Tired is When You Look Forward to Jogging!
Sounds weird, right? Well, I would normally think the same thing, but tonight was different. Tonight was our Tuesday "track night" at Stanford. For the past two weeks we've spent tuesdays learning about stretching, strengthening our "core" and then running a few laps around the track (6 to be exact). Ok, I'm not saying that working our "core" was an easy task (just read our blog post from a couple tuesdays back ;) But, maybe it became a little routine. We can't have that now, right? Those are to be done on our own, in between the workouts. Tonight... we ran. First it's "high knees" through the straight-away, then jog around the corner, only to do butt-kicks through the next straight-away. You made it? Now "skip" through the straight-away, jog, "high-skip" the next straight-away, jog... How about some lunges down the straight-away this time... SLOWLY (this is not a race, mind you!) All I remember is this went on for exactly 1 hour and 25 minutes straight! (would have been 30 minutes but I found a way to jog right off the track and into a bathroom. Not sure anyone noticed, except maybe Eileen, but she doesn't count, right?)
At the end of the night I found that the 6 miles we did this past weekend was for real. I mean, we may not have run 6 miles around the track tonight, but it was the same hour and 20 minutes that that took in comparison, and tonight, the jogging was the easy part! Lunges, side-steps, grapevines, butt-kicks, twisted sisters?... whatever came our way, we always had just normal jogging to look forward to. Suddenly it became all too clear: THEY WANT TO PUSH YOU ON THE STRAIGHT-AWAYS SO YOU LOOK AT JOGGING AS THE EASY PART! HAHA I get it. These coaches are smart. Thanks for the lesson. Next thing we know, 13.1 miles will be nothing. I may be looking forward to a good shower right now, but I'm thinking 8 miles could be a little easier than I originally thought, by next week. We'll see!
