Time keeeps on slippin'

Funny that - how I seem to merely look up and bam - 2 weeks have gone by.  I'll try to pick up where I left off last time, to the best of my abilities with the caveat that this last couple of weeks has been an insane jumble.


Thursday - I'm not sure what on earth I did, to be honest
Friday - my night run was out, and I was going to do a Saturday morning run, instead (we had a cool front arriving and it was SO freaking muggy I wasn't going to mess with Friday night)
Saturday - my mom was very sick and requested that I be on call to help her.  I was tending to sick folks all weekend. (granny wasn't feeling good either)

Sunday - Tuesday - *I* was sick.  Sinus infection of death, and it was raining the entire time, super humid and 100% conducive to me not feeling worth a damn.  I'm not sure I'd have run in this crap even if I *wasn't* sick.  However, by Wednesday, I was completely stir crazy and willing to try a workout again.

Wednesday -  I went back out on the trails for a brief run.  Today I'd do just barely over 5k, as I was still on antibiotics and this was pushing it a bit.  It was muggy, but I still enjoyed this very muddy run.  This was also a good opportunity to scout out some of the areas of trail I hadn't seen since the flooding - I'm still in awe.  there are parts just past shan's where there is grass from the flooding deposited 8 feet high in the trees.  Wow.   I felt mostly great on this run, especially for not having run in so long, but my stomach was a little angry about 1 mile in.  After that remedied itself (and I'm sure it was the antibiotics) I felt great.

Thursday -  A couple of friends invited me to workout, and then when I got there I realized it was a GROUP workout with Tejas.  It was fun, but hard.  The trails were muuuuuuddddddy and this was the most technical and HILLY route I had done in ...well months.  We also had a big, nasty hill at the end we had to do at least 2 repeats on and then come back in.  (and coming back in had more uphills than going out)  At first I thought I was only going to be able to do 1 hill repeat, but I caught my breath and made myself do another - and I'm glad that I did.  I felt amazingly well coming back in, and even picked up my pace quite a bit in spots.  Afterward we all met at Craig O's for beer & food.  It was nice to see everyone again.

Friday - I was so sore from Thursday workouts on Friday morning, that I could barely walk.  BUT - it was Dawn's birthday run night, and she and Elizabeth and I had been talking about this and I knew that Dawn was REALLY looking forward to it.  So, I toughed up and made myself do this run, even though I did not want to.  I was even going to move the workout off of the trail because we'd had MORE fucking rain (hear me? FUCK YOU, RAIN! ..yes, YOU!!)- but it had cooled off and I merely changed our route idea.  I gave a choice of routes, and Dawn really had Shan's at heart - she looves Shan's loop repeats - and really, I do too.  We had ALL done hill workouts the day before, and I can't say I've ever done them two days in a row, but this was what she wanted for her birthday - "run to Shan's and do repeats until we get tired"  It's about 1.6 miles to Shan's and then we did uh....I think we did 3 repeats of shan's, then came home.  To be honest, my GPS was being fussy at first, so I just said screw it and ran with it off, but I think we did 5-6 miles. (and a good 3 miles of it was nothing but up and down hills over and over)  I started out this run VERY un-inspired, but once I got warmed up, I felt GREAT.  Suspiciously great, even, especially considering that outrageous humidity ( it was about 94%).  I felt SO SO good during this run, and had a GREAT run. yaaay!

Saturday - off day!!

Sunday - I had a rather uninspired 5k that morning, and tacos.   This wasn't a great run, or a horrible run. I had no goals other than easy pace

Monday - off again for no particular reason really

Tuesday - FANTASTIC night run - 6.5 miles on the greenbelt.  first half I did easy, the last half I pushed HARD coming back in.  It was an amazing run, one of my favorite routes that includes shan's and then takes you over to the power line & back.

Wednesday - What a wierd day.  I was supposed to do a street run - except nobody wanted to come with me, and normally this isn't a big deal but tonight I just did NOT want to run alone when the time came later. (which is odd considering that I run alone about 90% of the time now) So, I thought I'd just do a yoga workout later instead.  I honestly tried to do this yoga workout - but I didn't get more than 15 minutes into it before I was just do distracted, un-inspired and un-interested that I just said "screw it."  I'm not sure why - but today just did NOT feel right doing any kind of workout - strange.  I decided to let it be, and have a better day Thursday.