August 06, 2007
Days 4, 5, and The Fudge Factor
I was in Cleveland for 24 hours on Friday/Saturday. My original plan to do my brick workout before heading to the airport Friday morning didn't pan out, but I had plenty of time to do it in the hotel gym that afternoon. No problem. I was actually really excited about my Saturday morning run, and had grand plans to head down to the towpath for it. However, the one thing I forgot to account for was the time zone change. Because of that, when my alarm went off at 5:30 Saturday morning, I couldn't head out quite yet because it was still completely dark.Grrrr.
That was fine, though. I had a birthday party to go to that afternoon, but my flight landed a good few hours before I had to be anywhere, so I should have just enough time to get the run in before heading out to the party. Or, I would have, if I hadn't checked baggage and then had to deal with the extra traffic from the Cubs game on the way home. That turned my hour-long trip home into a two-hour odyssey and, you guessed it, ate up the time I had slated for my run.
Double grrrrr.
Sunday morning, I got up and found that it was too wet and rainy out to do my scheduled ride, so I headed to the gym for a spin class instead. The class turned out to be quite the killer - no one told the instructor that it was a 45-minute class and not a 60-minutes, and he had us doing climbs the entire time. Ouch. Sunday afternoon, my legs were feeling a little stiff and I figured that would be a good time for me to do Saturday's scheduled recovery run, even if it was a day late.
So out I went. I did a nice, super-easy hour of running. My legs felt better, I felt better, and since I was still at 5 workouts for 5 days, I think we can pretend that I'm still hanging in there for Augustathon?
Posted by Dawn at August 6, 2007 10:55 AM