Weekly wrap-up:
Well, winter has arrived! Making of for last year, from the looks of things. We have gotten probably around 6in of snow so far this week (a town about an hour or so north of us got 27in yesterday....anyone in the upstate NY area is probably going to get slammed on Sunday/Monday with lake-effect.) But what does the snow mean for me? Indoor running. *sigh*
Monday: holy soreness, Batman! Sunday's marathon of refereeing (it was 7 hours, so totally like a marathon!) was really wearing on me. And then I refereed a freshman/JV boys scrimmage. We practiced 3-person mechanics for this scrimmage, so there's a lot less running, but it's more brain-work for me since I'm used to working 2-person (more running, more things to look at) and the coverage areas are different. This was 90min long with about twice as much zone 2 hr than zone 3, so less intensity all around. Good active-recovery.
Tuesday: 2 hours of refereeing. We drove an hour each way to this game....we are hoping we also get paid for travel time since it was so far away. These games were extremely lop-sided in ability, so less intense again.
Wednesday: Thanksgiving "special person day" at preschool, and then a marathon of cooking sides and pies to take out to my parents' on Thursday. My kids changed their minds last minute about the Turkey Trot, but by then it was $40/person instead of $25, so I told them no. (DS3 was a little more disappointed since this was his last year in the 12-and-under age group.)
Thursday: Thanksgiving dinner and travel took up most of this day.
Friday: Did a big clean-up at the house. We're talking
hours of cleaning. And then DH and I ventured out to a few stores in the afternoon for groceries and a couple of organizational things. DH smoked a turkey in the evening and I made all of the sides for a Thanksgiving dinner to go with it because we really enjoy comfort food here. I had intended to run after dinner but ate way too much. I also made a pumpkin cheesecake, and the element on our oven burned out at the very end. We were super lucky it was done cooking! But now we won't have a functional oven until Wednesday.
Saturday: BIL/SIL and kiddos came over in the afternoon. We got stuff squared away for January, which ended up including a call to Disney since SIL has multiple
MDE accounts and we couldn't get her to show up on the resort reservation (LL consequences!), her park ticket was missing on her MDE account but showed up on someone else's. It was a whole mess. I intended to run for an hour before they came over, but got to 30min and quit. My achilles on my right leg has been troublesome, and everything in my legs just
hurt today. So, my goal for tomorrow is 60-75min, and then hopefully 90-120 on Monday. I have a massage scheduled for Monday as well.
Looking ahead: I did 27hrs and change of refereeing this month, but only managed just over 6mi of dedicated running. That's not great.
I need to not overdo things trying to "make up" for it in December. But I also need to quit making excuses to not run. Making sure I'm getting on the tread for at least 30-45min between referee days is going to be critical to my goal of finishing Dopey
"upright, healthy, and be a functional person the next day." This coming week I only referee 2 days, Tuesday and Saturday (a light week.) The 2nd week of December I referee 4 days: M, T, W, F (a heavy week.) And then another light week leading into winter break at school (aka winter break from refereeing before the insanity that will be January and February. There are going to be plenty of opportunities for me to haul myself onto the tread next month, I just have to DO it.
(Also, looking at my referee schedule post-Dopey should help motivate me to quit slacking because I have a week off and then am right back in it with 4 games in 5 days the following week.)
