What a collosial bummer! The race got canceled!
Okay, I have to admit that as bummed as I was, I was also relieved. The weather today was AWFUL. I was already doubting my abilities in the dark. To add “cold” and “wet” to the list of challenges was not terribly appealing to me. Actually, before it got canceled, my mom had already bowed out of what she was calling, “The Run for Pnemonia.”
Although I was relieved, I was also disappointed that we weren’t gonna run in the cruddy weather. Part of me was thinking that some of the ‘serious’ runners, the people who KNOW they can run fast and the people who are gonna run whether they win the Cave Creek Luminaria run or not, I thought that maybe some of those people wouldn’t bother showing up to run this event in bad weather, so I thought that maybe my chances to win a medal were slightly increased, but no such luck.
The extra bad news is that they rescheduled the race for the day before the Marathon. By that time, I think I won’t care how fast I am. I’ll be so focused on the Marathon that the training will pretty much be over in my mind. Plus, I don’t think I want to risk an injury the very day before the Marathon, trying to win a dippy medal at a Luminaria run. Well, we’ll see what I do, I don’t know.
In any event, since I had planned to do this night run, I did not run in the morning or do any other exercise before work, other than just riding my bike to work. When I finished work around 1 or 2 in the afternoon, we got my mom and went out to lunch instead of waiting for dinner, but we didn’t do any exercise after lunch, so I just pretty much missed my exercise today. I still really felt like I should replace the canceled race with something – this was supposed to be a cross-training day, but I just never got around to it and the day just sorta slipped away from me.
I guess it just supports what I already know about myself – if I don’t do my exercise in the morning, it is pretty much just not gonna happen at all. Okay, so, oh well, I missed one day and I didn’t bother to make up the lost workout. I think I’ll survive. I just need to not begin to go down a slippery slope just because I missed one. I could very easily do that, I know.