Monday, November 17, 2014

Solo life for a night

My husband is almost never out of town for work overnight, but he left yesterday for Houston, so it meant a big night to myself. 

I got caught in this on the way home from Chinese class:


(I'm parked on the bridge, waiting for the mess below to open a lane so traffic on the highway could start moving again.  No escape on the bridge.  Good thing I had an audio book...)

Then I got my neighbor to walk with me to Lululemon to get a new pair of shorts I had been pondering for a couple weeks and concluded I really wanted.

Run: Speed Short*SE Reflective

(Not me, obviously, but now I'm concerned because I realized today the shorts aren't lined.  Ugh.  Nice for wearing over tights, but I don't wear tights often in Dallas!)

Then I came home and scavenged for dinner. I have no idea why. I'm an adult, I can make dinner for myself. But there was something fun about grazing. I think I had 3 tortillas, a piece of string cheese, a bit of couscous salad, and some ice cream. I never have dinners like that when we're eating together.

Then I stayed up too late watching TV and had the whole bed to myself.

I wouldn't love it if that were everyday life, but sometimes alone time at home feels like a little party. Hard to describe.

The rest of the weekend was uneventful. We did some much-needed house cleaning on Saturday. Our second floor is probably the cleanest it's ever been. Sunday I did my long run, but I mixed in a small race for a good cause. I was attempting to treat it as part of my long run, so I had a couple warm-up miles, the race, then a couple cool-down miles. I wanted to run with a pace group to make sure I didn't end up going too fast but within about a tenth of a mile, I knew that was not an option. One of the two pacers had the loudest and most irritating way of exhaling. I tried to tell myself that maybe she had some big story about how she used to smoke and had a double lung transplant and had to blow out really loudly. Or maybe she gets really nervous about races even when she's pacing and almost hyperventilates and so has to blow out really loudly for the first half mile to calm down. But I just couldn't stand it, so I pulled ahead of the pace group by just a minute or two, and just stayed there. I met a few interesting people. One woman was wearing a STG shirt from the same year I did it, so we talked about that race for a while. It was her first BQ, so we got to talking about other races. She ran Berlin this past year and we've both done a lot of the same ones. She still has to do NY and Tokyo in the majors, I still have to do London and Tokyo.

After the race, I had some pancakes but it was just so cold out. My phone said it was 39, but with the rain and drizzle that had been happening all morning, I was soaking wet and never thought I'd get warm again.

My solution was to take a very hot shower for about an hour, with the heat in the bedroom cranked up to 85 degrees, and while my husband was in the bedroom packing for his trip, I whined enough about my innards being cold that he went downstairs and heated up my coffee and delivered it to me. Aww, now I really miss him. Forget all that stuff I said about a solo night being nice...

But that whole concern about never being warm again?  Totally legit:
 
 
Yes, it looks like it will get better, but I might be frozen under the tundra by then. 
 

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  1. Wait, those aren't lined???? It says that they are online.

    I'm always looking for un-lined shorts.

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    1. Actually, I'm not sure. I'll have to look tonight and I'll let you know. I told Jennifer at Running on Lentils that I was going to buy them and then this morning, I realized she said they weren't lined after I'd already bought them. I paid no attention when I tried them on.

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    2. The conclusion is unlined. I tried them on at the store with underwear so I didn't notice. So now I'll take "runderwear" advice I guess...

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  2. Thanks for sharing - it is funny all the little things we do for each other that we don't really notice until we are away from each other. Last year when I did a lot of work travel Lisa noticed a lot of those little things.

    This weekend we got to spend loads of time together, where she normally has to work a lot and there is never enough time. So it was so awesome getting the full weekend together. But she also went out with a couple of work friends one night, leaving me alone for the evening. The b=kids were both out - one was with his girlfriend and the other was working tech crew with the school musical. So I similarly scavenged dinner - made spiced rice, tortillas, a quickie peanut butter fudge dessert, played some video games, and sat with the dogs watching Doctor Who :)

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  3. Yes, please let us know about the shorts. I didn't see thm myself, but I'd read the shorts & skirt are unlined.

    Dallas was on the news for how cold it will be tonight. I though about you! Keep warm!!!

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    1. You are correct -- unlined. And yes, insanely cold here this morning, but they're saying it's the end of it, warmer starting tonight. Whew!

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  4. Can't advise on runderwear for women, but I was so glad I bought some recently! Last year I ran with some compression shorts under my tights for the coldest days, but already this year we've had a couple days where I didn't need my heavy tights but the wind was strong enough that I was glad for the runderwear :)

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    1. I'm not buying runderwear to stay warm... But interestingly enough, my @ss is freezing when I get home from a cold run (I know it's because there's more fat there, and less blood flow than in muscles, but it's creepy dead cold sometimes!).

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  5. Unlined, eh? I might have to give these a try! Thanks for getting back!

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  6. i'm not sure, but i think it was nov 5th, i ran 16 miles in the rain and for the life of me, even after a hot shower, i was freezing all day. everyone at work thought i was an eskimo and kept laughing at me because i was shivering and they were all like, it's actually quite warm in here today. haha.

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