed a gu, sucked it down with 2 swigs of water and took off for a 10 mile run. Now this was my recovery week where I fall back a few miles in anticipation of next weeks bump up. So, I'm on my run and I feel like I'm floating along watching myself. I think I hit the wall at 8 miles. What was THAT about? LOL! I got all cold, my legs felt like tree stumps. So I told myself, "you're at mile 24, only 2.2 to go, don't let anyone pass you, 8 minutes 2.2 times, you can do it." It's my usual pep talk when I start feeling winded and it works like a charm. Then I realized I can never quite get the 10 mile route right and I was looking at 11miles so I went for it.
So, I've got my power food ready for this week's workload. Salmon, smoke oysters (for the iodine = fights fatigue), 2 steaks, spinach, blackberries, red and yellow bell peppers...and lots of sleep! It goes without saying that I will be getting a case of Red Bull. Hopefully by the end of the week I will still be able to speak in intelligible sentences and I'll remember why I opened the refridgerator.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
2 comments:
YUM! Reading your power food list is making me hungry! (and I'm also feeling guilty about postponing my run until tomorrow, seeing how you plowed through your run today!)
I see you're keeping a log on runningahead - I'll have to see what I can set up - right now I'm just using an Excel spreadsheet that my coworker did up - suits my 3x/week habit so far (which I hope to ramp up after April). ;-)
yeah, running ahead is great! I'm not sure what you can see there...just my individual runs? If you want to see a better glimpse of what it keeps track of, I can send you a link to my log...it's a little more information than you get looking at the scripts here on my blog. all kinds of cool graphs, workouts, summaries...it's data crack fo sho. I really like that they have the scripts for my blog here...yahoo 360 couldn't do that for me.
and yeah, get that run in tomorrow, you'll feel great...you know that!
Post a Comment