At first we thought we were going to have to postpone after the Dr. looked at the size etc., would require quite a cut and a total of 13 stitches. There would be no running she said for a while.
So then she said she could 'drain' it now to shrink it, and then later come back and she could do what she needed to do to get it all to have it not return. I wanted her to do that because I have had this cyst for some time and its annoying and I always worry about it getting inflamed from the jeans I wear to whatever aggravating it. It resided right on my tummy where say a bikini would hit.
Anyway she shot my stomach up with numb stuff, and once she got to work she said that she actually was able to get it ALL with a minimal cut, 3 stitches later and a big ass needle shot in my booty I was shooed on out the door!
Best part is that I am able to run whenever. It will be quite sore tomorrow so I will more than likely walk on the treadmill for an hour, then do my 8 miles as scheduled on Saturday!!! SO SO SO HAPPY!
Whats even better is she took a look at a few 'spots' that I wanted to make sure I didnt need to be concerned about due to melonoma being the initial starting point of my fathers cancer and ultimate death. And she said they all are fine; no cause for concern!!!!
That makes me even happier!!!
Now to just wait for the pain of the incision to kick in....
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Wow!!
A lot of new readers when I checked my stats this morning!!! Awesome! But why isn't anyone commenting?? :o)
Anyway, I was supposed to run at 5:30am this morning. I had everything ready, etc but when the alarm went off I just couldn't; I wanted to stay in my bed. Eh, not a big deal.
I am not able to run this afternoon and probably for the next 2 days as I am having some outpatient surgery this afternoon. Nothing major, only requiring a few stitches at most. I asked when I made the appointment about running the marathon 11 days out and running in general, and the lady told me no problem. I would suspect that the area will be a little sore from the incision, and that should subside by Saturday when I have my last "long" run before marathon. Our plan this Saturday is to run 8 miles of hills! Easy of course. 8 loops of the cloverleaves...and at a decent hour of the morning too! We get a reprieve from the 6am roll call at KW; thankfully so as the temps here on Saturday morning are going to be about 20 deg!!!
However, if I get there this afternoon and the actual Dr. tells me otherwise (that I can't run till stitches are out), we will be rescheduling!!! :o) I am not going to not run for 7 days!!!
If its not sore at all on Friday, or at least minimal, I plan to at least walk an hour on the treadmill or something!!! ha!
A lot of new readers when I checked my stats this morning!!! Awesome! But why isn't anyone commenting?? :o)
Anyway, I was supposed to run at 5:30am this morning. I had everything ready, etc but when the alarm went off I just couldn't; I wanted to stay in my bed. Eh, not a big deal.
I am not able to run this afternoon and probably for the next 2 days as I am having some outpatient surgery this afternoon. Nothing major, only requiring a few stitches at most. I asked when I made the appointment about running the marathon 11 days out and running in general, and the lady told me no problem. I would suspect that the area will be a little sore from the incision, and that should subside by Saturday when I have my last "long" run before marathon. Our plan this Saturday is to run 8 miles of hills! Easy of course. 8 loops of the cloverleaves...and at a decent hour of the morning too! We get a reprieve from the 6am roll call at KW; thankfully so as the temps here on Saturday morning are going to be about 20 deg!!!
However, if I get there this afternoon and the actual Dr. tells me otherwise (that I can't run till stitches are out), we will be rescheduling!!! :o) I am not going to not run for 7 days!!!
If its not sore at all on Friday, or at least minimal, I plan to at least walk an hour on the treadmill or something!!! ha!
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Let the "Games" Begin...
Not really 'games' but the little weird things that start this close to marathon for me. I slowly start to become a 'hermit'; which isn't hard to do right now because its so darn cold here for us SE Texans that you don't want to go out unless you absolutely have to.
I could also equate it to 'nesting'. I start doing what some may call OCD or just odd...but over time, I have learned what works for me in all aspects: mentally, physically, nutritionally...I know its less than 2 weeks out but I start 'rain-man'ing'. I start thinking about the course I am going to run (in this case Houston so I have an advantage of having actually run it before and also trained on all of it as well); I know where the hard parts are and I know where I can make up time if I have to go slower or I have to stop for any reason.
I start thinking ok, miles such and such, go about this pace...slow down here, go faster here...and I know the ppm of each in my head as well.
While running, I become a mathematician. Which anyone who knows me, knows I hate math. But when running, I am excellent at it. But then again, its pretty easy calculations and a lot of 'averages'.
