Monday, October 24, 2011

I run too much

I run too much, way too much, this can't be good for me! Yet no matter how long I run it is never quite long enough because there are races that last 24 hours, and probably ones that last 48 hours, 72 hours, 168 hours, 3 years. A lifetime. In fact why spend anytime not running at all?
That is hard to do when you have a job, and a cat that likes to bite holes through your thumb, but off topic, anyway, last week I had to spend a lot of time not running. First at work and also at watching other girls run, or talking about running and stuff at Girls on the Run where I am a coach. By the time I got to run it was only 5 but because it is October now that means that at the end of my two hour workout it is already getting pretty dark. I ran 4 times 3k at Cornwall park at goal pace of 12 minutes each but with 15 minutes of slow jogging between which is nice but also uses up lots of daylight. I did pretty well though running 11:58, 11:57, 12:05, and 12:17, finishing up while I could barely still see then hurrying home before the creepos in the park get even more creepy when the moon comes out.
That workout suprisingly left me tired, and kind of injured so I only had to run 3 and a 1/2 mile repeats on Saturday and only an hour an forty minutes on Sunday.
Feeling like the slacker I am I headed into another week. This time there was no injuries to save me and so I got to do 13 mile repeats. They started out not too bad in around 6:55- 7:00 even though my hamstring felt tighter than it should have. Then because I know am supposed to be in pain I started running 6:44 and then 6:35 and I sure was. Like cooling down is hard type of pain, like this hill in the parking lot where I am cooling down that probably goes up 2 feet a mile feels like a mountain type pain. 13 mile repeats plus warm up and cool down is a lot of miles. But not enough because I could have run later in the evening again but I had to work. I could have run after I got off work at 9 o clock and then again in the morning before work at 8 am (which I did), but only forty minutes so that means I have three hours and fifteen minutes left when I get off work.
I want to see sometime how fat these audiobooks are that I go through. I listened to the Hunger Games, as recommended to me by Jessica which says on the back that it has 11 hours of tracks but it only lasted five days. Good thing it is a trilogy I guess though it seemed annoying yesterday when I didn't have the second book. I mean I ran for 11 hours and I still don't get to find out what happens? Great, I'm going to have to run 11 more, then 11 more after that. Never mind that I am tired, or have to work, or am sore and have this tight hamstring that doesn't go away for three hours.  Never mind anything else, I have to run more. "I need to work you harder," Joel says the night of my four hour run when I'm lying on the floor too beat to want to get up even to take a shower.
I guess I don't run enough.

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