Day 4,242—on the Waitlist—

 

        After taking it easy for two weeks, I am getting restless. It is not like my left foot and hip feel completely healed, but today I was reflecting on all the past pain I would obsess over when it first happened, and then slowly over time it would become decreasingly important. Enough cannot be said about the power of a good night's sleep, and I have gotten several of those this past week, and if I am looking forward to anything over the next break, it is getting some good rest.

        It is hard with the cats, but it gets easier the longer I stay home. I signed up for the Shippey 100! Yesterday! I wanted to watch all the videos from my races this year as a kind of retrospective of all I have done this year, and I got distracted after watching the Shippey 100, thinking about how cold it was, yet it was still fun. I don’t remember being miserable a lot. I remember thinking how cool it was that I was doing this, and I was still moving and doing fine. I also remember being annoyed with all the water crossings!

        I suddenly realized I wanted to do a special run for my birthday, but I had run out of time to sign up for anything out of state next weekend. I found this one, Temptation 100, that looked like the perfect lowkey ultra, only a few hours away, but it was full, so I took the plunge and signed up for the waitlist. The Shippey only had a few spots left, so I am glad I didn’t wait too long.

        I hope I find out soon if I am going to be able to do the Temptation. I want to say no, it is not that likely, but I don’t really know, and it worries me slightly because I had to enter payment information to be on the waitlist, so would they just charge me without asking me, even if it is like a couple of days before?

I don’t want to commit to anything right now, but I am thinking of doing some sort of 100-mile outing next weekend regardless, so maybe it won’t be a huge deal if I end up running an official one on Saturday.

It was so cold today, but better than yesterday! I have all the cold weather equipment, so I am not afraid of running in the cold, but it is so much more difficult to run through a field of snow compared to the alternative. 

It is my mom’s birthday today. Happy birthday, mom!