I start thinking about different scenarios as it pertains to clothing. What do I have that is going to be my throwaway stuff if need be. Its all in my head and yes about 7 days out, 2 different 'outfits' will be ready to go and folded nice and neat on the dresser. The socks will be placed on top of the shoes... You get the picture.
And the fascination with what goes into my body has already begun (stricter than usual). You won't see me eating anything that is not cooked or prepared by me, especially since I am in the host city. I don't trust any pasta party or get togethers of the sort. It doesn't bode well for me.
In NYC it was a different story as I was there 3 days before race day, but still I ate fresh and what I knew wasn't something that tended to almost always induce some degree of botulism (e.g. lettuce; worst culprit ever). I still brought things that I knew my body responded to with no issues and about 36 hours before, you didnt see me each much of anything. Yeah the wait staff didn't always 'appreciate' my exactness on what I wanted and how it should be prepared.
Even now I am bringing my breakfast, lunch and snacks to work. I normally do, but I stray to the cafeteria a lot. Not for the next 2 weeks at least. Think about it...every time you either got any level of food poisoning (includes bad gastro) was it because of something YOU cooked or because you ate it somewhere else (as in a restaurant)...I dont trust restaurants or carbo loading pasta parties at this stage of the game.
In the past couple of years, I didn't always have the circle of friends I do now, so because of the past (being usually with one person leading up to the race) gave me my time to focus a lot on just resting and honestly not a lot of social activity outside of him. And because of that I find that I am now starting to 'withdraw' into my cocoon where I have complete control over every aspect leading up to that morning.
I do have plans to get together with my 'peeps' that I blogged about yesterday beforehand (outside of running together that is), but in moderation (and I won't be eating thats for sure!).
You see last year, 4 days before I was to run the 1/2 in Houston (after having to switch from the full), I got full on, worst kind of sick you can imagine from something I ate. For 3 days I could not eat OR drink without throwing up. 3. Days. I lost 6 lbs and was only able to finally eat 1/2 turkey sandwich at noon the day before the race. I was severely dehydrated etc. Since my boss got it too, and we both ate the same thing that morning at our meeting...if I remember correctly it was from Starbucks...
I also become a germ-a-phobe. I wash my hands constantly...I dont touch stair railings unless I pull my sleeve over my hand; same for the escalator in one of our buildings...I have alcohol wipes for the grocery carts...It almost killed me over the weekend being in a theatre that ended up being full to capacity and people all around me sniffling and sneezing...ugh.
Heck I will even have picked out exactly what lot I will be parking in on race morning. You won't see me driving around aimlessly looking for a place to park.
The one thing I have changed though is my obsessing over the long range forecast. Its the sole thing that drives me the craziest and stresses me out. This time I am only seeing the 7 day forecast on the news and going with that. Houston weather is ridiculous and it can change from one day to the next. Therefore I am eliminating that stress from the process...what will be, will be.
We all have our rituals I think...well most do I would suspect, but then there are those fly by the seat of your pants kind of runner/racer.
I'm just not one of them.
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4 miles easy tonight, on the treadmill
Yoga (home): 1 hour
I could also equate it to 'nesting'. I start doing what some may call OCD or just odd...but over time, I have learned what works for me in all aspects: mentally, physically, nutritionally...I know its less than 2 weeks out but I start 'rain-man'ing'. I start thinking about the course I am going to run (in this case Houston so I have an advantage of having actually run it before and also trained on all of it as well); I know where the hard parts are and I know where I can make up time if I have to go slower or I have to stop for any reason. I start thinking ok, miles such and such, go about this pace...slow down here, go faster here...and I know the ppm of each in my head as well.
While running, I become a mathematician. Which anyone who knows me, knows I hate math. But when running, I am excellent at it. But then again, its pretty easy calculations and a lot of 'averages'.
I start thinking about different scenarios as it pertains to clothing. What do I have that is going to be my throwaway stuff if need be. Its all in my head and yes about 7 days out, 2 different 'outfits' will be ready to go and folded nice and neat on the dresser. The socks will be placed on top of the shoes... You get the picture.
And the fascination with what goes into my body has already begun (stricter than usual). You won't see me eating anything that is not cooked or prepared by me, especially since I am in the host city. I don't trust any pasta party or get togethers of the sort. It doesn't bode well for me.
