It Was Intense
Dec. 23rd, 2019 08:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pshaw_ravenYesterday I did my 20-mile training run, the last major long run before Dopey. I'm glad that's over - it was tough. I'm having the usual issues I have the day after a super-long run or a distance, namely I'm still tired, my resting heart rate is elevated, and I want to eat everything in sight. I should definitely go with that last one, because I'm four pounds down today, which ain't good.
We decided against going out for Chinese on Christmas. The local place that is actually good is also super-busy that day. We went Saturday. It scratched the itch and gave me an opportunity to carb load. I'm still going out to run errands today but limiting myself to groceries because I don't feel like dealing with people. I hate having to be out in the holiday crazies when I need to get things done. It's a different proposition to just sit around and watch people devolve, but entirely another when I actually just need coffee and cat food and have to put up with hoardes of last-minute gift buyers fighting for whatever's big this year. I'll be doing that relatively soon in hopes that if I get out early I can beat some of the crowds.
IT RAINED. Holy crap did it ever rain. Two and a half inches, and it just now started to clear out. It was kind of comforting to listen to last night while, for whatever reason, I couldn't sleep despite being totally exhausted. WTF.
Finally, a link - 'Advertising Breaks Your Spirit' - French Cities Trying to Ban Public Adverts Good for them. Advertising is a pernicious, ugly thing and I have a deep, intense dislike for ads. And every year they creep up onto something else that was previously just a blank expanse of free time and thought. I recently saw a photo of someone fortune cookie that had ads printed on the fortune.
We decided against going out for Chinese on Christmas. The local place that is actually good is also super-busy that day. We went Saturday. It scratched the itch and gave me an opportunity to carb load. I'm still going out to run errands today but limiting myself to groceries because I don't feel like dealing with people. I hate having to be out in the holiday crazies when I need to get things done. It's a different proposition to just sit around and watch people devolve, but entirely another when I actually just need coffee and cat food and have to put up with hoardes of last-minute gift buyers fighting for whatever's big this year. I'll be doing that relatively soon in hopes that if I get out early I can beat some of the crowds.
IT RAINED. Holy crap did it ever rain. Two and a half inches, and it just now started to clear out. It was kind of comforting to listen to last night while, for whatever reason, I couldn't sleep despite being totally exhausted. WTF.
Finally, a link - 'Advertising Breaks Your Spirit' - French Cities Trying to Ban Public Adverts Good for them. Advertising is a pernicious, ugly thing and I have a deep, intense dislike for ads. And every year they creep up onto something else that was previously just a blank expanse of free time and thought. I recently saw a photo of someone fortune cookie that had ads printed on the fortune.
