Just Plodding Along

This morning I was scheduled to run an easy three but due to some soreness I decided to hit up Pilates and call it a day. I will get in an extra three miles tomorrow morning so am not overly worried about it. Better to feel good for speed work than run just because the schedule says. Foam rolling will be happening today. Cathryn over at My Heart's Content asked about working at Big Dog so I thought I would share what it is like to work at a running store. Big Dog Running Company  has four locations in the area. One in Uptown, one in Columbus Crossing, one on Fort Benning and one in Auburn. One big plus about Big Dog is they are willing to hire military spouses. People can be hesitant to do that because inevitably we will be moving on but Big Dog hires a lot of us. The other great thing is that everyone who works there is a runner. Some are new to running some have been running for awhile but everyone is pretty much a run nerd. Source The owners are runners and are very co...

Well with no running and crappy weather this week has been all work, work, work.  I give you a typical week at work: Pretty much all day everyday When my boss acts surprised when I figure something out all on my own When a coworker tries, yet again, to throw me under the bus during a meeting but this time I am prepared When I get an email response from someone who basically says what I am asking them to do is beneath them When I am asked to do an extensive amount of research on a topic that has no relevance to anything  After I am assigned yet another huge project to be done in a ridiculously short amount of time  When a coworker, who I can not stand, comes to my cube to complain about their life  oh and by the way At the end of a day filled with meetings The strange compulsion I fight while sitting in meetings When I am walking to my friend's office and see the boss go in...

This morning I woke up feeling fine but tired. Took Max for a stroll and went to work. I joked with a co-worker about wanting to call in tired and zitty (sweating for multiple hours does not equal a gorgeous complexion the next day) and should not have done that because by 10:30 I felt like death. Shaky, feverish and like I was going to puke on someone. So I called it a day, grabbed multiple Gatorades on the way home and tried to nap in a cool place. (Not sure if it is marathon exhaustion or whatever crud is floating around the office this week.) And then lay there listening to my lawn being mowed (yay for landscaper, boo for timing) and finally almost fell asleep when I got a call from work. WTF. Ahhhhhhh give me a break. If I am not at work- then I am hard pressed to care about what is going on at work. Unless it is on fire- do not call me. I do not excel at napping apparently.  Some funny things that happened yesterday during the marathon: A...

Today has been the craziest day. 1) Fun mansion, pretend I have money time is over. Back to the poor house. Unfortunately that meant schlepping my 18 tiny bags I had packed back home. Why did I not just pack one large bag? Sometimes I wonder about myself The trash bag suitcase takes the classiness of any situation up a notch Not pictured: 2 more tiny bags full of who knows what 2) I tweaked my knee at zumba. Too much bump and grind or something. I have been icing and stretching and cursing at it in an attempt for it to be all better by tomorrow's run. Never thought cross training would be the thing to take me down. 3) While out for a site visit for work (I currently work in community development and do some inspecting of work sites and projects) I was driving along the interstate with some coworkers when there was a pretty bad crash up ahead. It involved us jumping out of the car and aiding the people, one of which had been thrown out of the car, until hel...