it was gnarly. hurts this morning, taking the dressing off and soaking in warm salty water was not enjoyable. i can stand on it now but rolling through that toe isn't happening yet.
stubbed my right big toe so badly last night that the nail bed filled with blood and started leaking. went to the podiatrist today, she removed the nail to make sure there wasn't a serious cut under there that could have gotten infected. turns out no cut, the blood was coming from the base of the nail. still, pretty freaking gross. so yeah, no running yesterday or today. she did say i could go back to it tomorrow but let's see how the toe feels.
right now it just feels like it isn't there, because of the novocaine.
- run 48:54, 9.41 km finally managed to get myself up to run before work again and didn't have any early calls to compete. did the middle ~3 km on a park trail almost completely out of sight of any road. god i love DC. much more climbing than i'm used to: typical runs around my parents' were 55 feet/mile. this route was over 90 feet/mile. but very much uphill-downhill so coming home was easier.
- run 46:52, 9.20 km went to roosevelt island for the first time in my life. ended up on some trails that were overgrown, jumping over and ducking under logs, having to navigate a little. pretty surprising given that georgetown or arlington are in sight practically the whole way around! it was fun.
- run 42:28, 8.85 km first run starting at my new place. there's a steep downhill scramble onto the rock creek park path literally across the street from the building. sick. ran along potomac, around behind lincoln memorial, around washington monument, past white house/BLM plaza, and back. not bad for winging it. will try running up the river in the other direction next time.
- stretch god that felt good. so stiff.
comcast guy came this morning so i finally have internet. thought i'd be able to set it up on my own but nah, landlady literally had never used the internet in here so the guy had to connect to the exterior cable.
low back and biceps feeling it a bit. still don't have internet in the new place because the modem won't connect. the pin the coax cable that comes out of the wall is bent. back at parents' for the night and will try again in the morning with a pair of pliers.
spent the day cleaning out my new place and picking up some stuff for it. gotta pack some more tonight and then tomorrow load the truck. moving in for real monday afternoon!
- GMB standing warm up - meditate x 10 mins very restless mind this morning
evening
- run 48:10, 9.70 km had to take a shit for the last ~15 minutes, then explosive diarrhea and big fart the second i sat on the toilet. not sure where that came from, otherwise i feel fine. fun!
- stretch
i feel like i've been treading water with running this winter and it's lapsed into a kind of sad dog paddle.
started to get a tension headache today, did a bunch of massage and mobilization, it continued to get worse, took ibuprofen and lay down for 20-30 mins, then started to practice guitar. it is receding. deep breaths.
of all that the guitar seems most helpful. trying to learn the intro to this song (en route to learning the whole thing, obviously, but the intro uses a technique, finger rolling, i hadn't learned before, so it's taking a while.)
slept like garbage last night. had one continuous dream about my two most meaningful exes, which i may or may not have awoken in the middle of. in the first part, i was lying on the floor with the most recent ex and nicole aniston, the porn star. we were all naked. ex had invited nicole aniston to have sex with me after ex used clippers to trim my pubes. this was all a big surprise. i knew that she'd have liked me to trim my pubes, although she never specifically asked about it, and in the dream she seemed really excited by the whole thing, so i went along with it. i find nicole aniston very unattractive, so i was worried i wouldn't be able to get it up. and in fact, when she started to straddle me i was still limp. then, suddenly, time had passed. i was standing in the same room but with my previous ex sitting on the floor. both of us clothed. she was looking at me mournfully, pouting, but not saying anything. then i looked around and noticed that she'd taken all of her things out of the room. she was moving out and breaking up with me and it was a fait accompli. i was taken aback by the suddenness and finality of it, which was true of my actual breakup with that ex. then she was not there anymore and i was alone, looking around at the stuff that was left.
you don't exactly have to be freud to note that i am craving both physical and emotional intimacy and that i miss both of my exes.
anyway, on the upside i was awake super early this morning so i went for a run after missing last night because of work.
- run 8.05 km in 40:48 felt absolutely wonderful, need to commit to morning exercise because it makes the rest of the day so much better.
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