December 1, 2000
Guess what just came in the mail? Race
stuff! I got the emergency ID tag to wear on my shoe, a mess of temporary tattoos
to put on my face, arms, legs with the NF charity logo, and my coolmax racing
singlet/shirt in hunter green. The letters "NF" are silk screened in front and
the full charity logo and "racing for reasearch" in back. Know what bowls
me over the most? The little note from the program director telling me to steam
the letters again because she thinks her iron was not working well and she doesn't
want my name letters to come off. I can't believe the race director is *personally*
ironing our names on the singlets herself. I can't believe she'd personlize them
anyhow -- that's such a sweet thing of her to do for so many team people! I'd
def. walk another one of these for this woman -- she's made my whole first big
race experience so positive and so personal. But you know what this means?!
I'm down the the month before the race at Disney! Yeeee-hhaaaaaaaaah!
Just don't expect any of my posting from this point on to make any sense wahtsoever.
I am WAY to hyper! Whee! *boingy, boingy, boingy*
posted
by Cat "Astrophe" 3:07 PM
November 30, 2000
I got my sweatshirt! I got my sweatshirt.. and that's a good thing, because
it's getting cold. I still can't put the phone down in a controlled manner..
posted by Adrith 1:05 PM
November
29, 2000
Good news! The horrible pain Amy promised me yesterday
is nothing more than a tightness in my upper arms and chest. Which means I'm still
(mostly) functional.. and that I can get in a wog this evening - if it's not already
started to snow! Yup, that's right.. snow. Expected to start later tonight
and end sometime tomorrow. WHEEEEE!!!
posted by Adrith 9:11
AM
One strange thing I've noticed
over the past couple hours is that although I've got excellent control of my arms
when picking things up (like the phone handset) .. it's much harder when I put
them back DOWN. I just got off the phone with somebody at work, and was surprised
when I couldn't control my arm all the way down to the phone base - and as a matter
of fact, I was lucky to get the handset back in the cradle, it was so uncontrolled.
Hrmm...
posted by Adrith 11:34 AM
November 28, 2000
I can't remember feeling so weak in
my arms before. Amy, my fitness analyst from the Employee Fitness Program, assures
me that I'll be in pain tomorrow. I went to my weights orientation session
today, if you hadn't gathered. I learned how to work on about ten different machines,
and am much less scared of them than before. I'm supposed to go again on my own
once this week, and then I'll meet up with Amy next Tuesday to assess how well
I did on my solo session. I know in my head that making my muscles work so
hard will lead to improvements down the line for me. But all the same, I understand
much better why people try it once and stop - this weak feeling is freaky.
I don't know if I want to try to get in a run tonight, feeling this way, or if
I just want to wait until tomorrow when I've had a chance to recover.
posted
by Adrith 2:54 PM
November 27, 2000
The bad news: I've got a full-fledged cold. I'm trying to beat it
back with nutritious meals, lots and lots of water, and my dear friend Tylenol
Sinus ... but it's winning.
The good news: Over the last four days
or so, I've had occasion to do little tiny bits of running - running the cart
back to the corral in the driving rain, running across the street so that the
cars don't have to stop for pedestrian me, running from the car to the house with
groceries. And each time I break into a bit of running, it feels effortless. Like
I'm supposed to be running. Now if I could just breathe..
posted
by Adrith 11:12 AM
My new shoes
are here! Yaaay!
posted by Cat "Astrophe" 5:21 PM
As I told Cat in an e-mail, I was going to
go out for a wog tonight .. because I was having a rare moment of clarity. And
I discovered one of the many things I dislike about having to do evening wogs
in the gym these days: exercise can .. uh .. exacerbate an existing delicate tummy
from other problems. For reasons that I don't want to make painfully obvious,
I cut tonight's session short - 1.46 mi in 30 minutes. Last five minutes spent
at a dreadfully slow pace, trying not to make a scene. I need to start getting
up in the mornings and go out for a run then. OR, taking an extra long lunch on
Tuesdays and Thursdays and running over at the Field House, where there is an
indoor track, and (even better) showering facilities. I've got the time saved
up - all I need to do is clear it with Diana..
posted by
Adrith 8:10 PM
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