{"id":152,"date":"2013-02-26T04:58:06","date_gmt":"2013-02-26T04:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ramblingrunnergirl.com\/?p=152"},"modified":"2013-03-13T13:49:24","modified_gmt":"2013-03-13T13:49:24","slug":"some-days-youve-got-it-and-some-day-you-dont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ramblingrunnergirl.com\/?p=152","title":{"rendered":"Some Days You’ve Got it, and Some Day You Don’t"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some days you\u2019ve got it, and some days you don\u2019t.\u00a0 My legs are toast today.\u00a0 Every time I move, I pretty much want to cry.\u00a0My quads are screaming. \u00a0After 3 days of doing almost nothing due to having the kids at home for snow days, I went and ran 15 miles yesterday.\u00a0 And lemme tell ya, I\u2019m feeling it today.\u00a0 I guess, to say I did nothing on those snow days, isn\u2019t entirely accurate.\u00a0 I ran in circles and jumped through hoops trying to entertain 3 kiddos who were suddenly off school for a couple days.\u00a0 And I shoveled snow, lots of snow. \u00a0I was the first person on my street to have a cleared driveway.\u00a0 It\u2019s the Chicago girl in me.\u00a0 If I\u2019m going to be stuck at home, it will definitely not be because of my own doing. It\u2019s amazing how much of a workout shoveling can be.\u00a0 But anyway, yeah, I got up this morning with the intention of running before or after boxing.\u00a0 But alas, boxing is all I was able to manage today.\u00a0 It was funny that on the jab-jab-roll-hook-cross-cross combo, David said to me, \u201cNice power.\u201d\u00a0 Because quite frankly, I didn\u2019t feel like I had any power today.\u00a0 And my roundhouse kicks were severely lacking in comparison to what they typically are.<\/p>\n

So, today was a day that I just didn\u2019t really have my usual stuff.\u00a0 Of course, sometimes, on those days vanity can kick in and do incredible things.\u00a0 A couple weeks ago, I had just that experience.\u00a0 I walked into boxing on a Wednesday morning, and the first thing I said to David was, \u201cYou better start this class soon or I\u2019m gonna lay down on the floor and go to sleep.\u201d\u00a0 I was tired and I didn\u2019t feel like working particularly hard that day.\u00a0 But something changed as soon as I glanced in the mirror and figured out that my eyes were not playing tricks on me.\u00a0 Jackie Joyner Kersee was at the back of the room, taking the same class I was.\u00a0 OMG, I get to work out with Jackie Joyner Kersee.\u00a0 Holy Crap, that is so flipping cool!<\/p>\n

You can bet I didn\u2019t slack on that workout.\u00a0 As tired as I felt, something in me kicked into high gear, call it pride or vanity or whatever, but I went full throttle when I saw Jackie.\u00a0 No wusses here!\u00a0 I was dripping with sweat by the time we finished.\u00a0 Like, we\u2019re talking eyes burning from the streams of sweat pouring down my face dripping.<\/p>\n

When we finished, I hesitated.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t want to storm her as soon as the class was done, but there was no way I was going to pass up the opportunity to talk to Jackie. \u00a0(Yeah, that\u2019s right, I\u2019ve seen her again since and we\u2019re on a first name basis.\u00a0 Well, ok, I\u2019m on a first name basis, she probably doesn\u2019t remember mine.) Anyway, I put away my weights, had a drink of water, and was chatting it up with some of the regulars I know.\u00a0 I put on my jacket, my black Fleet Feet jacket that I wear proudly so that people know I\u2019m a part of the running community.\u00a0 I grabbed my boxing gloves and my keys, and threw my sunglasses on top of my head, which is so classic Lindsey.\u00a0 I looked around\u2026where did she go?\u00a0 Shoot!\u00a0 Did she leave?\u00a0 Oh, nope, she was on one of the weight machines.\u00a0 I walked casually across the gym.\u00a0 Ok, so, maybe I was trying really hard to appear casual.\u00a0 On the inside I was jumping up and down like a kid in a candy store. She looked up and saw me coming.\u00a0 I smiled.\u00a0 Jackie smiled.\u00a0 I spoke, \u201cI don\u2019t want to interrupt your workout, but I just wanted to say Hi.\u00a0 I\u2019m Lindsey.\u201d\u00a0 She extended her hand and I shook it, as she said something\u2026I was in a fog, I think she said HI, or nice to meet you, or something, but I really couldn\u2019t tell you which.\u00a0 I told Jackie that I had received a finishers medal from her a couple times at the Bridge the Gap half marathon in Quincy.\u00a0 She said, \u201cOh, I was just up there for the kickoff.\u00a0 Are you going to do it again this year?\u201d\u00a0 I said, \u201cWell, I\u2019m not sure yet.\u00a0 I\u2019m signed up for the Vancouver marathon which is the week before.\u201d\u00a0 She kind of chuckled and said something like, \u201cOh, you marathoners.\u00a0 I couldn\u2019t do that.\u201d\u00a0 Are you kidding me?! \u00a0This is Jackie Joyner Kersee!\u00a0 I\u2019m just happy to be standing in the same room with her and all of her Olympic greatness.<\/p>\n

We talked for a minute about Fleet Feet and the 5K race that Jackie\u2019s foundation is hoping to start next year with the help of our race timing division.\u00a0 Then I told Jackie I\u2019d let her get back to her workout.\u00a0 She made a comment about needing to get in shape.\u00a0 HA!\u00a0 I responded with, \u201cI don\u2019t think you have anything to worry about there.\u00a0 But when you\u2019re ready for new shoes, come see me at FLEET FEET\u201d.\u00a0 I really hope she does.<\/p>\n

\"RRG<\/a>

RRG and JJK at the finish of the Bridge the Gap half marathon in Quincy, IL<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some days you\u2019ve got it, and some days you don\u2019t.\u00a0 My legs are toast today.\u00a0 Every time I move, I pretty much want to cry.\u00a0My quads are screaming. \u00a0After 3 days of doing almost nothing due to having the kids at home for snow days, I went and ran 15 miles yesterday.\u00a0 And lemme tell […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-randomthoughts","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4eO4v-2s","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ramblingrunnergirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ramblingrunnergirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ramblingrunnergirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ramblingrunnergirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ramblingrunnergirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.ramblingrunnergirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":155,"href":"http:\/\/www.ramblingrunnergirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions\/155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ramblingrunnergirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ramblingrunnergirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ramblingrunnergirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}