Day 5, or the day of facing a lot of reasons why I don't want to run.
1. It's Saturday, there's going to be a lot more people, dogs, and kids (purposely listed separate from people) out and about today. I woke up at 7, thinking maybe I could get this over with before too much activity started.
2. It's Saturday (not that it matters much to me these days), and so I woke up again at 11. So much for beating the neighborhood awake.
3. It's not raining, but it's a whole lot colder than it's been for awhile..
4. I got it, we'll go to the gym. I can run on the cushioned track, no dogs, and no cold wind. After several miscommunications, it's now 3:30pm and I still haven't run. I have to get into a better routine.
OK, so I still have a lot of hurdles to getting into doing this everyday. It doesn't change the fact that I still want to do it. It's Day 5, and I'm adding a minute to the run today. This is my first add, unless you count that I didn't complete the 2 minutes Day 1, but did on Day 3. Whatever, today is walk 5 minutes, run 3, walk 5.
I bust out my cold weather clothes (boo), pack a Kleenex in my pocket (something tells me this is going to be one of those gross days that make running as unappealing as possible), preset my phone alarms, and do my stretches.
I'm going to attempt going down the busier road today. I think if I start off going that way, I'll be mostly walking through the rough part, and can start running when I feel safer turning off of it. Plus, there's going to be people everywhere today, so it simply won't matter.
Off I go. Pit bull, check, Meth Head, check. Busy road, people everywhere, check. Something different today: fabric softener filling the air. :)
As I was walking, I was a little worried about my ankle - it feels a little wobbly. Yep, I start running and the first couple of steps made my ankle crack. I think (hope) that was all it needed to do, because it felt better afterwards. I stayed on the busy road about a block longer than I had planned in my head, because it was pretty empty, the sidewalk was nice and clear, and I wasn't sure what I'd encounter when I veered off. But I was running straight into the wind, and I already felt like I had taken off too fast. I kept trying to slow myself down, because three minutes seemed like it was going to be a struggle. I was, however, managing some really deep yoga breaths. That surprised me, but it didn't last long.
When I finally did turn off, I ran straight into a lawnmower, and here come the allergies. Well, trying not to sneeze does take one's mind off of how much longer they have to run. The sidewalk ends, and several more dogs are barking their heads off. I really fail to see the appeal of running through neighborhoods. The alarm! Yay! I'm walking!
I got a wee further away from home than planned, so I walked about 6 or 7 minutes to get home, and, ew one Kleenex is not enough. Please let it warm up again quick, This. Is Nasty. And my ears hurt, so bad, like a solid frostbite. The pain was absurd.
Then, to add insult to freezing cold injury, today was the first day I broke out my ice pack. My left knee, which was already a wee bad, but improved from riding the exercise bike, seems to be bearing the brunt of the force of slamming down into the concrete on these trips. It's not been bad, but it was hurting pretty quickly after I got home, so I put the ice on it. I put it on my right knee, too, just for good measure, then back to the left...slightly worried about this.
Overall, I didn't mind the route today. I may do it at least one more time (before my run time increases again), just to see if I make it any further. I'd like to be able to track my progress against distance, but since the time changes every couple of days, maybe I'll just keep running willy nilly around town until I'm actually running several miles at a time anyway.
It may just be me (or the very shortness of the runs so far), but I don't have too much time to dwell on the time I'm out there, when each intersection poses a does-this-go-through-does-it-look-too-scary-does-the-path-look-too-broken-up-are-there-dogs-are-there-meth-heads series of questions to answer. Wait, is that the appeal to running through neighborhoods?
The next two days are rest days, so I'll probably be doing some yoga and ballet workouts, which I may or may not post about. I will definitely be back on Tuesday to record my attempt to run through forecasted scattered thunderstorms.
Time: 3:30pm
Temp: 55 degrees, 15-25mph wind, 46% humidity, cloudy
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