so the past couple weeks have been a bit of a cluster, for a variety of reasons.
I have basically had two solid weeks of crap/no workouts. Lame.
The week before that, I really took step forward! I had 4 decent runs, as hoped for. I managed a bit over 24 miles in that time, which I was very happy about! Plus, Spring arrived, the snow melted, and all was well.
That weekend we also cranked out about 15 hiking miles in some chilly but solid weather. Cold enough to pause some of the rapid spring melt, but not so cold as to freeze us to death.
We checked off Pierce for April, and took the long walk up Moriah for the first time in a couple years.
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| Pierce for April! |
The following week..........
After two 12 hour work days, I got my Covid shot on Wednesday the 7th and the shit hit. I was DOWN and OUT. Easily the sickest I have been since I was in my mid 20's (yeah, I got pertussis when I was 28 and I'll NEVER forget that....) But this shot shut me down.
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| Great success! |
I suppose the good news is (thus far) I have managed to avoid the one in a million blood clot problem. Go me.
We did venture out for a very messy/shoulder season/muddy/monorail hike on Sunday, visiting Madison via Valley way for the first time in years (we did Madison Via Howker last summer.)
I felt great during the hike, but a little lethargic/super headachy in the following days, prompting me to continue my "rest".
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| Ellington on Madison |
ALSO, I was immediately slapped with three more 12 hour work days. SO, not exactly R&R by ANY stretch.
And THEN, it snowed and was gross.
AND THEN. I began to get these stupid, red, hot, ridiculously itchy rashes that apparently are something that can happen after the Covid shot. LOVELY. So that kind of slowed me down AGAIN GROSS WTF. I have never felt such itching. TMI. All over my poor legs and my shoulders and it was BAD.
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| This is how my shoulder rash looked. It was wayyy worse on my legs! |
UGH! So I think I managed 9 total miles this week and that is just plain silly.
On Tuesday I can register for Boston and see how my qualifying time from 300 years ago holds up.
Hopefully this coming week brings ZERO 12 hour work days, NO snow, 4 runs, and 1 hike and NO NO RASHES. And one successful Boston registration (we'll know in May, from the sounds of things. And then we just hope for fewer Covid cases and all that normal 2021 stuff.)
Oh, After my pretty decent week of mileage I was low key pissed to still be in second place in the challenge! BUT, we now have a biker in the lead, and you can't compete with someone who is putting in both running and biking miles. I did not even check after Covid shot week, because I was too sick/itchy/headachy to give a crap. And after this past week's lousy mileage I am currently in 8th place, the first 2 are almost finished, due to hundreds of miles of biking and there will be no catching them. Hopefully, in the upcoming weeks I can crawl my way back up at least a bit!
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