What the heck have I been doing?
I can’t remember what I did on Wednesday at all. I know I did something. I have no clue what it was. Good grief, I need a nap.
Yesterday, I ran outside. I really, really didn’t want to because I had to stay in town so that means going to the gym. I did NOT want to run on the ‘mill. So I changed at the gym and headed outside in the 147F heat to run my three miles. I carried a quart of Gatorade with me (which is really annoying and throws off my balance alot) so I wouldn’t die from the heat.
It was alot better than I thought it would be (temps in the mid to upper 80’s with a breeze), but the bad thing was the stench from all the dead animals on the road. This is a busy road and alot of animals get killed. Not enough scavengers to pick them up so they rot there. Constant dead rotting animal smell the entire time. Uh, at least I think it was the dead animals.
This goes back to a horrible story from grad school. We used a gated lot behind the lab to park in. You drove up and swiped your card and it opened. For a while, there was a dead animal smell near the gate when I opened the car window. There were some woods there near the gate and I thought there was something dead nearby. There was.
A girl was murdered and her body was dumped about 50′ from the gate. She was there for a month before a jogger found her.
Moving to a less morbid subject…
The running was pretty good. I held my form ok I think. Minimal whining from the shins. I didn’t wear the cho-pat strap and the ITB didn’t say a word about it. I found that the downhills had less effort if I kinda leaned back while I ran. At least it felt like I was leaning back, but it may have meant I was just more vertical. Anyway, it felt pretty good and I was able to hold my form better and control my speed at the same time.
Today is rest day. I’m not feeling well. My throat is still sore and I’m so tired I want to die. I need a really, really, big nap.
Oh, yeah, and I totally spaced on Chocolate Friday again, because I’m an idiot. No training to speak of and I still missed Chocolate Friday. Oh wait! Did you see my new chocolate link to Chocolate Alchemy? Very cool site with lots of very practical stuff for making REAL chocolate at home. That’s all I have. Sorry. :(
June 10th, 2005 13:02
ok…so you could SMELL the dead chick when you’d open your window?
Ew ew ew.
June 10th, 2005 13:57
Ick-and I thought smelling a stinky garbage can on my run yesterday was bad….
June 10th, 2005 14:23
It was you to whom I told the story about poking the dead cow with a stick, right?
Kind of creepy about the girl - did they get the murderer?
June 10th, 2005 14:36
ALright I need to hear Bill’s dead cow story!
Also..HAPPY? I included my email address and url.
:P
June 10th, 2005 15:10
*ignoring dead stuff* But heh, I think we have the same disease. I can’t remember things anymore. Now what was your post about? ;-)
June 10th, 2005 15:19
you can always tell the difference between a dead animal and a dead human. the smell is sweeter as a human rots. and not sweeter in a pleasant way…
June 10th, 2005 15:33
Eeew!!! I was so hoping for Chocolate Friday.
June 10th, 2005 18:43
and i thought 90 was hot, now 147 degrees-that’s tough. i am such a wuss.
June 10th, 2005 19:27
Yow, Jon. Take care of yourself.
June 10th, 2005 19:52
Man. I came by for Chocolate Friday. But got the stank of rotting corpses. Eh. It’ll do!
June 11th, 2005 03:24
Dammit Take Care of yourself JON,, I always feel so bad when your sick. ohh and the dead cow story,, did the stick go through and the smell come out? or was it liquid…. ???
Heather