who am i? where have i been? why have i not been posting to my blog?
let me 'splain.
no, there is too much. let me sum up.
while i have been slacking on this blog, i haven't been slacking on training. since last i posted, i ran tuesday, thursday, friday, saturday and sunday. no big long runs, most in the 3-3.5 mile range. i seem to have gotten that down. in the run up (pun very much intended) to the 10K in april and bloomsday, i think i'm going to have to turn up the training. work in more hills, and next weekend run 5 miles.
today, julian and i ran up and down his street a couple times - ends up being about 2 miles, but he has a nice .25 mile of hill. it's hard, running up hill. i feel like i can run for miles on a relatively flat outdoor course - slight grades are fine. but hills are another thing altogether. when i'm running up hill, i feel like the ground is like the belt on a treadmill and i'm not making any forward progress. as long as i keep my eyes about 3' in front of me, and my feet moving, i just keep plugging away. eventually i'll get to the top. doesn't matter to me how long it takes.
things i've been thinking about while running this week...
butt itch while running sucks. all-consuming and distracting. once you feel it, that's it. it is all you can think about ITCH-ITCH-ITCH-ITCH. it is nigh onto impossible to give your butt a good and thorough scratching while running. you know when you properly scratch an itch... how you kind of go into that euphoric zen paralysis - when you *really* scratch that itch?? take my cat - when i scratch mookie's butt his eyes narrow, he cocks his head to one side and he starts frantically licking the air - i totally get this. itches anywhere on your body while you're running are annoying. but the butt itch is particularly annoying. and then there is the small issues of who wants to be going at their ass like a baboon while kindly folks are driving by - hey everyone, check it - my rear-end itches sumpin' fierce!!!
i feel small when i run. small and alone. not in a vulnerable way - in fact i don't feel very vulnerable at all. just small, tiny, within myself. it's just perspective. i'm this little dot moving about the earth... slowly... persistently...purposefully... there are people all around me, but i'm only aware of what is going on inside of me. i'm not verbalizing this well at all. it is a good feeling.
hope to be better about blogging this week...
5 comments:
Just a heads up that I may be walking it. My snippage just got scheduled for 4/21, so I have a little over 2 weeks to recover. Training will surely suffer. My boys will be needing a house, a really strong, snug house.
OUCH! i'm so glad i don't have nuts.
glad to see you back heather, i was starting to think you pulled a forrest gump on us, and just kept running.
Never felt the itch. But a couple of comments nonetheless...
Forget about the drivers by during training runs, and think about the runners behind you during Bloomsday.
And I don't even want to know about you scratching Mookie's ass. You could have kept that to yourself, thank you.
I feel you on the small thing, though.
clarification - i'm not scratching my cat's dot, just the area around his tail. got it? ew!
hey beaverfan! :-)
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