I’m moving. I don’t know where or when but I’m moving. I’m sick of cold
weather and snow and bad roads. Seriously,
it has been a week and some of the roads are still crap (icy and snow covered). Frustrated!
We are in another cold snap. I think this is the 3rd time but it is hard
to tell because it is the worse winter ever. Yesterday was 9 below in the
morning. It warmed up to 18 degrees but the wind was around 30-50mph that it
felt horrible. The wind mixed with the snow causing whiteout conditions on my
drive home from the park and ride. Today it was 15 below with 35 below wind
chill and the high for today is supposed to be 1 below. It is almost freaking
MARCH. What the heck is going on! And it
isn’t going to get better the next 4 days have below zero mornings. How am I supposed to run outside when it is
10 below!? At this point I’d be happy with 15 degrees and no wind! And March is
only 2 days away. I told DJ that it will be 5 below for our 7K on March 15th...mark my words!
Speaking of running...
My IT band is wreaking havoc on my training. I did 3 miles last night; the first 2 miles
were great the last one sucked. My leg
really hurts. I used the foam roller last night and this morning and iced my leg
at work. It better get better soon. I
have 3 more miles for Friday to get to 50 miles for February. I’m lowering my goal for March because I’m
going to take some time to heal my leg.
I won’t stop running completely but I’m going to do less days and
possibly fewer miles. I can’t stop completely because I’d never start back up
again and I have my weight loss goals to reach! I’m going to do more swimming in
March since that should help reduce stress on my IT band. I think the main
reason for my IT band problems is because of the weather. Since it has been so
freaking cold and icy, I have been running a lot inside this past week. I typically go on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays…and
those days the track goes clockwise.
Because of volleyball and band, I can’t go Tuesdays and Thursdays which
are the counterclockwise days. I think that is the biggest problem. I’m running 42-56 laps one direction. And I it
makes complete sense because it is my right leg’s IT band that hurts. Weekends are also counterclockwise days but I
try to go outside even if it is cold so that is why I think my IT band is inflamed.
It is the weather’s fault…stupid weather.
I’m moving somewhere warmer…I just don’t know where.