Snow gone, weekend fun, morning run

by - Monday, February 25, 2008

Most of the snow has finally melted, but it's still freezing and not spring. Soon enough though.

This weekend was great. I was at home for my graduation party. My friends from CP came up and my mom made some delicious food. We ate lots of yummy food and hung out and caught up. Overall it was good times.

I've officially decided to move my workouts back to the a.m. I always used to be a morning work out person, but since starting the job I had moved them to at night. I'm not sure why, it just seemed easier at the time. But with my luck with all the snow and sometimes sheer exhaustion at the end of the day, I missed a lot of workouts this past week. So I'm back to the mornings. (Except for tomorrow because I have to be at an event for work at 7:30 a.m.)

Today's run was kind of sucky. Because it has been a week since I ran I thought it would be smart to push myself a little bit so I didn't fall too far behind. Now smart runners all know we shouldn't push ourselves after a bit of time off, instead we should ease back into it.

Well I wasn't in the mood for any kind of easing this morning. So I went out hard. Too hard. After 13 minutes I was walking because I had such a bad shin splint in my left leg. (And I almost never get shin splints on the treadmill.) I was frustrated as hell but kept walking because I was supposed to get 35 minutes in and I was going to be damned if I quit early. So I walked for a while, then stopped to stretch and then walked some more and then ran for a few minutes and walked again.

It sucked. I get frustrated with less than stellar runs too easily.

Tomorrow's cross-training, but I guess it will have to be at night because of the thing tomorrow. Maybe I'l hit spin class. We'll see.

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11 comments

  1. Spring is coming, slowly but surely. Another nice thing about morning workouts is that it gets you pumped up for the rest of the day.

    Have a great week!

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  2. Can you send snow to Holland ;-).
    Good trainings job and look out of the left leg.Take at asy.
    Groet Rinus.
    http://rinusrunning.punt.nl/?home=1

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  3. I am familar with those kind of runs I know it's frustrating but at least you are trying, keep on making the effort.

    And, btw thanks for wanting to see my t-shirt design, I'll post it when the contest is over :o)

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  4. We had a nice day today on TN, but I think it was the last one for a while!

    I have just gotten used to getting up early to do yoga...I think it will take even more mental energy to get up to run!

    Take Care!

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  5. I am a morning person as well. It just feels so good to get them done with in the AM and have the rest of the day to live your life! :)

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  6. Keep on getting your runs in. You'll be back at your long runs before you know it. And my favorite part - the snow should be gone soon!!

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  7. Sucky runs are ok.. as long as you stick to them. Good work sticking to it.

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  8. Hang in there, Jess. You can get through it.

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  9. I was disappointed with my run yesterday also, but in the end, i think that running at all is better than nothing, so you just need the right perspective.

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  10. We got 8 inches of snow here today!! I am very sick of winter!!! Keep your chin up and keep running. We all have bad days, but those are the runs that make us stronger right? :-)

    GO Anyone Vs. Duke!!! :-)

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  11. I think spring is almost here in Phoenix. :<( I could use one more week of winter.

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