I was looking forward to a nice and easy recovery run today. I was trashed after yesterday’s workout and other than mall walking with the kids and my mommy, I laid my lazy butt on the couch most of the day and watched cartoons (and of course multiple episodes of ‘The Office’- Rob and I have become a bit obsessed, plus I am a huge Mindy Kaling fan!).
My appetite still isn’t quite back, and when that happens I eat crappy. Its easier to down chocolate, trail mix and gluten free rice chex when you’re not hungry than to eat loads of green stuff (which I normally do). My mom also brought in some delish cocoa dusted almonds that I annihilated despite my lack of hunger, so I’m sure that I at least got some calories in me, regardless of their nutritional quality.
Today was easy peasy. I am working with a coach, which is wonderful, but this seemed ultra slow and boring to me. I guess that’s the purpose of a recovery run, and I’m realizing I never really used to recover on recovery runs. I had to do these on the treadmill early this morning, listening to Ace & TJ talk about random things like what makes you say “Hell yeah?!” (Wanna watch reruns of the Office? Hell yeah!). Most of the talk show centered around guys tweeting in “yoga pants on campus”. Haha. Yeah. Sooo, that’s what I did for an hour and forty minutes. That and read “Get Rock Hard Abs” (or something of the sort) in Men’s Fitness Magazine, which lasted approximately .7 miles, and I rendered it useless, throwing it in the floor beside me.
I warmed up the first .5 mile with incline walk then jog. I used to think these kind of runs were useless… but am learning to go easy on the easy days and really hard on the hard days. No more of this one speed stuff day in and day out.
Southern Mother Runner 