Running Her Mouth: 10 days/100 miles DAY TEN

Blog Mission, In Simple Terms

"I'm a road-runner, baby." Jr. Walker

I'm a road-runner running and writing a blog consisting of run~on sentences about running while sharing a deep concentration with the music in my ears, so that one day my boys, Elijah and Levi, will be able to read up and keep it real; Run~ons just may be the most effective way to convey my health seeking mission to people who don't know me or do, but then I pretty much like the idea that language/structure can be as playful as the subject itself, plus the reader may decide that running~on in a run~on sentence kind~of~way, might be beneficial to him or her that is right now, as of this moment here, basically undiscovered or unawakened.

The blog used to be heavily augmented by my facebook page which featured SOTD (song of the day), however I don't have the time to do that anymore; the blog has also taken on a very flexible schedule of it's own where I closely examine pretty much anything I want, in my own special way, something that piqued my interest during the previous month; if it piques yours, well, that would be pretty cool, too.
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Saturday, November 14, 2009

10 days/100 miles DAY TEN

Written Saturday PM:

I'm glad I'm done.
I'm glad I got a text from Toni this morning wanting to run the last 10 with me.
I'm glad she took me a different route. I ran the same route 9 times and ended up getting the scotch tape. There is something to doing a repeat route 9 days in a row. I ended up feeling like an automaton. But I think that was the whole idea of being on repeat and taking out the romance and reducing the mission to an effort. It was hard to watch the love for the sport dwindle to a series of motions but it was seriously necessary.
I'm glad I suffered through the achilles. Overuse is stupid. And overuse should never make you stop. Neglect can come in two forms, one is overuse and the other, underuse.
I'm glad my injury is due to overuse, though, because
I'm glad I don't have an injury caused by underuse. Underuse is stupid. Underuse will kill you. Disease is the voice of underuse.
I'm glad I'm done.

The biggest thing I take from this experiment is just knowing that I am really fit. And, yes, I believe my fitness has increased during these 10 days. I think I could run additional mileage on a single run with a day in between for recovery. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not worried about losing fitness as I address this tendon.
I am planning on making Thanksgiving morning my next long run, 20 miles to mom and dads before the heady meal.
Exhausted is how I feel. I've drifted off yesterday and today and I NEVER nap. And especially today, I cannot resist.
Baking a vegan carrot cake for my dad for his birthday. I will eat cake. And I will dance tonight. Today is a show day and all I want to do is dance. I'll run soon.
Thanks for reading! and for those of you out there who run, you know who you are, keep going!
Love,
Sarah