This weekend I MUST do my long run. Not because it's really essential to my training - most of my races are 5k's, I don't really need a ton of long runs to increase my volume. Not because I'm feeling lazy without it like before - I've come to terms with the fact that I struggle to get out the door running on the weekends, and I need to add these miles in gradually.
No, I MUST do this run because of lunch yesterday. We always go out to eat on Fridays, every week without fail. But there is a group of guys here at the office who also go out on Thursdays to Buffalo Wild Wings for 50 cent boneless wings. I normally don't go, maybe once every 6 or 8 weeks, and it had been a while, so I decided to tag along yesterday.
Mistake. The BW3's here has been having trouble drumming up lunch business, so they've got an all-you-can-eat boneless wings promotion going on. How could I resist, right?
No part of wings are healthy for you. Chicken coated in heavy breading, then covered in syrupy, spicy sauce. And if 1 is bad for you, how bad are 20?
Luckily, my morning running this week meant I didn't have to run after that kind of lunch, only lift. My legs and back are a little sore, but not as bad as last time. And Thursday's tempo run was the last for about a month - next week, 200m intervals, then 400m intervals after that for a while. I'm finally starting to feel like I'm training instead of just running.
Not a lot going on with this post, huh? My mother in law is visiting this weekend, so I should have something interesting to talk about next week. Until then, MUST BEHAVE AT MEAL TIME...
They had cake in the staff cafe at work yesterday. Knowing that 1 mile = roughly 100 calories, I looked at that cake and thought, "how many miles is that worth?" I've been on my best behavior since the entire medium pizza that I ate last week.
ReplyDeleteAlecia, as will be revealed in my Tuesday post, I failed miserably in all aspects of behaving at meal time for the past 3 days. Don't count your food in miles, you run the risk of losing your enjoyment of both!
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