In NYC it was a different story as I was there 3 days before race day, but still I ate fresh and what I knew wasn't something that tended to almost always induce some degree of botulism (e.g. lettuce; worst culprit ever). I still brought things that I knew my body responded to with no issues and about 36 hours before, you didnt see me each much of anything. Yeah the wait staff didn't always 'appreciate' my exactness on what I wanted and how it should be prepared.
Even now I am bringing my breakfast, lunch and snacks to work. I normally do, but I stray to the cafeteria a lot. Not for the next 2 weeks at least. Think about it...every time you either got any level of food poisoning (includes bad gastro) was it because of something YOU cooked or because you ate it somewhere else (as in a restaurant)...I dont trust restaurants or carbo loading pasta parties at this stage of the game.
In the past couple of years, I didn't always have the circle of friends I do now, so because of the past (being usually with one person leading up to the race) gave me my time to focus a lot on just resting and honestly not a lot of social activity outside of him. And because of that I find that I am now starting to 'withdraw' into my cocoon where I have complete control over every aspect leading up to that morning.
I do have plans to get together with my 'peeps' that I blogged about yesterday beforehand (outside of running together that is), but in moderation (and I won't be eating thats for sure!).
You see last year, 4 days before I was to run the 1/2 in Houston (after having to switch from the full), I got full on, worst kind of sick you can imagine from something I ate. For 3 days I could not eat OR drink without throwing up. 3. Days. I lost 6 lbs and was only able to finally eat 1/2 turkey sandwich at noon the day before the race. I was severely dehydrated etc. Since my boss got it too, and we both ate the same thing that morning at our meeting...if I remember correctly it was from Starbucks...
Heck I will even have picked out exactly what lot I will be parking in on race morning. You won't see me driving around aimlessly looking for a place to park.
The one thing I have changed though is my obsessing over the long range forecast. Its the sole thing that drives me the craziest and stresses me out. This time I am only seeing the 7 day forecast on the news and going with that. Houston weather is ridiculous and it can change from one day to the next. Therefore I am eliminating that stress from the process...what will be, will be.
We all have our rituals I think...well most do I would suspect, but then there are those fly by the seat of your pants kind of runner/racer.
I'm just not one of them.
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4 miles easy tonight, on the treadmill
Yoga (home): 1 hour
Monday, January 4, 2010
The Hills are Alive!!!
PSA: Long gone are the days when I would 'censor' what I write on a public blog. I have a lot of opinions (and proven methods for me) about training (running), weight, cross training, etc. Therefore I apologize in advance for any future postings where a) I offend someone b) you think I am talking directly about you or c) a combination of A and B.
OK onto the daily training stuff...
Mondays are still hill training workout days. And today I still had 6 miles on the schedule. Yes, I am tapering but still...6 today; other than Wednesday and Saturday of this week, the mileage is minimal at best.
Anyhow...its rather chilly today...About 45 deg when I started with a 2 mile warm up before starting the actual hill workout. Today was 25 min, working 2 hills as opposed to 4. And of course one of them was the hardest IMHO. We call that one cloverleaf #2. And to make matters even worse, that one on the uphill is directly North and with a North wind, well it was cold as all get out! Megan and I went over the allotted 25 minutes but we figured an extra hill never hurt anyone... :o)
When I got back in the car, the 'droid said 38 deg.
A very encouraging run at this point and I am trying desperately to not become over-confident about marathon day. Things are just gel-ing at every turn it seems...I know that anything can happen in the next 11 days and even ON race day...but still...oh and of course we still have to wonder about what Mother Nature will hand us on January 17th.
And I am super excited that tomorrows schedule only has me down for 4 miles! Whaaat? 4 miles? Excellent.
Toodles!!
Mondays are still hill training workout days. And today I still had 6 miles on the schedule. Yes, I am tapering but still...6 today; other than Wednesday and Saturday of this week, the mileage is minimal at best.
Anyhow...its rather chilly today...About 45 deg when I started with a 2 mile warm up before starting the actual hill workout. Today was 25 min, working 2 hills as opposed to 4. And of course one of them was the hardest IMHO. We call that one cloverleaf #2. And to make matters even worse, that one on the uphill is directly North and with a North wind, well it was cold as all get out! Megan and I went over the allotted 25 minutes but we figured an extra hill never hurt anyone... :o)
When I got back in the car, the 'droid said 38 deg.
