The title sounds far more dramatic than the reality of yesterdays run.
And, as you can tell from that sentence, I'm a day late in posting. What can I say, I'm a mother, wife, and I hold a full time job. Sometimes I just run out of time.
Lets start at the beginning, shall we?
It was a fairly mild day. There was a chill in the air, but it was a normal, 5am chill. Not the chill of post rain or wind. The sky was overcast, leading me to believe that it would rain that day. I started my run as usual, setting my phone up so the pedometer would run, then the c25k app would run, then starting my music. I thought I would do something a bit different and go with the most often played, playlist. First off it's the Dresden Dolls. Not surprising that is a most often played song.
Into the first round of running, I immediately feel my shins. I'm not sure what to do to avoid that type of pain. Now, this isn't necessary the start of shin splints. About ten years ago I got tendinitis in the front of my legs from standing and walking for 12 hour shifts while wearing steel toed shoes. It's an irritation that creeps up every now and then. The worst being when the heal of my shoe broke one day and I did the splits down the staircase at work.
So, I figure, it's probably just that acting up, and I just need to work on stretching that muscle better. But it does make for an irritating run.
Onward I go. I've made it to the end of the trail, and turned around to head back. I hit a walk cycle just as Nelson Eddie's starts to sing the bobcat song. I'm going to go ahead and assume that no one reading this has any clue what that is, so here is a link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wDmyPBXK7k
Yes, I have an eclectic taste in music. Partway through the walk cycle, a rooster crows just as I pass the property it lives on. So I can say, that on June 16, 2014, the rooster crowed at 5:15 AM MST
On I went. Now someone apperently felt the great need to water the dirt road this day, and it was a muddy mess. I had walked through it the first time, slipping a bit. I hit that patch of road in a run cycle, so rather than slipping in the mud and twisting something, I decided to run through the grassy area next to it. That grass is over knee high on me, thus, I was high kneeing it through the grass (see, I told you it wasn't that exciting)
I was slower on this run then I was on Saturday. I think that was in most part because rather then listening to my "workout" playlist, I listed to my most listened, and those aren't all the fastest of songs. I plan to create a new playlist, but that is one of those things I need to find time for. In the meantime I shall return to the workout playlist. Perhaps I will post that in an upcoming blog post. And of course I'll have to follow that up with whatever new playlist I make.
Strangely enough, the last song to play as I was walking into my house was another Dresden Dolls song.
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