July 9, 2005
Another example how not to do things 
You know, it's bad enough to have bad days during the week, but a person shouldn't ought to have them on the weekend. Oh well.
I think for the last couple nights I've had heartburn that I've slept through. On one hand, that's great, but on the other hand, I feel so crappy after a heartburn episode. I'm thinking I should see the doc about this, because an episode means that I'll have a couple of days where I feel really worn down, like I've got a bad cold or something. I'm really tired of this, and I'm sure this isn't helping my esophagus any.
Anyhow. Very groggy this morning. Got to PFit a couple minutes after the faster walkers left, but I got my tukkus in gear and started walking. 9 miles today was the route. I was wearing the heart rate monitor and paying attention to it. A 20 minute 60ish% warm up, followed by racewalking form at 65-70%. Sounds good, doesn't it? The recipe for success.
And then, I started thinking. Man, I have to stop thinking on Saturday mornings, it's really doing me more harm than good. Even though I knew that doing intervals had really screwed up last PFit walk, even though I knew the PFit Saturday walks are long slow distance... even though. I convinced myself it would be a good idea to gallowalk today.
Gallowalking would be fine if I was in the cardio shape to do that, but of course, I'm not.
The walk went out to the waterfront, then over to the Springwater Corridor. My heart rate monitor started acting funky tout suite. I'd be racewalking hard, panting, and unable to get the heart rate about 64%. Or, I'd be jogging, and the heart rate monitor would be stuck at 62%. Or 92%. Whatever!
And jogging. What a bright idea. I didn't wear my kevlar bra because it rubbed me raw but good in several places during the Half, so I was just out in one of those shelf tank things, which, well, let's not go there. So I'm shuffling, hoping I'm not flopping around too much, considering the real potential damage if one or both hit my face. And I still feel like it's going to put the kibosh on me.
So, surprise surprise when I feel my left IT band start to complain. Oh crap. Oh crappity crap crap. I thought, come on, Vic, dig in and be strong, but it only got worse, and then I thought, oh yeah, I could dig in and get injured. Cool. Not.
By that point, I was downtown, with maybe a mile or a mile and a half to get to where I had parked la scootera azula, so I grabbed a couple of freebie zines, and took the streetcar back into NW.
The streetcar was about half and half tourists and residents. Most of the residents appeared to be coming from the PSU Farmer's Market, carrying bundles of lavender. Oh! I want some of that! The tourists were plainly marked with tourist maps given out by the Visitor's Association or Powells.
And I sat there in my skort, wearing my pink and black bad kitty socks, reading about a Chinese divebar that will be closing next week, and options for other Chinese divebars to go to. Ah, Portland, my Portland!
But. On the bright side, I did have encounters with wildlife. I saw a mallard duck with little striped ducklings, and I saw a feral cat family. Two black with redbrown undercoat "adults", and four kittens, three jet black, and one tiger. Someone has left food for them, but they are very very shy. Most of the time, the kittens hid under the blackberries, but occasionally one or more of them would come out, or cry out. The runt was a little black guy, who was very low-energy compared to his sibs. I was happy to see him nursing when I left. The other kittens were active and about twice his size, which is to say, miniscule. The "adults" were twice the kittens' size, also tiny. Adorable.
I told Sweetie about the cats, and he was like, "oh, I want to catch them, and take them to be fixed, and then put tags on them that say 'Leave me alone! I'm feral and fixed!' and let 'em go again." I love this man so much.
Posted at July 9, 2005
Comments
Love the bad kitty socks! Take care of that heartburn - esophogeal damage is no fun. I live on Pepcid AC - thank goodness we can get it over the counter these days!!!
Posted by: Nancy Toby at July 10, 2005 11:23 AM
I'd like to know if I can put a link to your blog on my blog. My blog is at mistypilgrim.blogspot.com. If it's not okay, that's cool. Figured it would be courteous to ask! Have a great day!
Misty P.
Posted by: Misty P. at July 11, 2005 2:18 AM
"...considering the real potential damage if one or both hit my face."
OMG, I can't believe you said that! :D
Posted by: Jon in Michigan at July 11, 2005 11:26 AM