despite his faults, today i’m going to have to adore president bush for the simple reason that he signed an executive order giving me (and, well, every other executive branch employee) the day after christmas off work! hurrah. i needed it; otherwise, i would have been working 16 hours on january 2 (so yes, i was gambling on dubya being nice this year).
my whole body sort of aches today after running for an hour and 45 minutes last night. wow. if you had told me two years ago when the whole running thing finally took (and stuck, on the umpteenth try) that i would be running for almost two hours last night, i probably would have laughed. but i did. buzz was with me for the first hour and 15 minutes, at which point she headed back to the gilruth with a bothersome foot. she’s in better shape anyway, so it wasn’t as important for her to get the entire run in.
the weirdest thing is that after 105 minutes, my body was so used to running that it was painful to stop. as soon as i slowed to a walk, my knees tightened up, and the tendon behind my right knee felt like a rubber band that had suddenly been stretched tight. it hurt. i walked a half mile, stopping every so often to bend my knees all the way, and they started to feel better. when i got back to the gilruth, i gulped down some water and started my post-run stretching.
as i stretched, there was a kid, probably in about 4th grade (though i have never been good at guessing ages), sitting in the lobby playing a recorder. it made me smile, and i stretched for an extra long time just to listen to him play.
