Interesting Week

This week was truncated somewhat - part of that by my laziness, and part of it by tropical storm Hermine.

Tuesday - Yoga in the morning.  In the afternoon,  I went for a fantastic run in the rain ran really strong, but the water was so high and the trails were in such bad shape that we didn't get to do our planned route.   I did this in fast intervals, where we would then catch up, as we ended up doing a no-drop style run.  It was a lot of fun!

Wednesday - the trails were flooded and it was generally storming like hell and I didn't do yoga or any indoor workouts, which I should have.  Super shame on me.

Thursday- I did the most miserable, suffering, humid, slow just GOD AWFUL workout.  It felt like I had concrete feet and was breathing in glue.  However, I got through it and felt pretty darn good afterward!

Friday - originally, I had a long run planned for this evening on the trails, but - the route we normally use was impossible to use - flooded and to be honest a lot of the trails I had seen on Thursday down on the super highway were torn to hell by the flooding.  There are volumes I hadn't seen that I knew were probably also affected, and it's not a good time to go scouting that out for the first time at night with just lamps.  Also, long distance in that kinda mud is just....awful.  So - I decided we'd do 6 miles-ish on the street.  If I felt like I migt be able to keep going, I would go another loop, but - the street tore me UP the last time I ran just two measly 5 milers in a row on it - I mean like ow.

I felt great during this run with Elizabeth and Dawn - they are faster than I am, but I didn't trail too far behind them.  I did start to have a pretty ugly blood sugar crash near the end, but that was my fault for not fueling and I managed to catch it early and bounce back fast after some energy chews.  We did just over 6.5 miles in 1hr 15 mins.  Honestly, I felt pretty good and I even argued with myself that I might need to go back out, but I also knew that I had run that first 6.5 WAY faster than I would have if I knew I were going to do 2 loops of it, so I decided to be happy with the intensity that I brought to this workout for me speed-wise.

I am SO glad that I stopped there.   I was going to run Saturday, but my right knee was so SO in pain - I mean it was royally screwed.  OUCH.  I did not feel a thing during or just after my street run the evening before, but for the first half of the day, my knee was feeling badly.  It seemed to finally feel okay - but what also helped is when I finally finished work on Saturday and could just sit down for a while.

Sunday - I was supposed to run in the morning, but I'd gotten only about 2 hours of sleep, and had clients booked on Sunday - so I skipped Sunday workout so I could sleep a couple more hours.  Not happy I had to do it, but it was necessary if I was going to work.  I got my work done, was too tired to mess with workouts so I decided embrace a lazy Sunday.

Kinda disappointed in how little I really ended up running and working out this last week.  This week, I aim for that to be very different.