three things thursday
1. Maybe for the first time in my life, I ran three days in a row this week. IN A ROW, you guys. My injury-prone ass usually doesn't even like two days in a row. Actually, the best thing is if I go out and run and then climb directly in a sensory deprivation chamber full of healing blue light - shit, wait, no light in the chamber - until at least 48 hours have passed. And I still would somehow manage to break something. Or a limb would fall off or I'd get hit by a meteor (very common running injury). The word you're looking for here is ANYWAY....I ran easy on Monday, track on Tuesday, easy on Wednesday, and I feel basically like a normal human being. None of my limbs have cracked and fallen off. Let's hope this continues as I have my long run planned for tomorrow morning and I'm actually really looking forward to it.
2. However, I haven't been in the pool for almost 2 weeks, and since it was raining and I didn't want to get wet couldn't ride, I got back in this morning. WOW, does that fitness die off quick. After spending the first few 100s flailing around like a drunk hippopotamus, I decided that the best thing to do to distract myself from forgetting how to move forward in the water was to do drills. So I did 2000 yards of drills (only cracked my head on the bottom of the pool during a flip-turn once FTW) and then got out. You don't want to overdo these things. But I couldn't believe how much my body had forgotten in two weeks. It's almost as bad as that time last winter when I took an entire month off of cycling and lost all my strength, power, and speed. WTF? Fitness is stupid.
3. Girls Gone Wild NYC ended up being rescheduled for this weekend - the Washington, DC edition - and I'm so happy about it, although my liver is oddly producing little white flags and leaving them all over the place. Items on the itinerary currently include: dinner, squealing, brunch, giggling, drunk baking, drunk spectating, not-drunk pacing this pink girl, pillow fights, a Halloween bar crawl and visiting the Mall in a raging snowstorm (seriously, DC, you're a hot mess). I couldn't be more excited about the massive amount of bloggers redheads runners descending on my city for the weekend and hope to get to see everyone! It looks like we're putting together a brunch for Saturday morning so drop me a note if you'd like to be part of that. Also, you should probably just go ahead and mute my twitter feed now.
Have a great Thursday, everyone! If you are running MCM, we'll be cheering around the 22-mile mark along with the rest of humanity, so just look for the girls wearing dark glasses and slamming electrolyte-replacement drinks after a long night of table-dancing studying in the library.
