Pure Dread

Update: I did indeed bang out 4 miles on the treadmill during lunch. And then was confronted with an open lab of cadavers as I was walking back to the office. GAG! The horrors of working in a medical environment when you are totally grossed out by the inside of the human body.

Do you ever just dread a run? For days on end? I needed to bang out 4 miles on Sunday. However, with feet of snow blanketing Philadelphia and making many of the sidewalks treacherous, I knew an outdoor run wasn’t happening. A friend recently ruined her knee after hitting a bad patch of ice, so I know that risking an injury for one run flat out isn’t worth it.

So that left me with waiting until Monday for my 4-miler. Now here is where it gets annoyingly complicated. My car is snowed in on the street—it’s going nowhere. Not a problem—I can take the subway to the work shuttle and ride that in. Both of these options are less fun when you are saddled with all your workout gear, your lunch, your work bag and your coffee. 

I also need to do this run during lunch because the scramble for a treadmill after 5 p.m. is not doable when I must rely on public transportation. I almost got left on Friday night after my workout!

I am just not in the mood for a lunchtime run. My motivation is sorely lacking.

Outdoor Bliss

Oh my gosh, I ran outside! Yes, you read that correctly. It only took me, oh, 24 days into the new year to run outside. However, it was a group run so I still haven’t broken out the Garmin. I try to go electronics-free when I run with others. It was a balmy 37 degrees during our evening run. Our meeting point was about a half-mile from my apartment, so I got in a nice warm up then and a cool-down on the way home. So all in all it was a little over 4 miles of running.

And I kinda forgot running outside can be hard. I had trouble catching my breath a few times and my throat felt too dry and cold to swallow a few times. But I am so glad I finally broke out of the gym.

However, as you may have heard, Philadelphia was by a pretty intense snowstorm, so we’ve got about 16 inches of the white stuff on the ground plus 3 inches of ice that won’t come off the sidewalks or roads. So my Friday night will consist of 3 miles on the ‘mill and 30 minutes of bike riding.

Happy Weekend!