So... this evening's blog is about a few things... First of all, one of our Gardenia bushes has a bloom that's opening! This is very exciting to me... and DEFINITELY exciting to my wife. I bought a bunch of Gardenias to plant around our house just for her because I know how much she loves them. They probably even hold a special place in her heart because I know that they had some at her parents place where she grew up. So, needless to say... this means more to us than just some flower bud.
Today, we jogged 16miles. We've done that before. In fact, last Saturday we jogged 18miles for our training.
I switched up my nutrition today which seemed to work for me. Instead of Gatorade I used gels, electrolyte pills and H2O (however I did use gatorade at the cooler stops along the way). The biggest things working against me is that ALL WEEK I have been thinking we were going to jog 14 miles... NOT 16. With SO MUCH of running being mental for me... it really through a monkey wrench into things. (Not to mention that it wasn't a straight 16mile loop either, but rather an 8 mile loop...twice). BLECH!!!!
The other thing working against me? An incredibly tight left leg - hamstrings, quads, etc. Of course the tightest thing was my IT band. It felt like a was an upright bass with a string that was tuned to high. One wrong pluck and it might break... ;-)
My wife was steller though. I may have taken more bathroom breaks than she, but regardless she finished well before me. For a good patch of the course I was running behind her and she was all I could focus on. I kept my eyes on the one I love and chased after her! I finally caught up, and after an ice bath that was WAY too cold, we settled in for a good, long nap this afternoon.
~G
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