Routine five-miler on the treadmill. Legs seemed to bounce back after last night's attempt at a tempo run; maybe a tiny twinge in the left hamstring but not as much as I frequently have after a hard run or two. Was able to gradually pick up the pace during the run until the final mile was at 9:00 pace -- and the heart rate barely crept above 140.
Kinda have a few distractions for the next few days. My son turns 18 on the 17th, and that's not even the major distraction that day. I have to take my recertification test that day, the every-six-years pain in the gluteus I need to keep my PA-C title. I don't HAVE to pass it -- I won't lose my license or my job -- but if I don't pass, I either have to retake and pass the test or I lose that title. Nobody really knows what that certification means except for another PA, but I still don't want to lose it.
The bad thing about that test is that it's going to cover a whole lot of things I never deal with. Imagine if you were a chemist working in, say, the oil industry, and you had to pass a test every six years about organic chemsistry -- stuff you absolutely never use in your day-to-day job. That's what I face next week. I have to be up to speed on treating high blood pressure and taking care of surgical patients and a whole lot of stuff I'll never use again -- until I have to take the test again in 2014.
Oh well, get through the next 10 days, and then I can hopefully zone in on family, job, and running -- in some order :) | 