Yesterday was a rest day. I hadn't planned it that way originally, but ended up having to go with it due to work issues and extreme hunger. Not to worry, my planned rest day on Friday will now be a workout day. All is balanced!
Danielle (my most fabulous running partner) and I snuck out of lab this afternoon for quick run. The major pro of this run was that it was approximately 33 degrees when we left. This may not seem like a pro to my CA friends, but this is the warmest temp we've seen in WEEKS. Totally beats 20 degrees at 6am, which is when we typically run. So, the above freezing temperature was a major plus. Unfortunately, this was matched by a con... a yellow air day. For those of you unfamiliar with SLC inversions, a yellow air day isn't as bad as a red air day, but you still feel like you're smoking a pack of cigarettes while you run... yum! All in all, we were pretty pleased with ourselves for getting in an afternoon run while our experiments were running themselves in the lab. Danielle's Garmin battery crapped out about a 1/2 mile into the run, so we're not sure exactly what our distance was, but gmap-pedometer puts it at somewhere around 3.5 miles. Not bad for a shitty air quality day!
For me, it was a personal success. I haven't run since Dec. 31st (pre-death bug), so I wasn't super optimistic about my run. As I said to Danielle, it wasn't nearly as bad as it could have been having taken 2 weeks off! And, super bonus, I didn't cough up a lung while out there, which is really saying something : )
Gotta love small victories!
~Ash
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