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July 16, 2005
Water Babies
This has been a long morning. I woke up at 7 and was out running by 7:30. There is a trail near my house I heard about a while ago and have wanted to run on for years. However, I didn’t know its exact location until I got back to DC this summer. After running by the entrance to it a few times I finally noticed it. Unfortunately, a bazillion people have told me over the years that it’s a “sketchy” trail and I shouldn’t run on it alone. But I ALWAYS run alone. So this morning I went running and I decided I would just check it out and see what it looked like. I was on the trail for maybe 1 minute before turning around and heading back to the street. I probably would have stayed if I hadn’t gotten so many warnings from people. However, the warnings coupled with the fact that the trail was definitely secluded (even though we were right near civilization once you were off of the actual trail) spooked me. I HATE bad people!! I feel like I should be able to run wherever I want!!!
I ran for a total of 49:00 minutes. I ended up heading downhill to run along the Potomac on another path that someone warned me years ago not to run on alone but is actually totally fine and then ran back uphill home. My legs were tired from Thursday. It was hot and humid. The uphill home was killer. I was moving slowly. All of that doesn’t really bother me too much today for some reason. It’s the first summer I have been able to run in a couple of years b/c of the toe surgeries that usually mark the start of summer for me :)
Then I ate an orange and some pretzels. I wasn’t really hungry since I felt so disgusting from the heat and humidity but I drank a LOT of water and was worried about drinking too much without having anything else. Then I procrastinated for a few minutes before heading to the pool to do the swimming I was supposed to do yesterday. I just swam pretty casually for 30ish minutes. I practiced some flip turns. Those were not too good at all. I missed the wall once. I got bored and did some backstroke for fun. (I usually only do crawl b/c I can’t do breaststroke b/c of my knee). I was kind of just playing in the water. I was circle swimming with 2 other people and it was disastrous. I have never had it go so badly before. We were all different speeds so the guy kept passing me every few laps. I was trying to pass the other woman but that was hard to do w/ the guy in the other lane and the woman was not really cooperating and letting me pass her. Then the guy was doing intervals so I was never sure if he was resting or about to jump back in. I think we all annoyed each other quite honestly.
There was also a water babies class going on at the pool that was taking up most of the lanes. There were babies and kids ALL OVER the pool and locker room. I will admit they were cute and it’s great their parents are introducing them to an active lifestyle…but they needed SO much attention from their parents at every single moment. They didn’t want to shower, they didn’t want to use soap, they didn’t want to get dressed, they wanted to know why girls and boys looked different (there were young boys in the women’s locker room b/c they were with their mothers). I had to laugh at the last question but I was ready to get out of there!
Posted by Audrey at July 16, 2005 12:22 PM
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Can you teach me flip turns when we get back to Boston? You are quite the swimmer now! I, on the other hand, am going to have to start from scratch in September.
Posted by: becky at July 18, 2005 04:25 PM