02/22/11: Sucking Air

Ugh!!!

Today's run was anything but good.

There was a decent wind, but I picked a more protected route to avoid it.

Unfortunately, that route is one of the hilliest routes from my front door.

(All of them are hilly, as we live on the top of a hill....but I chose the route with the "slow, gradual, never ending, but a bullet in my head" hills.)

The wind chill was in the mid teens (F)...but I dressed for it.

Well...I dressed everything but my legs for it. My compression sleeves keep my calves plenty warm under my running tights, but from the bottom of my jacket to my knees was chilly today.

No wait, not chilly......

C.O.L.D.

Nearly numb.

In fact, at one time I had a weggie....and didn't know it. (giggle)

Now couple all of that with the guilt of not running this weekend at all, and the fact I've lost any and all "fitness" I had built up and worked so hard for last year.

Mentally and physically, today's run just wasn't in the cards to be good.

(ugh)

This weekend was equally a fail.

Saturday was a rest day, and then Sunday was a 6 mile "long" run. Well, it was supposed to be a long run. We were meeting the boys for breakfast at 8:30, and I just could not make myself get up at 5:30 or 6:00 on a Sunday morning. I just couldn't do it.

I didn't want to run right away after breakfast, for obvious reasons.....

....so we drove around town, doing some small errands, window shopping, etc. We happened upon a fun and twisted XBox game at one store, and spent $20.

We got home, and instead of grabbing our gym gear....we played the darned game for like 3 hours.

Then, the boys called and asked if we'd gone to lunch. We hadn't, so we met them for lunch.

And, I didn't want to run right after lunch, for obvious reasons.....

.....so they ended up coming to our place to play cards. Then we went to the Worm (Eat the Worm, a local tequila bar) for Danny's birthday.

I didn't want to run after leaving the Worm, for very obvious reasons......

.....so we went home and went to bed.


Long weekend run fail.


I stuck to my training plan like glue this spring/summer/fall......and by gawd, I'm going to start sticking to it again. If I want to hang out with people, eating horribly unhealthy food, and having a good time, I just need to get up early and get the run done first. That's all there is to it. No more excuses....no more saying that I'll start the official training "next week." I'm out of next weeks. As it is, the half marathon in May is going to hurt. :-)