Crap-tastic Run

On Saturday, Steve had a Rotary project to help clean up some of the abandoned houses in Cahokia. We raked the front yard, cut down overgrown bushes, boarded up the windows and painted them, and cleaned up trash. Not bad for a few hours on a Saturday.

Of course, this meant that my Saturday long run was pushed back, and I also missed Piyo and Zumba! Huge sacrifice!

So Sunday morning, I got up at 6, but couldn't start running until 6:30 because the sun wasn't out yet, and it was pitch black. If you aren't a runner, rule #1 is always go to the bathroom before you head out. Which I did. However, we had stopped at a BBQ place after our hard work the day before, and apparently I'm not used to that brand of BBQ. The last mile, I was hurting, and I couldn't wait to get home to my bathroom! I could have stopped at the gas station on the corner, but for some reason, when a bathroom is available, your intestines let up, and you think, "I'm good. I can make it home." 

Anyway, I survived. Ran 5 miles. Then I had to make up the rest of the run after church, so I headed to the park which is between the gym and my house. I got a text that said there was no SUNDAY FUNDAY workout because they're painting the exercise room, so she wanted to know if we could meet in the park! Great! I would finish my run (3 miles) and go to Zumba! 

Except I ate too much for lunch before I ran, so my stomach was cramping up. I waited an hour. Is there a rule, like for swimming?! It was the slowest shuffle ever. Step step OW... walk a few paces, try to run, no....

Anyway, they changed the park on me, and I had to drive to the next town over to Zumba in a pavilion, which was fun, but kind of hot, even in the shade! And I STILL only had 7.5 miles of real running in ... which meant...

TREADMILL!! I grabbed my handy tablet, streamed "The Dresden Files" on Amazon Prime, and ran another 2.5 to make it 10 total. Then I walked to the end of the episode, so I did a total of 11 miles yesterday.

I think you feel a greater sense of accomplishment if you run all those miles at once -- and also, you have to get motivated to go out and run MORE THAN ONCE on the SAME DAY! But now I'm tapering until Sunday, so it's a four-mile run tomorrow, three on Wednesday, two on Thursday and then rest til Sunday morning! 

And no more BBQ!!!!!!