Today’s Run:  Rest Day

I began my marathon training yesterday.  I was terrified!  Still am, actually.  Today and all Tuesdays are going to be the most difficult day of the week.  Rest Day.

I am so used to doing SOMETHING!  But everything I have read stresses the importance of resting on your rest days and that is something that goes against everything I know.  I do not like to be a “lazy daisy”!  I must be moving and using my time to accomplish things.

Today, I slept in until 5:00 and then made breakfast. These days we are eating breakfast pretty early so we can get out on our morning run ASAP.  Yesterday I waited too long and it was already in the 80’s F. for my early morning run!  Too hot!  Feeling the need to make myself useful, I walked the dog.  The dog was happy!

By 8:00 this morning I was a Lowe’s buying chicken wire.  By 9:00 I had built an enclosure around my chicken tractor so the hens would have a little bit of wiggle room outside the tractor but would not be able to go into the weedy field or the woods.

I cleaned house.  I did three loads of laundry.  Visited the chickens a zillion times.  Picked up my sons car from the shop…this rest day is for the birds.  I would be better off just going for a run and getting this restlessness out of my system.

So, tomorrow is a scheduled run day.  YAY!!!  I will be good and tired and feel like I did something productive.  I can hardly wait!