Sunday, April 17, 2011

Sock it to me

Workout: 3.49-mile run

When you dream about your efforts to unearth your running socks from the laundry basket, it might be time for you to actually get out there and run.

I hadn't run since Monday, and I was definitely ready to get out there today. Just ask Mark - I've been a royal not-nice lady since Thursday. Thank goodness I always have hormones to blame.

My goal was 3.0 miles for my ::cough, cough:: 30th birthday today. Knowing that Mark hasn't been on the "distance" bandwagon and knowing that I wanted to run my favorite section of the Greenway (a 3.5-mile trip), we decided to go with a run/walk - running a half-mile and recovering for a tenth of a mile. My ego wasn't a big fan of this idea but I have to say that it did feel quite nice to get an active "breather" during the run and helped me to feel stronger during the running portion.

Of course, I would have been unstoppable (ha!) had the wind not been blowing like it was going out of style. I swear that no matter what direction we ran, the wind was right in our face. I even wrote a song about it: I hate the wind. Yes, I do. I hate the wind. Yeah-eah. The worst part about the wind, though, wasn't the feeling of running in place. Oh, no. It was that the run was otherwise such a beautiful one - full sun, mild-ish temps (40 degrees) and signs of spring all along the riverbank.

I will say that the wind did die down the last half-mile or so and I returned home sufficiently sweaty ... and happy, rejuvenated and more like myself than I have for days.

Do you get cranky if you have had a slight running hiatus?

8 comments:

  1. Yes, I do! I get super cranky!

    HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

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  2. Awesome job, girl!! Yes...I do get grumpy! LOL Hope you had a great Birthday!!! :0)

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  3. Happy Birthday!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Wow - 30 is a big one!!!!! And, no, I don't get cranky if I don't run often - I probably get super happy :) HA!!!

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  4. I'm going to get past my cranky-pants self to wish you a Happy Birthday!!!

    Didn't you know the 30s are the new 20s? It's great - welcome to the clug;)

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  5. Happy birthday!!!! 30 is so YOUNG!!

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  6. Very! I ran twice last week once on Sunday and once on Thursday, those day's in between were not very pleasant!

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  7. I definitely get cranky if I go more than a few days without running! Usually it's because I'm on vacation or sick and the latter is the worst...because all I want to do is run and my body literally just can't handle it...makes for much more crankiness.

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  8. Happy Birthday! I've moved past the crankiness and straight to anxiousness about returning to running once this little one arrives.

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