Jan 14 2009
Why I didn’t run today
Jett's car, with snow
My week in training was going so well. On Monday, I swam a mile–the first time I’d ever gone that far. Granted, I’m slow, and have to take a lot of pauses, and have terrible form, but I made it through 72 lengths of the pool.
Yesterday, as the Arctic blasts were beginning to hit us, I hit the treadmill for a quick 4-miler, and did some upper-body stuff in the weight room after that. (The run took exactly 37:02, for those of you who care about that sort of thing.)
Today, I was scheduled to do 8 miles. But four more inches of snow, contributing to what is now a 15-inch snowpack, made my car quite impossible to move.
I could have taken the train to school today to use the gym, but our evening temperatures were forecast to plunge to below zero. Rather than schlep to Hyde Park with my school things, my gym things, and my eighteen layers of outdoor clothing, only to have to schlep back up to Lakeview with all those things plus post-8-mile fatigue and with a deficit of degrees, I decided to stay home and do my 8-mile run tomorrow.
All this means is that I won’t get a rest day on Friday–all my other workouts should proceed on schedule. I’m hoping that the various sidewalks and paths I need get cleared by Sunday, when it’s forecast to be a relatively balmy 22 degrees. I will, somehow, be running 17 miles that day.
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Congrats on the mile! That’s quite a… milestone. Sorry. Personally I’m dreading getting back in the pool; I’m fairly certain I’d drown well before the mile mark.
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Those are perfect conditions for less traffic making it much safer to be on the roads slugging out the miles. If you can just find one set of tracks to run in then it becomes much easier…not fun, just easier.
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