One long week

Man, it feels like forever since I've posted. This has been one long week short on sleep and running, and long on work. I think I've mentioned before this is my 'budget season', but I swear the stupid budget is the only thing I've worked on since I started this retarded job in May. I hate budgets and numbers and I really don't want to do anything work related anymore. So, all this to say most days this week I worked 10-13 hour days and that doesn't leave a lot of time for anything else, does it??? I did fit in a 5 mile run Tues night. I didn't get out 'til late, and Brent was still not up to running with his injuries. I gave Brent my path plan and an estimated finish time so he'd know when to start the rescue mission if I never showed back up. It was a really tough 5-miler, I was a full two minutes slower than my time on last Tuesday. With all the stress I just didn't have the energy to give the pavement a proper spanking, I was just glad to be moving and not sitting on my rear staring at a computer screen. There weren't very many people out that late, but an albino frog did cross my path! After the snake incident from Sunday's run it nearly gave me a heart attack!!! That's the only run I've had this week, and I haven't had a chance to do any other exercise outside of my morning walks with Pippin.

We have a 15K tomorrow, so I didn't want to log a lot of miles this week, but I would have liked a 4-miler yesterday and some other light aerobics/yoga to keep me stretched out and stress free. When I work like this I also don't eat right, so I don't think tomorrow's run will be anything for the record books. I tried to plan accordingly (since I knew this week would be hell) so several days I brought left-overs in so we'd have something semi-healthy to shove down during a quick lunch break. I really haven't been too bad until today, when there were a lot of sweets brought in for someone's birthday. The damage ended up at one small piece of cake, 3 or 4 cookies, and a brownie. Back in the day I would have had quite a few additional cookies. And I had two cookies last night. Oh yeah, and a doughnut this morning. It just didn't do anything for me, I don't think I'll eat them again. I used to eat like 6 of them, and the one I ate this morning felt like it weighed 100 pounds in my stomach. I love how that stuff really grosses me out now!!

Well, time to get some rest (finally) and eat something healthy for tomorrow morning's run. Wish us luck!!

Rachel

Exercise log-
Tues - 1 mile am walk with Pippin & Brent, 5 mile run, 20 minutes yoga/pilates (focus:spine)
Wed - 1 mile am walk with Pippin
Thurs - 1 mile am walk with Pippin & Brent
Fri - 1 mile am walk with Pippin