{"id":654,"date":"2011-05-12T15:49:48","date_gmt":"2011-05-12T15:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/?p=654"},"modified":"2012-08-31T16:31:33","modified_gmt":"2012-08-31T22:31:33","slug":"one-of-those-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/?p=654","title":{"rendered":"One of Those Days"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Run\"<\/p>\n

The day we had left my brother\u2019s place, my brother Cam and I got up early to get in a run together. I don\u2019t often get many opportunities to run with people, especially my brothers\u2026so I thought it\u2019d be fun. I came back looking the above picture…actually, I was already deathly pale beforehand and any people seeing me must’ve thought I was anemic. (side-note: yesterday I tanned…a little. This photo is my main inspiration)<\/p>\n

The company for the run was great\u2026the run\u2026not so hot. It was one of the worst runs of my life. I woke up feeling icky and overtired. Not a pleasant start. Pretty much the whole time I ran (it was around 8 miles) I had cramps. In addition, I felt nauseated and the cramps started crawling up my side and spread into my shoulder and neck. So strange. My energy levels amounted to a turtle on sedation meds. Oh joy.<\/p>\n

It was just one of those days\u2026and I have to realize that I can\u2019t kick myself too long about those sorts of things. I tend to be a perfectionist and I have very high expectations for myself. So when I fall short of what goals I have for myself, it\u2019s really easy for me to mentally beat myself up about it. But you can\u2019t. It\u2019s stupid. Everyone has a day where everything goes wrong and you have no energy.<\/p>\n

My brother basically ran circles around me\u2026he\u2019s such a speed whiz and I\u2019m proud to have such an amazing runner for a brother. He really encourages me to improve my running skills, yet is encouraging for what little skills I might have. Yah, he\u2019s nice. I really like it when you can have bits of conversation with someone when you run\u2026makes things a little more fun.<\/p>\n

\"Run<\/p>\n

We found this sign (pardon the i-Pod camera) and then my brother remembered that there was a 5k going on. We ended up running a little bit of the trail against the flow of the race, which was fun. Seeing runners get me excited\u2026I\u2019m always pointing out runners on our band\u2019s road trips and exclaim, \u201cLook! There\u2019s a runner! \u2026Oh, another one!\u201d I get polite nods from my travel companions who secretly think I\u2019m slightly strange.<\/p>\n

\"Run<\/p>\n

By the end of the run my foot injury was returning. Ignore setting was activated. Note to self: Find some sort of exercises for my tootsies. ( I\u2019m just thankful it takes a few miles for it to start bothering me.) Oh, and find out what stops running cramps.<\/p>\n

So there. One winner of a run, right? Recently I read a post by Skinny Runner<\/a> who had a post about days where you have a bad run\u2026that post totally cheered me up. This is a crazy girl who runs marathons and loves insane challenges. So I guess even the professional runners all have their days…or maybe like…a day. Me=days.<\/p>\n

My brother Cam inspired me too; it doesn\u2019t seem to matter if he has energy or not, he just goes and gets \u2018er done. All my brothers are like that.<\/p>\n

Once we were back, I had my routine ice bath and guzzled electrolyte water. Then we had an epic breakfast of eggs and toast. Perfect.<\/p>\n

Even though it wasn\u2019t the most stellar run, it always makes you feel so good the rest of the day and it certainly inspires me to drink more, get quality sleep, not stay up late, train smarter, and eat better. And then as my brother says, \u201cThere are just some runs you have to fight through.\u201d<\/p>\n

In this case, fighting is a positive thing.<\/p>\n

For you runners, what do you do when you have a bad day? Do you have any good foot exercises for me? How do you combat cramps?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The day we had left my brother\u2019s place, my brother Cam and I got up early to get in a run together. I don\u2019t often get many opportunities to run with people, especially my brothers\u2026so I thought it\u2019d be fun. I came back<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":656,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,74],"tags":[1625,157,159,1627,1624,1626,158],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=654"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3454,"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654\/revisions\/3454"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colourfulpalate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}