I’ve been a bad fat chick this week. I should’ve switched my schedule to run during the day, but I didn’t. I planned to run at night like I’ve always been doing. Unfortunately, I didn’t take into account the fact that I was a single parent this week and the evenings would not be my own.
So I haven’t run since Monday. Sigh.
I had an interview yesterday for a part-time job and I have another one today. I will probably be working 3 days a week and writing the rest of the time (I’ve got deadlines I’ve got to meet) and of course, now we’re in the middle of the holidays–which means I will be spreading myself very thin.
And it’s freaking cold. It’s 26 degrees this morning. Won’t my lungs freeze if I run in this? *looks out the window and the chick running down my street* Hmmmm. Guess not.
I was running in the evening so I could meet up with my girlfriends and we could go together, but that seems to have fallen apart after the week I got sick. (plus this is holiday season and people shop, party, play, etc in the evening) I am going to have to get back to mornings or maybe even lunchtime faux-jogging.
I keep telling myself it’s only 30 minutes. But why is it, that the exercise is the first thing (and the easiest thing) I’m willing to give up?
I haven’t been the best runner myself. I ran on Sunday and afterwards my knees were killing me. By Tuesday they felt okay so I went and ran that evening only to hit the first “time to run now” and have my knees (right one in particular) say “uh, no it’s not”. I was still in a bit of pain on Thursday so I didn’t run. No real excuse for last night (except I had the same “won’t my lungs freeze” moment and took a pass) but I’m going out shortly to see if my knee will hold up.
Had lunch with my runner friend and his wife today and he brought a “runner’s repair manual” or some such book and decided I have runner’s knee. He told me the symptoms (which I don’t have) and told me how it felt (which isn’t consistent to what I’ve been feeling) and declared that’s what I have. He then proceeded to tell me how to “treat” it and said I should be good to go.
Guess we’ll see. lol