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Morning! I think my dog Mia inhaled a grass seed yesterday, so I'm waiting around for the vet to open so I can get her in. She is waiting around for breakfast, which she won't be getting in case they need to sedate her. Actually, she's under my desk at the moment, which she never does.
Yesterday I was the slowest one at the social run, so that's two days in a row. I did have a group running with me, but I hated the feeling like they'd all be running faster if I weren't there! Part of the deal is that there weren't a lot of people there with the heat. Also, I was feeling yesterday's track workout. Oh well, there are going to be days like that, right?
If everything goes smoothly today, I'll get in to the vet, get my classroom cleaned out, and run 4 recovery miles. We will see, though.
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Nothing new here. Still sick. I'll go to the doctor if I'm not better by Monday but I usually like to give my body at least a week to get a handle on things. I saw Jurassic World last night with DH because his firm had a private screening - with unlimited free movie food - certainly what I deserve having run approximately 3 miles this week It was okay and would certainly be scary to me at 8. I think that's how old I was when the original Jurassic Park came out in theaters.
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Morning. I have 5 recovery miles tonight.
Damaris
Another toasty morning in Texas, but I did have a slight breeze so that helped. 8 done this morning.
Zel I'm always the slowest person at my group practice.
Singer who runs a smidge
Morning, Penguins!! Our chorus had a noon gig yesterday, so I took the day off work, which was quite nice. Although I was doing some long-distance troubleshooting, so I was probably communicating as much with work peeps as if I'd been there! More troubleshooting today, oh well. PT is still going well, although my knee pain seems to have kind of plateaued at "not bad at all, but still there." Le sigh ...Zelanie -- hope everything goes smoothly today!!sapf -- sorry you're still feeling icky!!Docket -- have a good 5!!PAD -- woo-hoo for your breezy 8!!
When it's all said and done, no one remembers how far we have run. The only thing that matters is how we have loved.
PAD- You are right, I was just having a whiny moment I guess.
Mia is spending the day at the vet so they can sedate her and try to get the grass seed out. If they can't, then we will need to go to the University vet clinic.
Lauren - read about your kitty. I'm sorry.
Z - how can you tell your dog inhaled a grass seed? Coughing? I hope Zoe is okay. Is school finished?
sapf - I hope you get over your cold soon.
D - good luck with your recovery this evening.
PAD - good job on the early miles.
HM - I hope you get caught up at work. Not feeling real pain is sometimes as good as it gets. It's a lot better than it used to be anyway.
AFM: Very hot today (temps in the 90's, DP of 68) so I'll do a few miles on the TM later. I haven't run since Sunday. We got caught in some severe thunderstorms (including a tornado warning in our area) on Monday as we drove north and they continued off and on all day Tuesday, so we didn't head out on our 3 day backpack trip as planned. Instead we ended up combining trail clearing with an overnight backpack trip. Not many miles, but clearing downed branches from the trail and lopping branches, saplings and briars as we hiked was a very good workout.
Morning penguins
I don't go to group runs but if I did, I would be the slowest one too and I'm much slower than Zel.
I did 4.3 M this morning. I'm still doing intervals of 2 mins run 1 min walk. Will move up to 3:1 next week.
TGIF
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Traci
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Morning pens. Kitty is hanging in there - prednisone seems to have perked her up a bit. I'm finally done crying my eyes out every day, just making the most of whatever time we have left.
I ended up at work much longer than I had planned yesterday so another rest day. That makes THREE of those this week! Unheard of! D:
Ran 10 with quality this morning - 2 mile warmup, 1 mile at tempo on the road in 8:15, about a minute jog right into 6x800 on the track with full lap recoveries. I was worried that I'd be slow after running exactly one workout post-race, and that was nearly a month ago at this point, but was pleasantly surprised - guess running a bunch of miles this spring is doing what it's supposed to do! First 800 I screwed up by hitting stop instead of lap at the start but I estimate that it was ~3:40, the rest of them were 3:37, 3:38, 3:40, 3:37, 3:30-high. That last one I had trouble gauging my effort since I surged past 2 separate people in the first 100 meters who decided that walking/slow jogging in lane 1 was a good idea - felt like I was moving in slow motion the first half of the second lap.
Zel - hope they can get the grass seed out! Sounds very uncomfortable, poor pup D:
Amen, sistah!!
Ginny, she was playing in the tall grass yesterday evening with DD, and when she came out, she was sneezing hard. Hard enough to make her nose bleed. Them she calmed down until all the vets closed last night. Since then, she's been having major sneezing fits about once or twice an hour. She sneezes so hard that she hits her head on the floor.
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Ran 3 easy miles in new shoes I got last night (Brooks Defyance). Thought they were great in the store but didn't feel so great while running may need to take them back and try something else.
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Oh man. Big deep breaths. Kitty has been on pred for 24 hours and she's acting OK, she was before anyway, but breathing still looks difficult for her. Vet does not have an appointment today. Unless she magically looks less sad when I get up tomorrow morning, I will be sending my sweet girl to rest at 11:45 AM tomorrow morning. I just can't keep playing guessing games about whether she's really ready or not when it's hard to watch her breathe after walking across the room, and though it hurts immensely I would rather let her go peacefully a few days early than force her to hang on a few days too long and have regrets.
Lauren, so sorry. I think you are doing the right thing for her. And I've had the experience of "too early" and "too late" with my pets, and too late was much worse.