56 Days to Portland
154 Days to Houston
I know I've been neglecting this blog. I've been running. I did my sixteen mile run last weekend. It was horrible, but I felt like I was on top of the world when I finished. All I wanted to do when I was done was to go to sleep and get up hours later, but I drove to my grandmother's house to visit out of town family. I had a great time, but I think I would have had a better time if I had taken at least a short nap.
I've been trying to speed up this week's schedule because I'm going out of town for a week. I wanted to get in this weekend's long run (a ten mile recovery run) before I left. I'm going to Colorado and would rather not run at altitude. Life interfered.
I'm having minor surgery on the 23rd to correct a problem with my kidneys. Without getting into too much detail, I have a congenital defect that is causing pain. Hopefully this procedure fixes things. I spent so much time dealing with work and health issues I didn't want to run.
I tried to do my five mile run last night--I thought if I felt well enough I'd stretch it into ten miles. I stopped at four. It was just a horrible run. I thought it best to finish because I was feeling so sick. I don't know if it was the heat, or if it was just my body, but it wasn't having anything to do with it. I still let myself put a star on my five mile spot on my calendar. Have I mentioned that I'm all elementary school and put a gold star on the calendar when I run? It works for me :)
I don't know if I'm going to try to run in Colorado. I might near the end of my stay. I plan to do quite a bit of hiking in the mountains, and I will count those hikes at altitude as my junk miles. I think the effort will be equivalent.
