Friday, December 21, 2012

Oklahoma City Half Marathon Training #2

Day 3

2 miler.  The fact that I had the stomach flu all of the previous day was something that worried me a ton when thinking whether or not I was going to go.  I did go and just told myself that all would be ok.  Just one foot in front of the other.  It took me until 3pm to convince myself to go.  I did go, I did make it.  I followed it up with a 2 hour nap.  Lord I still felt like shit.

Day 4

Feeling tons better today!  However, the ice/snow storm came in Wednesday night and I was very reluctant to wake up and go for 3 miles.  Turns out this was a smart decision because no ice melt efforts had been made on the side streets.  I was really sliding around taking the 4 year old to care and back to work.  However the day broke sunny and warm and all but the darkest shaded areas had shunned their ice by the evening.  I was going to get the little guy and the trailer and get that run in after work.  Well unfortunately he had one of his off days and I just had to ensure that he didn't have any fun for his lack of listening at school.  It wasn't until 9:30pm, after dinner settled, and Joe Dirt rolling credits that I was able to get my butt out there.  Did it.  Felt so much better than yesterday.  Still don't feel like I'm doing anything but running.  When I got home my watched revealed I had popped off a fast one.  Like a minute off my fastest pace so far.  As I was stretching I saw something odd in the glow of my headlamp, my knees were steaming!  Started my stretching outside and continued inside while showering.  I touched my toes while stretching for the first time in my adult life!

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