Here comes the snow.

It looks like I might have to get my snow gear ready pretty soon!

The past few days have been trying in more ways than one. It was the one day of the year my boss decided to treat me to lunch. That would have been great except for the fact that he wanted Chinese, which always leaves me feeling...blah. I managed to get by with a side of steamed rice and a bowl of hot and sour soup (extra hot). Usually I would have opted for the 2lb platter of Kung Pao Chicken. Somehow it still managed to do a number to my stomach.

My run yesterday was an easy 1 miler per the training guide, which was quite a change of pace from what I've been doing. It seemed like I no longer walked out the door, and I was cooling down coming into the driveway. Last year I had an episode of pain that lasted about a month, coming from my anterior hip area. Lately the sensitivity has been back, but not as bad as it was before. I'm trying to be extremely conservative with my pace now, and am really focusing on warm ups, cool downs, and stretches. I would be devastated if my journey came to an early end because of an injury I could have prevented. I know the only reason it would get any worse at this point is from overuse, which I learned last year.

Unfortunately today has been a fairly unproductive day in the office, mainly due to a lack of sleep. Last night one of our "canine kids" suffered some sort of neck strain that sent her into a tailspin of agony, and uncontrollable, heart wrenching yelps. I ended up taking her to the Animal ER at about 8:30pm. She was given an IV of Morphine, and was sent home with an extensive treatment plan, including more meds. We didn't get back home until about midnight, and poor Pepper was so wobbly from the Morphine it took another hour to get her settled in. What I wouldn't give for animals and infants to have the ability to talk.

The rest of the week should be (knock on wood) fairly uneventful in regards to the training program. The way things have been going this week, I'm not going to complain, but rather welcome the more relaxed weeks of training while they're still here.