So, yesterdays R&R with the work fam was awesome! So welcomed and needed. I work with some pretty great people and i truly do love them and being around them. <3
Today was a cross train day since it was raining and gross out--we were NOT running 16 outside in that! I went to the gym with Moe and Mike today at the WOW in Wall. It was nice. All new and shiny :-) Did the StairMaster for 10 mins as a warm up. I used the one where the stairs actually move. Ha, funny about it though. When you walk up and down the stairs in your house, or other familiar places, you don't really even look down at your feet, you just go. You know whats coming next, stair stair stair, landing, stair x8, turn to the right, stair stair stair stair, hallway. I mean, its your house of course you know the stairs. Now when i was on this particular StairMaster, its kind of like going up the steps at your house. There is nothing to trip over, you know exactly what is coming next, and there aren't even any turns. Its just step, step, step, step, step over and over again. So explain to me why 1.) I MUST look down at my feet? As if something might happen i insist on looking down every 2 seconds! and 2.) Its so much harder than the stairs at your house? I can walk up the stairs easy peasy but on here, i have to hold myself up on the rails and i am dripping sweat and its a lot of work. And that's not even on a hard level! Go figure really!
After that i ellipticalled for a while on interval level. I like that level. Its only one minute of hard and then over. Oppositely however, its only one minute of easy too, but you know how i like to look at things. And a minute is like no time at all. I enjoyed! I then watch Maureen do abs etc because Elvis STILL won't allow such shenanigans to take place! Oh Elvis how i loathe you!
Tomorrow (well practically today since its so stinkin late!) is 16 miles. Our foursome "Study" group will be together tomorrow. I told Mike, Moe, and Danny that i really don't know how I'm going to fair in a 16 miler so if need be, they can go ahead and i will have to drop behind a little bit. I'm trying not to psych myself out, and i really want to stick with my friends and run with them and stay with them, but i think they are just in better marathon shape than i am! I have been following our schedule to a T and yet, they are kickin my butt. Jerks! ::::JUUUUST kidding guys love you xoxo::::::
I am excited for the Jelly Beans i bought the other weekend, gonna be a good run filled with delicious snacks i knooooow it! And i also have 2 Lemon-Lime GU Packs to bring with me. I'm hoping that i have a better handle on my pre-run diet and will not be feeling like i have been the past few runs. I have been really reading a lot about what to eat and also what NOT to eat before a long run and am going to be trying out a lot of the things i read one at a time until i find SOMETHING that i can work with. Many people suggested peanut butter, but i did that the last weekend, and it still didn't work for me. Perhaps i just have a sensitive stomach/GI tract? Who knows!
Well rest time is in full effect for tomorrows/today's really long run. Then some serious relaxing during football. Please let me finish this run, please let me finish this run, pleaseeee!
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