I cannot believe I have made it through the first six weeks of this training schedule. Holla! Today’s “long” run called for a 5K race … I thought I might try to run 6 again but instead I decided just to run a 5K. Having the long run of the week be shorter than the mid-week runs (4 miles) was kind of weird, but I was down with it, largely because my shins still feel like someone’s been beating them with a baseball bat.
I headed to the gym this afternoon after a long day of doing schoolwork and settled in for my 3.1-mile run. I discovered a new TV show while doing this. Of course I’d heard of The Real Housewives of Orange County, but I’d never seen it (or any of the Real Housewives derivations) until today on the treadmill. OMG, how I have lived until now? It’s so terrible that it’s good. I caught what I think was the season finale (a wedding, lots of drunkenness, lots of big blonde hair, big boobs, veneers, and so forth) and a little bit of a reunion show on which it was revealed that said wedding cost between $300,000 and $500,000. Oooooooo-kay. Who are these people? Who watches this show? I don’t know. But I think I now watch this show. I swear it made me feel better about myself. That might be sick, but it’s true.
Which is just to say that I tried to focus on this show’s money and mayhem instead of the horror of my shins and my crazily slow pace and my ridiculously Hot Face. I’m glad it was on. I’m glad week six is over. I hope I’m not permanently maiming myself by continuing to run on these shins. My boyfriend is running 16 miles tomorrow and I should just stop complaining. Best running song of the day, one of my all time favorite songs in life: “The World Spins Madly On” by The Weepies.
Tonight we ate shrimp, pineapple, onion, and bell pepper pizza from the best pizza joint in town and made mint chocolate chip brownies. 10 weeks to go!
