March 9, 2007
I have always been prone to getting horrible side stitches while running. The first time I realized this was when I ran track in the sixth grade, a date long enough ago that we need not pay any more attention to it. I was reminded of this particular affliction, though, when we were running regularly last semester. I had made it several weeks into the plan we were following, without a single side pain, but then when we started the 5 min. run/1 min. walk week, the stitches were back. After more than a week of this, I had been very proud of myself when I made it a whole session without getting one and to celebrate, I convinced David we should go to REI and rock climb on their 'wall.' We had a lot of fun and I wrote a post about it, which I didn't put up at the time because I wrote it the day David called me to say he was being admitted to the hospital. And at that point babbling about my first successful climb didn't seem terribly important. But I've posted it here, should you have time to kill at work, or be particularly fascinated with all our doings.
All of which, really, is to say that we've started running again. Finally. We've been going to the gym since we got back to school, but it's just too damn cold in Pittsburgh to run outside in the winter and I am opposed to running on an indoor track, when I've already discovered the wonders of running on trails. But this week, schedules and the weather matched up perfectly and we've been running twice. We were both terribly afraid that we'd have to start completely over with the running plan, but we ran for 45 minutes today (5 min run/1 min walk), so I think we're fine. And we're so excited about it we've signed up for our first 5 km run at the end of this month. Should you be in Pittsburgh and want to run with us, you can register here. Otherwise, we'll tell you all about it when we're done. With, hopefully, nary a stitch in sight.
