It's Saturday, so I overslept. Argh. This officially ends here. It's too blazing hot to put off my runs.
My knee felt pretty good, so I felt safe in trying for the Walk 5, Run 10, Walk 5 today. I set off on my newly extended route, and immediately hit a brick wall. A brick wall that was flying in my face. Seriously. Our neighbors are knocking down their little brick shed and the guy was just swinging the sledgehammer when I came around the corner of our garage. I squeezed past his truck that was blocking the alley and set off again.
My right ankle felt a little tweaked, like maybe it needed to crack, but I kept on. Man, it was so hot today - if there wasn't a breeze I don't think I would've attempted this. I so wisely had half a Dew, a drink of water, and a protein bar before I left. I hate running in the morning. I think I may schedule my own 10K, which runs at 8pm.
Oh! Big news! I got new ear buds! I hated to spend the money, especially when I have all of 2 songs on my mp3, but I really do expend a lot of energy trying to keep the buds in my ears when I'm running. So I got some other cheapies, but that hook over my ear! Yay! (As it turned out, I think that gave me a nice distraction that I needed today and didn't have.)
It was seriously unbearably hot. And I was stuffy. So there was no breathing properly. I was winded immediately after starting running. For some reason today every chance I got, I managed to turn my ankle. I also finally got to do The Super Douche: You know, when the runner runs in place while waiting for traffic? Yep, I had nicely avoided that little move until today when I had to do it 4 or 5 times. I was very concerned about being able to finish today, but I kept telling myself how lucky I was that I got to do this, that I love it, and focused on my feet hitting the ground properly, raising my feet up, swinging my arms. I was hoping paying attention to my form would help my knee.
Ugh. Something was up ahead at the end of my street, where I turn around. A lot of people and commotion. We are having a festival this weekend and there was a 5K this morning. Please tell me that's not the finish line. Because surely I am not on the right route, and it's like an hour and a half after it started, and I really don't want to come panting up to the finish line. There were people everywhere. The main street was blocked off, so I wasn't sure I was going to be able to get to my turnaround point. As I got closer, I saw that I would be able to turn around and none of the people seemed to have their attention focused my way, so I was just gonna go for it. I had considered turning off, but I was pretty sure where my finish line would be on my regular loop and I really needed that today. (Turns out it was an art show at the end of the street.)
So I pulled The Super Douche again, and headed for home. I was absolutely dying. I was actually getting cold when the breeze would hit me, then immediately swelter when it died down. Miserable. I really didn't think I was going to make it. I checked the time, finally, and had less than two minutes. OK, only two minutes, you can do this. I was pretty sure I would finish at the end of the next block. I checked the time again and it was still in the 8th minute. Ugh! Come on! You made it 12 minutes last time! I absolutely had nothing left and I stopped, hands on knees. I checked the time and it just clicked over to 9 minutes. Son of a Drunk.
I pulled myself together and headed for home, tail between my legs. I have no idea what to do with my schedule now. Walk 5, Run 9, Walk 5 is what my schedule was last Saturday - do I want to repeat the whole week? I actually have a run day on Monday this week (usually I get two days rest after Saturday), and it's Walk 5, Run 11, Walk 5. Geesh. I really don't have time before the 10K to repeat a whole week (that was actually what I was trying to use to motivate myself when I was about to quit my run before I even got to the turnaround). Monday and Tuesday are both Run 11s - Maybe I try to run 10 on Monday, then run 11 on Tuesday? But Thursday brings a run 13! I would love opinions of those reading. I'm gonna open the comments up so anyone can post a comment, just for a couple days (leaving it open welcomes spam). Or email or facebook me. My thought right now is just to go balls to the wall on Monday and see if I can hit 11 minutes. If I can, we'll pretend today didn't happen. If I can't, I will be re-posting a paragraph quite similar to this one.
OK, back to my sad walk of shame home. There was a hellacious amount of noise coming down the road at me. I looked up (because, I was looking at my feet like someone had just beaten me), and I thought an old-timey car was coming, blaring it's annoying 1930s era horn. I thought I heard dogs barking, which would make sense, I was considering barking at this noisiness. Turns out it was like a mini-trolley/train, just loaded down with festival attendees. Thank Fortuna I had stopped running, because they would have seen the saddest, pantingist mess ever as they passed me. I dare say they would've heard me panting over the horn, which was making ALL that noise. (The dog barking sound was the chugga chugga of a train.) Ah. So the road being blocked off with RR crossing signs made slightly more sense now.
I turned up the alley to go home and my neighbor, who is 112 years old, was trying to make the tight turn to back his car into his garage. I thought he would let me get by him, because this was going to take a few attempts. Oh, no. I was all up in the yard and he was still trying to hit me. Could I seriously have had more opportunities for injury today?!
I was actually still a little winded when I got home, but that may've been from running around the neighbor. I grabbed the ice pack and applied directly to my ankles, which are killing me. My knee, not too bad, but still iced. My ankles, not happy with me at all.
I did not remotely enjoy updating my stats, as I sucked it hard today. Very disappointing. We're going to see the A-Team tonight, where I hear Bradley Cooper's abs make an appearance. Perhaps that will help ease the pain. I mean, be an inspiration to keep working out.
Weather: 83, Partly Cloudy, Wind 14mph, 79% Humidity, New! Heat Index 91
Time: 10:30am; Walk 5, Run 9, Walk 6
Distance: 2.23K (1.38m)
Elevation: +28.3/-29.2/net -.8 ft
5K/10K: 47:51/1:41:08 (worst since Day 22)
Run Time: 9 mins
Distance: 1.21K (.75m)
5K/10K: 41:40/1:28:05
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