The alarm went off at 6 this morning and all I could do was hit the snooze button. As I was laying there waiting for it to go off again I started focusing on how I had to pee and then how my back was aching a bit (I had watched TV in bed the night before for a couple of hours and then slept for a solid 8, after that much horizontal action, my back starts to complain) and then how if I didn’t get up the coffee would be burnt tasting as Ruthann had already been up for a hour and finally how if I did get up I could actually still go running. So with all that (and I needed every bit of reasoning) I rolled out of my comfortable bed.
One other reason I had for waking was that my run I had scheduled was not going to be a long one. And I made sure it wasn’t (though my desires for distance made me add a little) I ended up doing almost 7 miles. I clocked my 10K distance at 53:33 which I thought was going to be better. I am realizing that if I want to improve my speeds, I need to keep up the efforts for the entire run. Frankly, I don’t really care enough to now. I know if I started up with some speed training I would be more inspired, but not at the moment.
Today I didn’t bring any water as I was going for a relatively short distance and it was pretty cool outside and mostly cause I somehow managed to but my belly button. I think I did it by wearing my water belt in the first place and having it rub wrong. I am actually not sure, but it is somewhat uncomfortable. Anyway, back to running with no water. I really missed having it and by the time I finished I was losing water fast. I think this was the sweatiest I have been since that really hot run I did last month. Is it even possible to sweat more if you don’t drink? The more I think about it the more backwards it seems. Maybe it was just hot? But it wasn’t really. I think maybe drinking water cools me down. Hmm.
Running without water…where was your brain? Yeah, back in that comfortable bed.
I watched the long distance runners during the Olympics. Wow, my hats off to them. I could not imagine the stamina it takes to do what they do.
Oh no kidding, those folks are also running so fast it is unbelievable to me. I watched a little bit of the men’s marathon and they were really impressive. I can’t even imagine keeping up that speed for so long. Amazing!
hope that you are doing before running so hard its very important specially for someone like you who is running with a backache,bythe way did you consult your phsiotherapist before running?
Yeah I have talked with several neurologists who all were very encouraging about my running. They put all of my fears of doing any damage to myself to rest.
My backache is actually a very slight thing, I usually only get one if stay in bad for too long (9-10 hours, fortunately (for my back anyway) I rarely get to sleep that much). I find that once I am up and moving around that it seems to go away, certainly isn’t an issue for running at all.
I pulled a muscle in my back this spring and that was a completely different thing. I was barely walking much less running!