(warning: long and rambling)
slow as molasses.
ran the rapist loop (more on that later) with jonathan (jp) with a little bit added in to make it a full 5k. i didn't get to stretch beforehand because he was ready to go when i got to his house. excuse me for showing up at 7:31 when i said i'd be there at 7:30. i can't help it that my speech class ran late because we got in an argument about corparal punishment. sheesh. anyways, my calves were hurting as they didn't get stretched. i tend to think that stretching is overrated and don't really do much of it at all. calves is the one thing that i try to get very quickly though... stupid, kp. i know for next time. i didn't stop and stretch them during the run. i figured if i couldn't tough it out for 3 miles, i have no business being out there. i was super slow but really picked it up the last .20 or so (in preparation for my dual with RAD). i was at a 7:20ish pace for that and was pleased. this loop has one nice downhill section that i somehow manage to run better than jp every time. his long legs must slow him down??? because the rest of the time he is literally running circles around me (he'll run ahead and then run back to me and run a circle around me and then run back ahead. jerk.) we saw the biggest dog i've ever seen in my life on the run tonight. this thing was massive! i seriously wanted to stop and play with him. he seemed like a sweetie. thankfully, jp's lab, polo, didn't run with us tonight like he normally does. he doesn't wear a leash and is quite hyper... those two would've been interesting. oh yea, and we saw a coyote... i'm glad jp was there, otherwise i would have freaked!
okay... the "rapist" loop:
first of all, i didn't see the mean dog that barked at me last time. we ran through the same cotton field, so i guess he must've been in the house. jp said he has come across him before too... not a nice dog. moving on - so i was telling jp about how i ran our loop by myself the other night at like 8:30pm. it was definitely pitch black out other than my bobbing headlamp. he absolutely could not believe i ran that alone at night... he doesn't even do that! and, when he runs it alone during the day he always carries a pocket knife with him! i don't even own a pocket knife!!! please understand that this is not a bad area in any way. it is just in the country and one section of it is very secluded - no houses or street lights and it is heavily wooded on both sides of the road. he was telling me that i definitely shouldn't run the loop alone at night, which i agree with. but, i think it is still okay during the day. jp was telling me about how he had seen trucks parked up there before doing who knows what (drug deals, killing people, i don't want to know...) so that is why he was apprehensive of me being up there alone. he was running probably 30 or 40 feet in front of me when he suddenly turned around and ran back to me and then ran beside me the whole time. there was a car on the secluded street! (insert dramatic music here...) i thought it was very nice of him to be all protective of me; what a gentleman. i told him that it was probably just some teenagers "parking" which then made him tell me a story about when he dated my good friend in high school and they went "parking" up there... ugh, i didn't want to know that! anyways, nothing happened with the car. i couldn't even see anyone in there although the sun was quickly setting and it was pretty much impossible to see anything at that point. we made it home safe and sound. he did manage to make me very nervous about running up there though. thanks a lot...
so now i need to buy pepper spray and a pocket knife. this stuff is going to weigh me down y'all!
that's my story and i'm sticking to it.
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pu, pu,su challenge:
push-ups: 15x7
pull-ups: nada
sit-ups: 50x2, 25x2 | 