Tuesday: Speed Sessions, Yoga and Gilad

There are many times in my life when I have thought that I would like to relive the previous five seconds.  The amount of helter skelter than can take place in five seconds is one of the great marvels of life.  I would like to relive the five seconds that it took me to trip over my feet and skid across the junior high gym in front of all of the other seventh and eight graders, I would like to relive the five seconds at an art showing where a kind man introduced me to his "partner" and I said "Oh, you're a lawyer".   He was not, and he meant his "domestic partner".  I would like to relive the five seconds that it took me drop a bucket of paint in the bathroom that I was painting and thus spend hours cleaning it up.  Today, however, there is a new front runner for the five seconds that I would most like to relive.

As I changed Young Sloan's terrible diaper this morning, it somehow catapulted from my hand and landed face down on the floor splattering its contents everywhere and seeping into the cracks in the hardwood.  The more I cleaned, the more human fecal matter seemed to me on the floor and a bit on the wall.  It will not seem to completely eradicate from the floor, and I will not even get started on the smell.  There is something very depressing about wearing your leopard wedges and having diaper discharge under your fingernails and on the back of your hand.  It is really terrible.  Anyway, we were late to school and I was late to Bible study and I came home early to continue cleaning.

In other news, this morning was the first speed session of the winter season.  My alarm went off at 5:15 AM, I was slightly early, and I was quite proud of myself.  Since today was the first session, we had a time trial, so we warmed up for a mile, ran two miles at our fastest, then ran a few cool down laps.  Just like last year, I mixed up my Garmin and it seems that I ran about a 13:35 or maybe a 13:40 two miles.  This was not as fast as last year, which makes me think my suspicions about my current running ability might be true.  I am just not running well right now, and I hope it is not the beginning of a long decline.

Throughout my speed sessions, I am going to try to get in a Yoga workout on the days that I go to speed sessions.  So, my Yoga session was great today and I felt so much better afterwards that I also got in a Gilad workout as well.

Overall, though I deeply dislike dragging myself out of bad as early as I did this morning, I dearly love being finished with my workout before I have even had my breakfast!!