Day 20, 345 To Go

January 20, 2013

Well, today didn't go as planned.  Isn't that always the case?  Even more so when you have children.  Have I mentioned that children are the bane of, well, everything!

I kid.  I love my children, then just get in the way of doing everything.  My plan was to run for 45 minutes, shower, write my blog, watch some TV and that was about it for my day.

Instead, I brought Derek, my 4 year old, to a play date.  It was sort of a play date for me too because I got to visit my friend Nikki who I have known since college and who fortuitously lives in Florida too.  She happens to live a 2 hour drive away, so our visits are not as frequent as I would like.  Alas, I spent a good portion of my time in the car.  But that wasn't the reason I didn't run long.  It was because on the way home, after stopping to get a Jamba Juice (ok, I got two, but since there are none close to me, I have to stock up in my belly) that the problem arose. 

The police blocked off 95 for some reason, and I had to get off and find my way in the middle of what looked like nowhere.  After two Jamba Juices, I kind of had to pee really bad already.  So, it probably took me close to an additional hour to get home (there was my run) and my bladder exploded.  BOOM!!

It didn't really explode, but I bet it would make a cool sound if it did.  Not so much a BOOM but more of a SPLAOOSH!

Derek had fallen asleep in the car, so by the time I extricated him and all his various shoes, electronics (you can't take children in the car without some sort of electronic equipment like an iPad these days...Zeus forbid) and got him ready for bed, it was well past 8:00pm.  I'd been sitting for at least 5 hours in my car already, so I decided to just run 15 minutes.

Boooo!

So, Honey and I went out for our nice little run.  Honey should have stayed home since the last time she ran, her Uterus said, "Try that again, missy, before I'm healed, and I'll torture you all night with spasms of pain!"

And it did.

But, she is determined to run again tonight.  She is a masochist...but then again, aren't most runners at some point or another?  I think we are.

Here are our numbers:

Time: 15:00

Distance: 1.16 miles

Pace: 12:55/m

Max Pace: 10:02/m

Calories: 115

Avg HR: 106

Max HR: 118

Today, I will do my 45 min run.  It is only a 5 min increase since last week which is not a lot.  Normally, you should not increase your mileage or time of running by more than 10% every week.  I ran 130 minutes last week so I could increase my time by 13 minutes this week.  I'm being conservative since I won't get a day off.  It is more than enough because if I only increase my long run by 5 minutes every week, by the end of the year I'd be running for 290 minutes (just shy of 5 hours!) on Sunday, and that isn't really practical unless I decided to be an ultra marathoner!  Um, no!  Speaking of masochists!  I have all the respect in the world for them, I just don't think I am capable of that.

Now, its time to work, assuming my computer and network cooperate, which it has not done thus far.

Run for life!