Against all odds, I got my cutie patutie up and went out for a morning run with a friend of mine. I’m calling her Black Girl Swim from now on as she is embarking on a journey to complete a triathlon and has NEVER swam before. Soooooo super proud of her and looking forward to her being in a pool without 30,000 flotation devices. I am not exaggerating, I have pics, which I very well plan to use as blackmail one day =P While I will never share her enthusiasm for a TRI, mainly because I don’t swim in waters I can’t see under, I will do what it is I do, and support my girl…FROM LAND!
I titled this post with a reversed line from R Kelly song not because I have an overwhelming desire to go back 20 years in time and create a video with Mr. Kelly (complete with Mr. Big interludes) but because my body has been fighting me everyday to stay in bed. Not sure what is going on but I am NOT sleeping well at all. I wake up in the morning feeling like I’ve been run over by a truck and as luck would have it, am generally wide awake until like 1 or 2 every morning. As a result, last week training sucked donkey butts, better know as double a$$es!
However, I did complete a little under 4.5 miles this morning, an hour later than usual, which meant I was BURNING up! When we started it was 78 degrees…at 7:45am! Why o’ lord, why? However, I convinced her to do the bridge route I’ve wanted to do for a while. So we had a good breeze going for a good portion of it. It was gorgeous just as I expected. I wish I could have taken pictures but that would have required me to stop and release my phone from my arm contraption thingie. And odds are if I stopped, I would have NEVER picked back up. So here are some public shots I pulled, for those that have never seen either.
Anyway, my legs feel great but as soon as I got back in the house, I fell back to sleep and stayed there for a good hour. And get this, after a combined 8 hours of sleep, I am STILLLLLLLLL sleepy! SOOOOOOOO super annoying. Either way, there will be no more sleep. I must get up and teach the class that I actually have to actively teach, Intro to Hip Hop for adults. I say actively teach because my students give me about 70% of what I put out, so unless I work FULL OUT my students are basically NOT moving! So onto Intro to Hip Hop!
And ps…I just realized DC just claimed the title for the second year as the fittest city in the US. So proud to have contributed to that. And completely against all odds considering I was born in the fattest (or should I say Most Sluggish) cities in the US. yay, for running black girls!
Laters,
An anonymous black girl who despises when her body doesn’t get the memo that it needs to work off the three pieces of cake it’s consumed this weekend..OOPS!!!
ahhh home sweet home. is that the route we were going to run?
i feel you on the heat (though i’d take 78 degree temps in a heart beat right about now!) it’s not even summer yet and our average days are already mid to upper 90s with high humidity. we get no reprieve at all morning, noon or night! i remember one day last summer i started a 22-mile training run at 4:30 a.m. and it was already 84 degress with 100 percent humidity. now that sucked!
p.s. tampa is 23rd for fittest cities. not good. can i move back to dc now?
84 degrees a 4am is insanity!!!!
And it’d make my day, week, year if you moved back to dc =P
I totally understand how you feel when your body is saying no and your mind is saying yes. You still went running though and will teach that hip hop class! Very comendable! Hope your taking vitamins and drinking lots of water with all that running; feel better soon!
“i don’t see nothing wrong…”
how fun! a dance class. you would make fun of me and laugh. haha. i have no skills. maybe boost up the indoor workouts while adjusting to the heat and slogginess outside? i’m glad to know i’m not the only one who just feels slow and cruddy…
I would NEVER make fun of a student (fingers secretly crossed behind back…smile!)
Yeah, that’s a good idea. I want to get in the pool everyday now. these are the days, my black girl hair gets VERY annoying ={