A very encouraging run at this point and I am trying desperately to not become over-confident about marathon day. Things are just gel-ing at every turn it seems...I know that anything can happen in the next 11 days and even ON race day...but still...oh and of course we still have to wonder about what Mother Nature will hand us on January 17th.
And I am super excited that tomorrows schedule only has me down for 4 miles! Whaaat? 4 miles? Excellent.
Toodles!!
You DO Walk (or rather run) Alone Some of the Time...
I heard this quote on something I was watching on television last night, and because of one of my most recent posts, and the fact that Pony (it immediately made me think of her) was inspired by it, I give you this today:
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Which brings me to the topic at hand today which more blabber about will and heart, etc.
If you train in a group, whether it is small, medium or large. Whether its one you pay for or just a group of pals that meet up at regularly scheduled days and times, I think ultimately, in most cases the outcome is usually the same. I will use my recent marathon training season as the example. Not all of these things pertain to this marathon training in my personal experience, but if you observe like I do, you see it amongst others.
First off in the beginning, everyone and I mean everyone is gung ho! Yay! Its marathon training time! And we all first are excited for each day we have scheduled workouts and long runs. And we more than likely have just about the same goal time in mind as well, and more likely than not, we all start with the same paces give or take. You make plans to eat after, meet here on this day for this, that or the other...etc.
Then after a month or so, here in Texas, in August or September most will start grumbling about the heat. And then someone will have some sort of injury. Maybe a bad one, or maybe just a small one, but now you lose 1, 2 or more of the 'group'.
In October-ish, some will start hitting their groove, finding their stride, and maybe even start playing around with running with the one up faster pace group...just to see, because you know, its obvious that there are varying levels of will, strength and determindation amongst everyone. Some that are faster, and then yes...some that are slower...than everyone thought.
So now the 'crowd' is thinning. Then you have some that just don't show up all the time, sometimes hardly ever. Another 1, maybe 2 are injured, and the ones that were previously injured might be back, but they have to re-build their endurance or speed...
Still you see what is happening.
And the ones that might experience running with the faster group, do indeed stay there, but then there are those that go back and forth between the 2 so you just never know what group they might run with this week...
And still...you see where this is going.
Eventually though it will all 'settle' usually about the time the really long runs start...there are now those that have either a) dropped to the shorter distance or b) have just dropped out completely. And there are those that become divided due to other issues, varying from your basic personality differences to your approach to training and running...
But what is left standing are 'your peeps'. You run about the same pace, have no injuries to speak of, have a lot to talk about, have the same overall time goals...
On training runs, when one of you has to pee or whatever, you all stop. If someone needs to tie a shoe, you all stop. If someone needs to walk a bit, you either walk with them, or you slow down till they feel better, and you let them catch up and resume. If someone needs you to spur them on, you give them tough love...you do what it takes to keep you all together.
There may be more than one of you, but you are a pack. You feed off of each other. You give someone one of your gloves because she took hers off (hey one warm hand is better than none!) and left them at a water station and now her hands are cold. You share gels, pain reliever and Endurolytes if they run out or forget...
You are a training group within a training group within a training group.
It is during training that you are never alone it would seem.
But then comes the time and you are in taper and you start talking about race day. It is on race day where everyone (for a lot of the time) is on their own. You know, as well as the others do, if you have the same mentality that is..that on race day, all bets are off.
You have to pee? See ya if you catch up.
You need to tie your shoe? See ya if you catch up.
You need to slow down? Wow. That sucks. Maybe you can catch up later.
You need to walk? Dude that REALLY sucks.
I'm not passing up this water station. I don't need any water; I am going to keep going.
You see the trend right? As with us, we talked about this very thing on Saturday. We all know that if one of us has a wheel or two come off, the others are not to be like our military, and pledge to leave no man (or woman) left behind. We aren't leaving you to die on the battlefield...its a marathon, on the streets of Houston...its going to be OK.
And we know that each of us that might be left behind, will be thinking of 2 things: a) man this sucks for me and b) damn I hope he/she makes her goal !!!!
You also know that there will be no banter back and forth like on Saturday training runs. There will be no male bashing, talking about Greys Anatomy or anything of the sort. There will only be the murmur of 'slow down, we're way over pace, hey pick it up the next 2 miles or lets take these next 2 slower because we got Allen Parkway coming up'...
