I vaguely realize it's been almost three weeks since my last post, but honestly, things have been so chaotic that it hasn't felt that long. The past couple weeks have kind of blended together in a mesh of chaos and the responsibilities of being an adult. Among the mix of crazy other than the standard job crazy has been figuring out how soon we want to possibly be homeowners (a terrifyingly adult dilemma) and dealing with multiple vet visits for one of our cats. It just so happened to be the cat that is the most "I'm a delicate princess" diva-cat, Jezebel. She had to have surgery to remove a lump from her jaw, which meant she had to wear the cone-of-shame. For 10 days. Which, I can assure you was something she continued to let us know was unacceptable. Her favorite method of notifying us of this fact was scratching incessantly at the cone for hours on end in the middle of the night. I do not understand how some people say that cats have no personality. Ours have very different and distinct personalities. Now, people saying cats are assholes, I totally get. But no personality? Stay with us for a while and you will feel differently. The whole thing was actually pretty comical once my feelings of extreme guilt during the first few days were over.
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| Day 1 right after getting home. She got so tired trying to get out of the cone, she flopped over and fell asleep. |
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| Also day 1. Sleeping off the drugs |
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| A couple days later. She would not accept us not petting her at this point. Like I said...Diva-cat. |
One bonus to the crazy schedule has been that I've inadvertently re-established a running routine. I had been doing a fairly good job fitting in my runs but they were kind of here and there and I hadn't been making a lot of progress on my PR time. So busy weeks have given me a running schedule of one easy day and one day of sprints during the week and then a long run on Saturday where I run a 5k for time and then continue with my running intervals up through at least 50 minutes. I've come to love sprint day. I get a good workout that's really time-efficient and also does wonders for my endurance. Case in point: yesterday. After doing sprints once a week for a few weeks (and also having some really REALLY good strong coffee) I managed a 5k time of 36:15. That was almost a full minute off of my previous PR. I felt like a total badass. I desperately needed a win like that since my motivation to get the runs done had been taking many many hits lately. It was pretty nice. I also have been trying to include some extra strength training, which could have helped, but my lungs always seem to give out during my runs before my legs, so I'm giving the credit to the coffee and the sprints. Also, a disclaimer: my runs are 90% of the time done on the treadmill. I know many runners who would scoff at me for doing as many of the workouts as I do on the treadmill, but the way I see it, improvement is improvement and it's better than not running at all.
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| That's right. I'm a badass. Also, seriously, if you can find that coffee, GET IT. |
Races are coming up soon! A 5k sponsored by Sarah Bush at home May 17th and then the Color Run in Racine May 24th. I think it's safe to say I'm feeling a lot better about both of them after this weekend. :)
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