Marathon Mom

… to avoid public humiliation. This morning’s run sucked. I tried to do it on the treadmill. I said it was because today is trash day and I hate having to run past all the sanitation trucks, they are less than pleasantly fragrant. However, it really was because my Season 2 DVDs of Big Love had arrived from Netflix and I was anxious to see what our desperate polygamists were up to now!

MISTAKE!! I can not really run on a treadmill, as I just discovered but had somewhat suspected. I can’t seem to get a rhythm or stride going. Plus, I kept stopping to use the bathroom since I could. Twice in the first mile… the only mile. I was supposed to run three and it took me 20 minutes and 40 seconds to run ONE (and it stops the clock everytime I got off to pee, so that isn’t even factored into the time!)

And my knees were SCREAMING, like STOP THIS NOW CRAZY WOMAN! WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU THINKING?! (My knees like to express themselves in all caps. They’re very junior high that way.) When I pavement run, they stop hurting pretty quickly and I can just focus on the running. Maybe it’s a mental thing, I don’t know. But physically I just couldn’t do it.

And since I signed on for Tiny2bs’s mini slump buster challenge, I HAVE to do this run today. Or else post a picture of myself in a bathing suit not just on here, but on Facebook too. Uhm, no thanks. I’d much rather run! And since I was too late at that point to go run outside before work this morning, I now have to go run when I get home. Which I hate. Cause I prefer to collapse in a heap on my bed and watch bad summer programming on television. And now I have to go and be all athletic before I can do that. This is seriously cutting into my lazy-ass lifestyle!

As for today’s menu:

1st thing: nothing, kids ate all the bananas. Today was doomed before I even got out of bed!
Breakfast: sugar free oatmeal
Snack: Yoplait Light Cinnamon Roll Yogurt (seriously brilliant), Special K 90 calorie crackers
Lunch: big ole salad
Snack: veggies and 0 calorie ranch dressing
Dinner: either Gorton’s fish fillets (100 calories each) at work or a turkey burger at home (depends on my time)

UPDATE 6:45 PM

I am now sitting in bed with a bag of frozen broccoli on one knee and a bag of frozen california blend veggies on the other. I did my 2 miles when I got home. I wanted to do the full 3, but the knees weren’t having any of it. So I figured since I did do one mile this morning, I still get to count it as 3 miles today. Plus, I didn’t want today’s run to leave me crawling home. I had to take that into account.

But I did it! No bikini pics of me… yet!

Posted on August 4th, 2009 by firefly
Filed under: daily blathering