{"id":183,"date":"2013-03-07T03:14:06","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T03:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ramblingrunnergirl.com\/?p=183"},"modified":"2013-03-13T13:37:24","modified_gmt":"2013-03-13T13:37:24","slug":"stair-repeats-and-blondie-bars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ramblingrunnergirl.com\/?p=183","title":{"rendered":"Stair Repeats and Blondie Bars"},"content":{"rendered":"

What\u2019s worse than being stuck at home with a puking kid for two days?\u00a0 Being stuck at home with a puking kid for two days and making the bad decision to bake.\u00a0 Because when you\u2019re stuck in a house \u00a0with just one other person most of the time, who happens to be managing only Gatorade and saltines, you find yourself eating the entire pan of Trader Joe\u2019s Blondie Bars.\u00a0 Ugh.<\/p>\n

After 2 days of that, I was in serious need of a run.\u00a0 Especially since my calves were still ridiculously tight from another bad choice I made earlier in the week.\u00a0 On Monday, I went to boxing.\u00a0 Then I decided to go for a run at the mud pit called Castlewood State Park.\u00a0 Now, I love to run in the mud, but I only managed about 3 miles because the mud was more like clay that was clinging to my shoes making it feel like I was running with cinderblocks strapped to my feet.\u00a0 So, I gave up that idea and decided to run the stairs.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t just run them once, or twice.\u00a0 Not even 5 times.\u00a0 I ran the Castlewood stairs 10 times.\u00a0 Yeah, that\u2019s right, I said TEN.\u00a0 I\u2019m not sure what got into me, maybe it was Kanye singing \u201cN-now that that don\u2019t kill me, can only make me stronger\u201d.\u00a0 Or maybe it was my determination to do even better this year on Leg 19 of the Smoky Mountain Relay in April (5.5 miles over a 2,500 foot incline on gravel in the pitch dark-Bring it!)\u00a0 Whatever it was, it seemed like a good idea the first time up the stairs.\u00a0 But by round 7, I couldn\u2019t even really feel my legs.\u00a0 By the time I got back to my car in the parking lot, my quads were shaking and I had a hard time removing my Cascadia\u2019s from my feet.<\/p>\n

I always say its two days after a tough workout that the pain is the worst. \u00a0So, here we are, it\u2019s Wednesday, and my calves are on fire. I\u2019m hydrated. \u00a0I tried foam rolling.\u00a0 That was only minimally helpful.\u00a0 I knew I needed to go for a run to stretch it out.\u00a0 But after sitting around watching TV and eating Blondie Bars for 30some hours, I was severely lacking motivation and energy to get off the bar stool my butt had become glued to.\u00a0 I needed to tap into another source.\u00a0 Question: What is in perpetual motion and has the energy of a puppy on steroids?\u00a0 Answer: My 7 year old.\u00a0 So, after I picked the older kids up from school, I said, \u201cHey Ethan, you wanna go for a run around the lake with me?\u201d\u00a0 He said, yeah, sure, but could I wait 10 minutes for him to get ready.\u00a0 Uh, yeah, cause I\u2019m gonna need at least that long to get motivated to do this.\u00a0 It\u2019s only 1.25 miles around the little lake we live on.\u00a0 It really shouldn\u2019t be this challenging. I figured we\u2019d go around twice, maybe three times. \u00a0So, we got ready, we went around the lake once, plus a little more, for a total of 1.59 miles.\u00a0 We didn\u2019t even run the whole thing because E kept getting a side cramp and needing to walk it off.\u00a0 I don\u2019t think either one of us broke a sweat.\u00a0 I\u2019m not sure I burned more than 15 calories. \u00a0And my calves are still killing me.<\/p>\n

So, what\u2019s the moral of this story?\u00a0 I have absolutely no idea.\u00a0 I guess it\u2019s don\u2019t run stairs repeats at Castlewood when you\u2019re going to be stuck at home eating Blondie Bars for two days.<\/p>\n

Man I can\u2019t wait to get out there and log some miles tomorrow.\u00a0 But I think I might stay away from hills for another day or so.\u00a0 And I foresee see a big salad in my future.<\/p>\n

\"Ethan<\/a>

Ethan and I after his first 5k in November 2012<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What\u2019s worse than being stuck at home with a puking kid for two days?\u00a0 Being stuck at home with a puking kid for two days and making the bad decision to bake.\u00a0 Because when you\u2019re stuck in a house \u00a0with just one other person most of the time, who happens to be managing only Gatorade […]<\/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":[9,7,5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-lessonsfromrunning","category-onbeingasingleparent","category-randomthoughts","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4eO4v-2X","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ramblingrunnergirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183","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=183"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.ramblingrunnergirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":201,"href":"http:\/\/www.ramblingrunnergirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions\/201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ramblingrunnergirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ramblingrunnergirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ramblingrunnergirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}