Monday, 2/17
Now's that weird time where I try to sort out a taper. I have a general plan used at most if not all lead ups to the marathon, but have I found my perfect one? The one I can say, "This is the final piece to the puzzle," nah.
Wrote a lot. Opted out of all breaks because of the flow of work and writing. Only got to a run after work, where there was more than an hour of daylight to savor - we're on the other side! It was fingertip-cold; listened to athlete interviews about the Trials. What I like about the culture of today is the sharing of information & opinions on race specs; it helps the layman like myself visualize a little bit better having not had the fortune to assess/experience for myself.
Miles for the day - 8.75
Tuesday, 2/18
Today was weird. First of all, I'm back on the couch, to which I was harboring this guilt, like - I'm not sleeping by my husband, he must be sad - to finding that he likes me not sleeping by him, so now I'm burned and it doesn't help that we're watching the remake-to-series High Fidelity and that I'm reading Daring Greatly...feel v. burned & v. vulnerable lol.
I went in for a routine fill-in-a-chipped-filling which turned into this really crazy emergent event where I'm basically told (though he disputed me on this) that I've been chewing rocks, there's all these fissures, which let in bacteria (sexxy) and the crown they capped covered a root canal which was infected and the bone beneath was deleterious, and somehow with all that I had zero pain...they numb me up, fix the chip (showing me along the way each step, which was, I have to admit, very fascinating), and someone walks up with some numbers scratched on a piece of paper of how much my root canal will cost me today. They were extremely sweet, asking me about the Trials, trying to plan the best mode of care backwards from it, which meant that they had me emergently walk up the street to a root-canal-through-a-crown specialist, where they offer coffee (?) and oj (?) and then I'm shot up numb (though not offered gas), a bajillion xray's are taken, they work on the salty tooth; it feels like my mouth is an engine, the amount of times they exchange tool bits and saw types, and they funnel for 7-9 minutes a cleaning solution, and put on a temp filling topper because somehow on top of it all there's still a flippin' cavity in there and they say I'll have to walk back down the street and get that fixed, as well as a new crown, and I'm like WTF. And then I pay them $702 dollars. Now I'm wondering, was that a conspiracy? What just happened. I wonder if my body has been fighting this 2 month cough and tooth infection and now that I've got them under control, if some beautiful butterfly of strength will emerge.
Thankfully Rad Bones altered the course of the day and got me in for an appt. We gabbed the appt. long. All I want to do is drink and chat and laugh with him. I awkwardly ate a salad for dinner, because I don't have full mouth function. And I slept on the couch. Winning. At. Life.
Miles for the day - 0 + wtf
Wednesday, 2/19
Ok, let's try for normalcy! I got a text from one of my favorite people - Liz - "So how do you feel about Jordan?" And I was like, "Hasay? Why, wtf is happening?" And what is actually happening is that the IAU has allotted for a 50K Road World Champs for 2020 in Jordan. We didn't expect this. Were told that it would be 2021 if anything. And having placed in the top 10 at last year's Worlds, we're afforded the opportunity of returning. All I can say is that experiencing Romania and running the IAU 50K Road World Champs last September was one of the best times of my life, and with it came newfound relationships with people I really value.
Ok, so, workout. It's the last one that might have some effect, if you believe in the 10-day rule. I'm doing something new to me (I think I generally do a 3x2 or something):
WU + 1T (5:25) + 2MP (5:49, 5:47) + 1T (5:26) + 2MP (5:43, 5:36) + CD
What I like about this is that it incorporates pace variance, which is essential for a course like ATL's. Legs felt a bit acidic, maybe from the body work yesterday, maybe from having a day off. I'll take that to mean that a shakeout on Friday before the race will be the best for me.
Doubled with 2Trainz who was 4 beers deep, ending at JD for strength. I've come to find that I am awful at all jumps/bounds/single leg lateral jumps etc. I mean, wasn't I a baller back in the day? Where did it go? Tbh I spent a lot of time on the floor...Last strength class done before ATL. Pizza, wine, High Fidelity.
Miles for the day - 15.4
Thursday, 2/20
Chose a sleep in. Ran with 2Trainz, but we were hauling (6:57s). I think I'll opt out of fastboi runz until I leave. Met up with Cousin & Co. which always involves Margaritas (her homemade ones are preferred); met someone's new beloved, walked around downtown, had more margaritas with nachos and a phat burrito, happened upon several interesting conversations that I was v. into, and kept telling my friends, "What a socially sensory night," or, "Social observances everywhere!" Met a puppy, wrestled with it. I'd say today was socially on point.
Miles for the day - 10.5
Friday, 2/21
Finally got to see what I'll be wearing at the Trials and it's perfect. With their evocative nod to the 70s Tracksmith is a brand I'm so grateful I fell into connection with. This whole year with them has been so fun, I'll be sad to see it go after the race. It's also been fun tracking the hashtag #Atlanta2020, but also entirely anxiety-inducing. There's been a countdown since 100 days basically. I saw some runner in the field say, "I'm going to be off social until after the race so I can focus," which I commend.
I find it hard to get mileage when I'm coming down from mileage. Does that make sense? Like, I had to take a day off for my tooth emergency, and it feels like I'm trying to play catch up, so I don't taper too much too soon. It's a weird place. I find it much simpler to be in the 90-100s. Needed a small double after work, which I squeezed in between giving my MIL a quick kiss (she's in town to help with a garage sale M planned for tomorrow) and dinner with grandparents at, guess where? Jalapenos for more mex and margs. Literally the last thing I want to do is a garage sale before we leave for ATL, as well as talk to strangers. But this whole 3's company thing with M's mom is fun, I have to say.
Miles for the day - 13.5
Saturday, 2/22
By 7:00 am we were busting out this garage sale, hanging signs, etc. Dang people showed up an hour early. It wasn't supposed to rain during the chunk of time we allotted for, but of course it did, and I spent all my time moving things around, drying things off, throwing things in the dryer. It was a lot of work, but we did sell a bunch of crap and the people were nice and Michelle Nolan stopped by and chatted for a long while about the evolution of running and women in sport. My favorite line of hers from that day, "Well I am a Lezzy anyway!" It felt better still to take all that didn't sell, load up the Kia and drop it off at Goodwill (3 bins man). Felt like I lost a couple hundred pounds. However, getting to my last long run before the trials, I was pretty toasted, especially my hams. Must have been doing a lot of poor bending over. It was probably one of my worst feeling medium LR's this whole cycle. Not worried. Better to get it over with now.
Miles for the day - 13.1
Sunday, 2/23
I had planned on meeting up with the team for a Sunday run, but woke up at 3:30 am with a raging migraine and nausea. Tried taking some ibu's with a snack for absorption but ended up vomming it all. The onlyonly thing that provides comfort when something like this happens to me (be it cramping, migraines, nausea) is laying down under a hot shower. It was the only place I found solace until the water went cold. It lasted for a half day. Despite all the bodily drama, the run and my legs felt better than yesterday. Ended with some strides, which definitely woke them up more. Packed for the trip. M talked me into checking a bag, and the diva in me went wild. Options!
Miles for the day - 10
Miles for the week - 71.6 + strength
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