Week 6: Doing the Robot

I think spring fever is here. All day long I was itching to get outside. The weather was perfect: temperature in the mid 70's, light breeze, and a couple fluffy clouds in the sky to cut the intense Texas sun. Endurance sport is made for days like this. If it weren't for back to back to back to back meetings, I'd have gone crazy with anticipation. I almost pulled a Mick Swope during the third meeting and bowed out with appendicitis. Somehow I figured the buy guy would have seen me running by his office on the way out.

Finally, freedom came around 5pm. My hamstring has been giving me trouble for about 3 weeks now. I've cut my training volume back quite a bit to give it a chance to rest. That hasn't seemed to work too well, so yesterday I started taking a couple ibuprofen with my multivitamin (Double X) to deal with any inflammation that may be in there. I'm hoping that and some ice will do the trick. The only other thing I can think of if this doesn't work is to hit the pool. Somehow everything seems to heal better and faster when I'm swimming regularly.

I took extra time to go through a few hamstring specific stretches before heading out today. Today's run was off the schedule. I went out for 6 miles at an easy pace. That's about 2 laps around PRC. I made it through the first lap without really noticing anything at all. I was just caught up listening to my ipod. Towards the end of the second lap, I caught up to another employee in the middle of his run. What is it about guys that makes us want to run? I guess we're all just wild at heart. Without saying a word, we both instinctively broke out into a foot race to the top of the hill. He won by a couple steps. I told myself I'd run 5 miles further. Who knows. It felt good to race.

I finished the run with a light jog back to the ROC and some more stretching. Pasta for dinner and some great in-house entertainment made it a great night. I think I actually strained something watching shell break out into an impromptu robot listening to "God So Loved". If I'd had milk, it would have shot out my nose. I'm giving that 10 second section of her dance a 10 on the unintentional comedy scale and automatic entry into the "moments in life I'll always remember and tell the kids and grandkids." I can't believe how much I love this woman.