Got to go to a wonderful fancy dinner with my husband (on the company) to Ruth's Chris Steakhouse down town. Steaks are good, but OH!! Their broiled tomatoes are to die for! It is like candy melting in your mouth....mmmm!!! I think next time I'll just order sides and forgo the steak :) So, since we were out late and my kids are off track my mom offered to watch them overnight - yay! We, of course, had to go back and pick up baby, but then I've been home with just him all day. So, we cuddled in bed this morning slept in like a couple of lazies :) I didn't get up and out of bed until 10:15! Ahhhh, the joys of having only one child. The only problem was the day care closes at noon - crap! I had to get to the gym. Because baby had been asleep so long he was soaked from head to toe, and it was poopy soak...not clean. This was NOT a wipe job, it required a full bath (and washing my sheets today too!), but we still got to the gym just before 11. I knew I'd have enough time to put in my Friday 10K. Since my legs were feeling the miles yesterday (little aches and pains creeping in) I decided to just take this one nice and easy today. Finished the 10K in 54 minutes, giving me an AP of 8:43. I did my normal progression run starting at 9:05 pace for 2 miles, then 8:41 for 2 miles then 8:34 until 5.5 miles, and from there did an 8:20 until the last .2 I ran a fast 7:30 to get 'er done. The joy of this run came when the 'foot banger' came into the gym. Over my ipod I can hear his feet *bang, bang, bang* on the front of the TM and it drives me NUTS! So, after my run I had a couple minutes before daycare closed and I went over and nonchalantly asked him if he has knee problems (from reaching to far forward with his stride instead of landing his stride under his hips). He was recovering from ITBS, hmmm, really?!? Anyway, so I talked to him about how when he hears his feet hitting the front of the TM it should be a reminder to work on his form to not reach so far forward OR speed up the TM. I don't know if it made any difference, but hopefully he at least got the point that hearing the *bang, bang, bang* for six miles isn't a good thing - for him or us! So, that was my crazy nosiness today. I don't think I've ever approached someone about stuff like that before, but I couldn't take it anymore. “We run, not because we think
it is doing us good, but because we enjoy it and cannot help ourselves.
The more restricted our society and work become, the more necessary it
will be to find some outlet for this craving for freedom. No one can
say, 'You must not run faster than this, or jump higher than that.' The
human spirit is indomitable.” - Roger Bannister
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