I think there will soon be a new medical condition defined. I’ve heard of tennis elbow and runner’s knee. Today I’m experiencing classic symptoms of wii arm. This occurs when you play the wii sports and wii dance against your kids for a couple of days straight. You get the wii arm. Symptoms include sore arm, tired shoulders, and inability to lift arm. I’m guessing a little rest and the symptoms will go away.
Tonight marks the 1 week mark of consistency. I’ve not taken more than one day off. In this case that means I’ve run only 3 days last week but will run 4 this week. I’d like to reach 5 days a week consistently for 4 weeks. (Actually for much longer but I’ll set the goal for 4 weeks).
I had a hard time starting off tonight. Apparently someone poured concrete into my legs and took me nearly a half mile to shake that off. The run was mostly non-eventful. I had the chorus of dogs keep me company throughout the different parts of the neighborhood. I’m noticing that some of the night noises I used to hear 3 years ago when we moved in are now gone. Mostly I miss hearing the whippoorwills in the evening.
I actually took my shirt off after mile 2 and just ran in my sports top. I normally don’t do that as folks down here in GA are conservative and find that weird. I just couldn’t cool off tonight. The humidity was higher than normal and it felt like I was trying to push a wall down the road as I ran. I checked the weather after I showered (around 10:30 PM) and saw that the temps were still 95 at that late time. Wow! No wonder it was such a hard run. | 