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pshaw_raven) wrote2024-02-19 08:45 am
pshaw_raven) wrote2024-02-19 08:45 am
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My coffee fast lasted four days, LOL. Yesterday I woke up cold and tired, stayed cold and tired, and ended up snuggling on the couch with the cats for a long time. I had a time trial run scheduled and I didn't feel like doing it. I also wasn't sure I could even pull off a recovery run, let alone race pace. So I said "fuck it, I'm having coffee." Yes, I actually said that out loud. And lo and behold I felt better. And ran my time trial exactly on pace.
I guess I'd forgotten that the point of this was to reduce my coffee intake, not abandon it altogether. And it would be different if I had to dress mine up with cream, sugar, flavor shots, and other stuff. I like the taste of basic, strong black coffee. But Fox and I put our heads together (bonk) and now I'm going about my mornings a little differently. Today was good, we'll see if it stays good going forward. In winter I want something hot when I get up, so I made a cup of Lemon Zinger first thing and let it steep while I fed the cats and got the fire going. After yoga, I had some breakfast and drank my first cup of coffee. I brewed a pot of three cups instead of my usual five.
The time trial I did was for Gate River Run, the 15k coming up in about a week and a half. We submitted time again this year and I'm in the green starting wave, with Fox right behind me in orange. We think perhaps they weighted the times, since his finishes usually put him in the top fifty percent of male runners, but my similar times put me in the top ten to twenty percent of females. Anyway, I'm feeling more optimistic this year. Last year I bonked again at around mile five, the crowning failure to a season full of crappy races and poor performances.
Fox is feeling under the weather so he's gone back to bed, and I'm just catching up on household stuff I didn't get a chance to do over the weekend, keeping the fire burning.
We ended up getting 1.75" rain this weekend total. The road is better since we've worked on it, but it's pretty soft and rutted out. It just doesn't have the massive, deep washouts it used to. Hopefully it dried out enough this week to firm up. I'm not exactly looking forward to running today as everything is just a soggy mess.
I guess I'd forgotten that the point of this was to reduce my coffee intake, not abandon it altogether. And it would be different if I had to dress mine up with cream, sugar, flavor shots, and other stuff. I like the taste of basic, strong black coffee. But Fox and I put our heads together (bonk) and now I'm going about my mornings a little differently. Today was good, we'll see if it stays good going forward. In winter I want something hot when I get up, so I made a cup of Lemon Zinger first thing and let it steep while I fed the cats and got the fire going. After yoga, I had some breakfast and drank my first cup of coffee. I brewed a pot of three cups instead of my usual five.
The time trial I did was for Gate River Run, the 15k coming up in about a week and a half. We submitted time again this year and I'm in the green starting wave, with Fox right behind me in orange. We think perhaps they weighted the times, since his finishes usually put him in the top fifty percent of male runners, but my similar times put me in the top ten to twenty percent of females. Anyway, I'm feeling more optimistic this year. Last year I bonked again at around mile five, the crowning failure to a season full of crappy races and poor performances.
Fox is feeling under the weather so he's gone back to bed, and I'm just catching up on household stuff I didn't get a chance to do over the weekend, keeping the fire burning.
We ended up getting 1.75" rain this weekend total. The road is better since we've worked on it, but it's pretty soft and rutted out. It just doesn't have the massive, deep washouts it used to. Hopefully it dried out enough this week to firm up. I'm not exactly looking forward to running today as everything is just a soggy mess.