Boy! What a great day Saturday! It was like darned near perfect weather!! I was so happy to do my first five and six miles ever in my life!! (Breaking records weekly, now...)
So I get home at around 11am on Saturday and my wife asks me if I have any energy left to do some projects around the house. I told her, "If I go now, otherwise, if I sit down for a while, it's all over!" So she began to lead me outdoors to start some pruning and wouldn't you know it? Five hours and one landscape makeover later, Me, my wife, and my son are sunburned, exhausted, and ready to pass out! I hardly ever do that much yardwork in one day even WITHOUT running six miles earlier in the day. What in tarnation was I thinking??? Let's just say that you could have put me in a complete body cast on Sunday because that's how stiff I was!! My wife and I couldn't even stand up and sit down in church!
So, for future reference, if after running on Saturdays you hear me say something like "I've got to go do some things around the house.", take the nearest baseball bat and swat it upside my head!
Excuse me now, it's time for me to take my next dose of biofreeze and ibuprofen.........;)
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I feel your pain! I also know the dilemna - if I stop, I won't start again and if I keep going, I'll keep going and going and going...
Who knew you'd actually get MORE done when you are training for a marathon??? It's crazy!
That's why I don't have any flowers planted around my house. Aside from not having the "gardening" gene (everything plant I've owned died, even cactus); I don't care to do all that work. I think I rather do a marathon!
OMG I laughed out loud with your body cast comment...that is how I am feeling about now after the 7 mile wog today. I ran more than I usually do today and I am pretty much wiped out. I had the wheezing thing too when I started doing the intervals about 2 wks. ago. I find if I run longer than a minute, I wheeze. Never wheezed in my life. When I start wheezing really badly, I walk and it goes away. There may be a lot of MM walkers in Chicago!
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