May 13th: Night time run

back to school

Well, I’m swamped with reading 4 chapters, and I already have a couple of papers I need to be working on… and its only the second day of classes.  I spent 14 hours either in my car or at a desk at work or at school today.  My knees hurt from being bent all day, and my butt and lower back hurt from being sedentary.  When 7:55pm rolled around and the professor began to make sidebar conversation with my peers, I quietly escaped the classroom and ran to my car.  I wanted to take advantage of the last bits of day light.  I needed to see the sun for my own sanity after being in a window-less office then a window-less classroom all day.  Plus I didn’t want to run in total darkness.

I got to the house, greeted the pups, changed and headed out the door.  I did 3 miles at an 8:50 pace under the light of a full moon.  Not the best run I’ve had but most definitely not the worst.  I’ll proudly accept my performance, especially considering the crazy long day I had.  Feels so good to keep it up! Now…. lets get some of that reading done… :-\

I Kept Going…

puke

I don’t know if I have a cramp or a pulled muscle in my left calf but it HURRRRTTSS…

It started hurting the minute I started running this evening.  I stretched and pulled through the pain to keep running because I was doing well and was feeling great otherwise.  Although I was happy to have kept going, I’m wondering if it was kind of a stupid move because, to be honest, it now hurts me more.  I better not be in too much pain to enjoy my long run this Sunday!  Either way, I’ll still keep going during that run too… I’ll rest from running until then.

This evening I drank coconut water for the potassium and took Magnesium in case its a cramp and have massaged it and put on some Biofreeze and took a Turmeric for the inflammation…  Wish me luck :-/