When you are together, and if you're lucky enough to make it to the last .2 miles together, you also know that that is where one of you is going to make your move. Regardless of it all, there is still competitiveness in each of you and each one wants to beat the other. Actually more like the last 1.2 miles is where I plan to make my move, but don't tell them... :o) JUST KIDDING GIRLS!!! wink wink
There was never any pact or secret code about ooooooooooooh...lets all have the EXACT SAME TIMES!!! We aren't girly like that...
In the end, on race day, regardless that you might be surrounded by thousands of others, and even in your remaining pack of training buds, you are alone. Its you and the pavement, maybe your thoughts ... always your alter ego though, and quite possibly your God...
You will have nothing else to get you through this other than your sheer determination. Even the best athletes out there may have a bad day, maybe even rougher than you...so again, in the end its not always about the physical, but the mental.
I know, I've been there.
12 days and counting to race day.
And I got my 'peeps'....and I hope and pray every day that we will make it to .2 left to run part as we started... together...then I expect that I will have to smoke them both :o)
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Which brings me to the topic at hand today which more blabber about will and heart, etc.
If you train in a group, whether it is small, medium or large. Whether its one you pay for or just a group of pals that meet up at regularly scheduled days and times, I think ultimately, in most cases the outcome is usually the same. I will use my recent marathon training season as the example. Not all of these things pertain to this marathon training in my personal experience, but if you observe like I do, you see it amongst others.
First off in the beginning, everyone and I mean everyone is gung ho! Yay! Its marathon training time! And we all first are excited for each day we have scheduled workouts and long runs. And we more than likely have just about the same goal time in mind as well, and more likely than not, we all start with the same paces give or take. You make plans to eat after, meet here on this day for this, that or the other...etc.
Then after a month or so, here in Texas, in August or September most will start grumbling about the heat. And then someone will have some sort of injury. Maybe a bad one, or maybe just a small one, but now you lose 1, 2 or more of the 'group'.
In October-ish, some will start hitting their groove, finding their stride, and maybe even start playing around with running with the one up faster pace group...just to see, because you know, its obvious that there are varying levels of will, strength and determindation amongst everyone. Some that are faster, and then yes...some that are slower...than everyone thought.
So now the 'crowd' is thinning. Then you have some that just don't show up all the time, sometimes hardly ever. Another 1, maybe 2 are injured, and the ones that were previously injured might be back, but they have to re-build their endurance or speed...
Still you see what is happening.
And the ones that might experience running with the faster group, do indeed stay there, but then there are those that go back and forth between the 2 so you just never know what group they might run with this week...
And still...you see where this is going.
Eventually though it will all 'settle' usually about the time the really long runs start...there are now those that have either a) dropped to the shorter distance or b) have just dropped out completely. And there are those that become divided due to other issues, varying from your basic personality differences to your approach to training and running...
But what is left standing are 'your peeps'. You run about the same pace, have no injuries to speak of, have a lot to talk about, have the same overall time goals...
On training runs, when one of you has to pee or whatever, you all stop. If someone needs to tie a shoe, you all stop. If someone needs to walk a bit, you either walk with them, or you slow down till they feel better, and you let them catch up and resume. If someone needs you to spur them on, you give them tough love...you do what it takes to keep you all together.
There may be more than one of you, but you are a pack. You feed off of each other. You give someone one of your gloves because she took hers off (hey one warm hand is better than none!) and left them at a water station and now her hands are cold. You share gels, pain reliever and Endurolytes if they run out or forget...
You are a training group within a training group within a training group.
It is during training that you are never alone it would seem.
But then comes the time and you are in taper and you start talking about race day. It is on race day where everyone (for a lot of the time) is on their own. You know, as well as the others do, if you have the same mentality that is..that on race day, all bets are off.
You have to pee? See ya if you catch up.
You need to tie your shoe? See ya if you catch up.
You need to slow down? Wow. That sucks. Maybe you can catch up later.
You need to walk? Dude that REALLY sucks.
I'm not passing up this water station. I don't need any water; I am going to keep going.
You see the trend right? As with us, we talked about this very thing on Saturday. We all know that if one of us has a wheel or two come off, the others are not to be like our military, and pledge to leave no man (or woman) left behind. We aren't leaving you to die on the battlefield...its a marathon, on the streets of Houston...its going to be OK.
And we know that each of us that might be left behind, will be thinking of 2 things: a) man this sucks for me and b) damn I hope he/she makes her goal !!!!
