After last nights’ successful 5 mile run (6 miles total walk + run), I am anxious to get back in the gym tonight for my scheduled 3 miles. My right calf feels tight today, but nothing alarming. Definitely not like yesterday or the day before.
It wasn’t the calf that was upsetting me, actually.
It was Sunday’s wretched shin pain that eclipsed to a disappointing 3 mile walk that really threw me for a loop. Sunday’s run turned walk in the falling snow coupled with my extreme calf tightness on Monday and yesterday was just more than I could grasp.
I tinkered with the repercussions of claiming mental insanity (will I lose my job, will I have to be medicated, will I start drooling on myself, and so on). Then, I began toying with the idea of purchasing a Hover Round and a Snuggie, and just living happily ever after (with my free book light and extra Snuggie, no less). And never running again.
Never.
I said never.
The more I considered it, I decided that I just wasn’t comfortable driving a Hover Round. I’m sure that I’d crash it. My overly-vivid imagination brought me to a terrible foreshadowing moment in time. I was driving my Hover Round aimlessly through town in the dead of the night while reading “ChiRunning” (free book light ablaze), having one of those “I coulda been a runna” moments. All of a sudden, my Snuggie inexplicably became wrapped around the little wheels of my Hover Round. It was all bad.
The mere thought of this tragic scene invoked terrible childhood memories involving my BFF, a vanilla ice cream cone, a bicycle, and a large hill. Oh yeah. And gravel. Lots of gravel.
Where was I headed with this? I forgot.
Oh yeah.
So the point is that not only do I love running too much to stop, but I also don’t want to crash my Hover Round.
Or something like that.
I was supposed to meet with Liz today at 12:30, but an emergency has pushed our appointment to 5:15. Then I have to pick up the pups from Wednesday doggie daycamp. Then I have to go home and change for the gym. I’m hoping that I can get to the gym by 7:15 so that I can be out by 8ish (only 3 miles on the schedule). I’m finding it really difficult on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday (run days) to eat dinner prior to 10PM. It’s kind of a pain in the arse actually. I need to be better prepared for quick dinners.
Yesterday I started using my food log again. I haven’t used it in ages, but it helped me to take back a little more control over my own existence anyway. It’s also made me realize that I’m not getting enough protein.
But all of my meat is frozen, and at 8PM I don’t feel like trying to cook frozen meat!
Ideas people?
