run the pain away

so yesterday was a blah day. i get a little too passionate about my favorite sports teams. the washington capitals lost game 7 in the playoffs. they were the #1 team in the nhl, breaking and making all sorts of records this season, and lost to a 16th seeded team. i know it's silly, but i love my teams. when you put a lot of emotion into something, even something as silly as a sports team, you can feel sort of empty when it goes away. i was so glad i went to the gym last night. i ran a hard 4 miles and did leg weights and felt so much better afterward. needed to get my perspective back!! i actually picked a treadmill with a tv attached. it was weird to watch something so close but i got used to it. i had fun watching the lsu vs ga girls softball game.

my body has been very used to running 20 miles a week since the start of this year; over the past few weeks i am easing up to 25 miles a week. in a few weeks, the schedule will have me run about 30 miles a week. last spring and early summer i averaged about 15-20 miles a week, then jumped into training. perhaps not having a better base made me more prone to injury during training. who knows. i'm just trying my best to do everything i can to be fully ready for training this time around.