I have to get up and run today. Otherwise, today would be 3 days without any significant workouts. Or not. You'll decide based on what you read below.
Friday, I squeezed in a mile run. Because although I was so busy, I didn't want to not make my weekly mileage goal and I was just a mile off. So I ran 1.2 miles just to keep the Runkeeper app hAPPy!
No workouts on Saturday morning because I observe the Sabbath (I'm Seventh-day Adventist) and Saturday mornings are for church and religious activities. When I got home after sunset, it was so cold, and what started as a drizzle became some serious snow-flurries-storm. It was pretty to watch through the window but I couldn't envision myself running in it. Although I did keep myself pretty busy SURFing the 'net and reading blogs
No workouts on Saturday morning because I observe the Sabbath (I'm Seventh-day Adventist) and Saturday mornings are for church and religious activities. When I got home after sunset, it was so cold, and what started as a drizzle became some serious snow-flurries-storm. It was pretty to watch through the window but I couldn't envision myself running in it. Although I did keep myself pretty busy SURFing the 'net and reading blogs
I had planned to go to Brooklyn to visit my friend's church on Sunday morning but my plan was to get up really early and squeeze in a short run before I had to go. I woke up to a cold apartment, temperatures of 24 degrees F (minus 5 degrees C) and I just turned the alarm off and snuggled up in bed. I know I can't keep doing this because it is still just November and if I am going to keep running during winter, cold weather comes with the territory (cold weather IS the territory) but that didn't really permeate my consciousness then. But I figured I burned lots of calories in the mad dashes to and from places of shelter. Like my sprint across 125th Street and Lenox Avenue at 8:30 a..m. to catch the light before it changed. If there had been an Olympic judge standing around with his stopwatch, I just might have been named an official challenger for Usain Bolt's record.
Sunday afternoon, I returned for a pre-Thanksgiving dinner at my church and then home to watch my NY Giants lose a home game against the Cowboys.
That broke my heart but it was repaired later with Manning-Brady-14, where Peyton's Broncos scored 24 unanswered first-half points followed by Tom Brady's Patriots scoring 24 unanswered second-half points. I figured the quick flip-flopping of my heart, alternately loving Brady, then Peyton, then Brady again, I figured that was enough of a metabolism booster and workout for anyone. And since the game went to overtime, that was like one of those endurance-building Sunday long runs. haha.
Cut to today. Monday morning. It's just as cold as it was yesterday. But I am going to do it.
I have to do it.
Must. Run. Today.... Will. Run. Today.
Going to layer up. Talk to you later.
Layer. Later.
That broke my heart but it was repaired later with Manning-Brady-14, where Peyton's Broncos scored 24 unanswered first-half points followed by Tom Brady's Patriots scoring 24 unanswered second-half points. I figured the quick flip-flopping of my heart, alternately loving Brady, then Peyton, then Brady again, I figured that was enough of a metabolism booster and workout for anyone. And since the game went to overtime, that was like one of those endurance-building Sunday long runs. haha.
Cut to today. Monday morning. It's just as cold as it was yesterday. But I am going to do it.
I have to do it.
Must. Run. Today.... Will. Run. Today.
Going to layer up. Talk to you later.
Layer. Later.