Getting Better??

121 Days to Race

I haven't written since my last really bad run. Why? I don't know.  Perhaps I wanted to write that things were now going really well. I can't say that, though.  I'm doing well.  I'm healthy.  I just had to ice my knees, but nothing too bad.  I'm just starting to wonder again if I'm crazy.

I had a good run on Sunday.  I did eight miles in a local park.  I hadn't been to this particular park in several years.  There is now a good set of running trails through the woods.  Woods are good in this heat.  Besides, it was nice to see a bunny rabbit at about 7.5 miles.  Anything to get my mind off the fact that I was tired.

I went for a decently long bike ride on Tuesday and ran three miles yesterday. Oh, yesterday.  I went up to the indoor track at the school where I work.  I don't really like running there because it is only a tenth mile loop and that gets old really, really fast, but it beats the heat. I made one lap before the volleyball camp that was happening on the gym floor let out for a break.  Thousands (not really) of middle school aged girls swarmed the track and wouldn't let me pass.  I had to stop, ask them to move, deal with preteen attitudes, and shove my way through.  I went into the Wellness Center and continued the run on a treadmill. Which I could have done at home.  Ugh.

Today I ran fartleks at the school.  I would have normally run on the track but the volleyball camp was still going on.  I just wasn't in the mood to deal with it.  I did pretty well, but, as I've said here numerous times, fartleks suck.  My knees weren't too happy with me afterward.  They aren't exactly bad, but they just let me know they'd had some work today. I thought I had better ice them just in case.  The last thing I need is bad knees.

On a different note, my family is talking about taking a trip together later this summer to Colorado.  Good news? I love Colorado.  Bad news? I'm supposed to run my eighteen miler that week.  I ain't gonna do that one at altitude.  I'll be researching alternative schedules if we decide to actually go.