I feel like a fraud typing a post on my running blog, considering the sorry state of my running right now. I ran not even 30 miles last month, and I'm on track to not even break 20 this month. I meant to run this week, but felt tired after work. It's also been really hot here and I'm hating my treadmill. Yesterday morning, I planned on running but then I felt like crap all day. This morning I decided I should just eat some SportBeans and get outside before the crappy feeling set in. I felt okay while running, but my hips are SO sore while running. I probably should start doing some hip exercises / lower body weight lifting. My plan to get outside before feeling bad was a good one because I did start feeling bad after I'd gotten back and showered. I ended up falling asleep for close to 2 hours this afternoon - I hope I'm able to sleep tonight.
One really strange side effect is that I can't eat as much in one sitting. We went to the local Indian restaurant today for lunch buffet and I only made one trip up. Last summer, when we would go after I'd done a long run in the morning, I could easily make 3 trips up and not feel too stuffed. We went to Green Mill last weekend, and I only ate half my dinner and had no room for dessert (sad). And two Fridays ago, the guys and I went to Dairy Queen for lunch - I ate my yogurt and fruit, and then couldn't finish a small Blizzard. I'm kind of surprised I'm not more interested in sweets - I've had a pint of Haagen Dazs in my freezer for several weeks, and it's maybe half full still.
Our first OB appointment is Friday, but we met with the nurse last Friday (8/10) for our "intake / education" appointment. The nurse seemed to get confused several times when collecting my information. I didn't think "I ovulated on day 18 so the wheel won't be accurate" was odd. I also didn't think explaining the 50 mg of Clomid for 5 days would be weird to a medical professional (especially an OB-GYN nurse), but she seemed to have trouble understanding that and inputting it into my file. She also got confused about inputting my weight on my chart; I don't agree with her putting my baseline weight as 1 kg less than she weighed me today since I told her that I have not gained any weight. Later, I said I was vegetarian and she recorded it on my chart, but when we got to the nutrition education part she started going into detail about preventing Listeria. I kind of interrupted that I was vegetarian, so deli meat and hot dogs are not something I need to worry about. She then seemed really confused that I also don't eat fish - or chicken. ARGH - what part of vegetarian was confusing??? Anyway, she was useless at answering my question about cleaning up the yard from Molly. And I asked about how I've been really cold lately, even getting chills and she didn't seem to think that mattered - when my books say that's worthy of a call. It was also a little obnoxious to me how long they made the Engineer stay in the waiting room. I understand he couldn't be there for the "does your husband beat you?" question and I guess some women might not want their husband there for being questioned if you think you could have a STD, but they made him stay outside for pretty much all of the questions about my medical history - which isn't private information (at least not between us). It just seemed stupid, but at least he'll be allowed to stay for everything from here on out.
