Day 39: Let's Twist Again

First off, big thanks go out to Husband (even though he refuses to read LeBlog) for getting me some running gear for my birthday yesterday: Under Armour pants and shirt. The tags say to use in extremely warm weather, which we are most certainly having currently. I almost put the pants on to go to the store today because it is sultry out there. The pants are long and black, and, you know, look spandexy. I was worried until I checked the tag to make sure they were indeed for the heat. Now I'm just bloody curious. I can't wait to see how they work. They're also compression pants - Husband swears by his compression shorts. All I know is that it is not an attractive look on me. The shirt is also for heat, and is white, which seems to make a whole lot more sense - and has ventilation in the back. I will be testing them out tomorrow, at the earliest possible hour.

Speaking of tomorrow, it is supposed to be a 15 minute run, 5 minute walk. I can fairly confidently state that will not be achieved, unless there's spare lungs tucked away in that shirt somewhere. I then have my normal 2 days off, with a return to running Tuesday, another run 15, walk 5. Again, fairly certain that won't be achieved.

So, officially, tomorrow will decide what I do next. Whatever I run tomorrow is the day I will go back to in my training plan and tweak from there as appropriate. Then again, my ankle is feeling betterish today and with my new gear I will "protect this house," so maybe I'll hit 15 and just keep moving on.

Per usual, I did not walk the 10K route as hoped. First, and most importantly, I didn't feel my ankle was strong enough to hoof 6 miles. It doesn't seem that bad until I think about the fact I'm pretty sure I haven't ever walked 6 miles, and my ankle is currently bum! Also, it turned out to already be 86 degrees at 9am when I was going to set out. Ick. Some other day. Like October 2nd, the way things are looking.

At any rate, it took me nearly all day, but I finally got up the motivation to do my yoga. Today it was Seated Twist, the workout for the lungs. 'Cause I need it. It's a pretty easy one, and easy enough on the ankles, and maybe one day I'll be able to run more than 10 steps without being out of air.