Oh the pain...

...but it’s a good thing. It’s not hurt pain, but the kind of pain that comes from doing a new activity. For me that was strength training yesterday. I haven’t strength trained in a long time…too long of a time…at least 2 months amount of time…that’s bad. It just wasn’t fitting in anymore. I cut back on it the week before my half to give a little “taper” and then I came back with only 2 or 3 weeks of training before taper when I would cut back anyway, so I figured what was the point so I’ve been non-strength training for that period of time since a week before my half. Yesterday I did my strength yoga and could feel it (heck I could feel it on Thursday when I did a bit of yoga to loosen up that evening), but then I weight trained for about 20 minutes after my run yesterday in the gym. I could tell my arms were going to hurt, everything felt week by about 5 pm yesterday and today my triceps (area I really want to tone up) , pecks and a little bit in my shoulders just aches. But this is a good thing. I’ll do it again tomorrow and then again on Friday and by then I probably won’t feel much of the pain anymore.

I’m about to head down for an elliptical session. I was going to run today and realized I ran Saturday, Sunday and yesterday, I better take a day off. I’m still in recovery mode for another week at least and don’t want to cause any pain or damage or setbacks on my recovery and weight loss phase right now. I have ChiRunning with me and plan to read that and my Runner’s World while working out. I really almost do wish I could run today though. I’d even run outside after work as it's not so terribly, unbearably cold right now, but unfortunately I have dinner plans tonight and can’t. Not sure how I’m feeling about this dinner thing tonight either. My roommate and I had talked about going to this place near us ever since she moved in. Tuesdays they have $3.99 burgers and fries and they have good burgers there. Well, she asked me when I was in DC if I wanted to be fixed up, immediate thought and answer for me in that questions is no, but I said we’d talk when I get back. She gives me some stats on him and number one thing is he is older than I want to date. I have been single a really, really long time. I’m set in my ways, and I don’t feel a need to have a child nor do I care if I ever get married anymore, I’ve come to terms with things and I like my life the way it is. I don’t need/want extras in there to have to report to, but I’m also open to meeting someone if they are exactly what I would want... This guy is a runner, so that’s cool, according to my roommate he’s attractive, but her and I are attracted to much different people, plus he’s 5 years older than the oldest range I want to be dating…the only plus is that he runs a 3:30ish marathon time. She is currently dating someone who is 18 years older than her, so age isn’t anything to her. She’s been out with many age ranges, but then she’s recently divorced after having been with the same guy for more than 10 years, me, I’ve been there done that and dated in the last 8 years and know what I want and what is acceptable to me. At this point I don’t really want the fatty burger and fries anyway as I want to lose some weight and that isn’t the way to do it, and I really don’t see a point in it…heck, she said we could work out a signal or situation if I wanted to stay there with him alone or if I wanted her to stay (his friend that my friend knows is going to be there as well), I’m sorry, but even that much makes it even more like a “date” and I don’t want that!! I’m totally freaked out and so not interested in doing this…I wish I had said a resounding no from the beginning. When she brought it up, I never gave an answer one way or the other and she kind of took it on herself to go ahead and arrange it…sigh…