Just an Average SKIRT

Let’s get right to the facts - don’t, and I mean DO NOT, get a $17 dollar Whole Foods salad 45 minutes before your run no matter the distance. And definitely DO NOT circle around the bar a second time to further fill your salad with yummy goodness. So let’s say you don’t heed my warning and you do this anyway…then please, absolutely do not go for a run right after you eat this $17 dollar, 2lb salad.

Ok, ok, let’s say you just don’t listen to any of this advice and you do get a $17 salad from Whole Foods (overflowing so that the lid doesn’t really fit and requires not one but two elastics to hold it together) and then you do go for a run, even short one….you may as well just practice cramping because I can pretty much guarantee that will happen within the first 15 seconds of the workout. If you haven’t guessed this is what I did but to make things even better at the time I realized that I was starving I also realized that I had only consumed one glass of water all day. It was after 4pm, we had no food in the house and I was dehydrated. Anyway you know what happened from here and those 3.5 miles were some of the most educating I’ve ever run.

After the run, BJ and I hit the pool for a drill swim with the synchronized swimming team. It was so cool, there was an underwater speaker with music and a ton of girls in bright colored suits and huge lungs. I felt like I was in Mer-land, it was really fun to watch. These girls hold their breath forever I couldn’t help but think they should all become triathletes because fear of water would be obsolete.

Today I’m focusing on work and using this as my day off since I moved my long run to Sunday and I’ll be out all day on my long ride tomorrow. 94 miles…the most I’ve ever done. Can’t wait, I’m looking forward to it!

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