You also know that there will be no banter back and forth like on Saturday training runs. There will be no male bashing, talking about Greys Anatomy or anything of the sort. There will only be the murmur of 'slow down, we're way over pace, hey pick it up the next 2 miles or lets take these next 2 slower because we got Allen Parkway coming up'...
When you are together, and if you're lucky enough to make it to the last .2 miles together, you also know that that is where one of you is going to make your move. Regardless of it all, there is still competitiveness in each of you and each one wants to beat the other. Actually more like the last 1.2 miles is where I plan to make my move, but don't tell them... :o) JUST KIDDING GIRLS!!! wink wink
There was never any pact or secret code about ooooooooooooh...lets all have the EXACT SAME TIMES!!! We aren't girly like that...
In the end, on race day, regardless that you might be surrounded by thousands of others, and even in your remaining pack of training buds, you are alone. Its you and the pavement, maybe your thoughts ... always your alter ego though, and quite possibly your God...
You will have nothing else to get you through this other than your sheer determination. Even the best athletes out there may have a bad day, maybe even rougher than you...so again, in the end its not always about the physical, but the mental.
I know, I've been there.
12 days and counting to race day.
And I got my 'peeps'....and I hope and pray every day that we will make it to .2 left to run part as we started... together...then I expect that I will have to smoke them both :o)
Sunday, January 3, 2010
Tailgating Doesn't Suck...
And what a game! Whew! So exciting!!!
Saturday, January 2, 2010
Sparkling Run - Kenyan Way
A nice, crisp morning for a run. So much so that when I went out to my car this morning, there was a nice, thin layer of ice on the windshield! For some reason I have not been able to acclimate to the cold this year (maybe I've lost that layer of fat afterall!), so I have been having to experiment with different types of clothing (layering and such) on the runs. My one pair of tights that I bought several years ago are too big now, and Lukes is out of tights in anything smaller than a large :( ... so this morning I ran in some Nike pants that I had bought last year and they worked out perfectly! Thankfully I have them in 3 colors too! A Nike Pro long sleeve and a Zoot zip up and I was perfectly fine the entire run.
Since I am in taper mode, the schedule has me down to 12 miles for today. The route, as I mentioned was not one that I am fond of, but SW suggested at each pace group to add on an extra loop of Memorial as opposed to actually doing the bayou. So 1/2 way into the first loop we decided to do just that. The frost and ice all over the grass there around Memorial etc made it very sparkly this morning! Off in a distance it gave the impression of snow. :) It went by so fast as the 3 of us were such chatty cathy's this morning, it flew by. We talked about marathon day, our 'strategy', etc. I have to agree with Megan as she thinks that with the right weather (i.e. cold) we should rock it out, no problem. That is...barring that anything horrible happens to us along the way. After the 2 loops and heading back, we had to do extra there at base to hit the 12. Then it was off to breakfast for more chatter about tapering and race day!
I really needed a perfect run today and thats exactly what we got. Legs are still in recovery mode, but I can feel that they're on the mend. This week still had me at 37 miles, and next week is 25. I have to run tomorrow as I cant run on Thursday of this next week due to a little 'surgery' I am having done on Wednesday. I will have to run my Wednesday run before work that day. Poo!
Now its off to a movie with B, some good rest tonight, short run in the early morning and then the Texans game/tailgating tomorrow!
Since I am in taper mode, the schedule has me down to 12 miles for today. The route, as I mentioned was not one that I am fond of, but SW suggested at each pace group to add on an extra loop of Memorial as opposed to actually doing the bayou. So 1/2 way into the first loop we decided to do just that. The frost and ice all over the grass there around Memorial etc made it very sparkly this morning! Off in a distance it gave the impression of snow. :) It went by so fast as the 3 of us were such chatty cathy's this morning, it flew by. We talked about marathon day, our 'strategy', etc. I have to agree with Megan as she thinks that with the right weather (i.e. cold) we should rock it out, no problem. That is...barring that anything horrible happens to us along the way. After the 2 loops and heading back, we had to do extra there at base to hit the 12. Then it was off to breakfast for more chatter about tapering and race day!
I really needed a perfect run today and thats exactly what we got. Legs are still in recovery mode, but I can feel that they're on the mend. This week still had me at 37 miles, and next week is 25. I have to run tomorrow as I cant run on Thursday of this next week due to a little 'surgery' I am having done on Wednesday. I will have to run my Wednesday run before work that day. Poo!
Now its off to a movie with B, some good rest tonight, short run in the early morning and then the Texans game/tailgating tomorrow!
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