Days Off

Man after the long run, and the excessive heat of Virginia summers, I could not get my act together to run. Plus, being essentially a lazy man, I needed a day off. So I took off Saturday. I was OK with that one. Then Sunday rolled around. I had trouble getting out of bed. Thus the 10:30 wake up time. I normally drag myself out of bed around 5:30, or so.

Clearly I was tired. And of course this was the day that my knee really felt bad. So I waited and waited for my run. When I finally got ready to go for the run, I had another setback. Let me back of up a second. I as discussed in a previous post, I got the Nike Plus. Well, I found that one time while on the run if you hit it during your run the Nike plus will not log in some part of your run. So I lost about 3/4 of a mile of a run. I was mad, 3/4 of a mile on a 5 mile run is a lot. If it were a 20 mile run, I would not be so upset but this was important to have it logged.

Also, I was very close to having completed 100 miles since the purchase of my Nike Plus. This was a milestone for me and I wanted to run the last 5 miles to 100 on my Nike Plus. Then my Ipod stopped functioning. It froze up and I knew that I had to let it run itself out, and then recharge it. Well that entire process takes about 2 - 3 hours.
So back to Sunday. It was 6:00pm. So I hoped that I would be able to get my act together. It didn't pan out. It started getting dark, and I was getting discouraged, I didn't realize how important it was to me to be able to run. Read: Someone found a new drug. I threw in the towel when at 9:00 it was finally dark and there was no way that I would be able to run my entire 5 miles and subsequently didn't run at all.

There were a lot of thoughts running through my head. Will I be able to run again? Will I be able to run the Marathon? Is this going to the former setback again? (to be discussed in subsequent posts) Is my body built for long runs? This is how I felt on Sunday night.