Well, that was a logical solution...

[sarahmichelef]

For the first time since I started running, this afternoon I really just didn't want to.  The motivation was very much lacking.  But it was 60 degrees and sunny, and tomorrow it's supposed to be cooler and rainy, so I had a harder time justifying NOT going outside.

So I went, I started running.  My shambling, zombie run.  The one that on a normal day moves me at the rate of about an 11.5 minute mile.  Except today it moved me at about a 10.2 minute mile, for 2.25 miles.  Yeah, the answer to "I don't want to run" is "go and run further than you've run probably in 15 years".  We'll see how it feels tomorrow - I'd done one 2 mile run a couple of weeks ago, so it's not that drastically more than I'd done previously.

Running in Elmwood Village is dangerous, too.  Makes me want to move out of our nearly-suburban neighborhood down where it's hip and cool.  And then I remember that we are not hip and cool and that I like having a garage.  So I'll stick to running there and fantasizing.  (meneleth, I've taken to running various routes in the square described by Summer, Richmond, Utica (or sometimes as far North as Ferry), and Delaware (or maybe another block east to Linwood).)

Post-run, I lifted weights and then did 13 minutes on the recumbent bike.  Yay, me!

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Comments

[meneleth.livejournal.com]

Yeah Elmwood is a neat area to VISIT. I'm on Summer between Elmwood and Delaware, so if you're going up that way, look for the large Tudor mansion about a block up from Elmwood. That's my office. *Much* better than cubicles in a brick box! I walk over to Symphony Circle often on my lunch hours (Summer-Elmwood-North-Richmond-Summer). Aren't the flowering trees gorgeous right now?

[alphasarah.livejournal.com]

I do love that building! I actually wondered today if that was where you were, as it definitely seems to be inhabited by lawyerly types. ;^) The flowering trees are especially fun to duck when they hang heavy over the sidewalks. :^D