Two-mile run on the treadmill in the morning: fun, fun, fun. I can’t super-train in the running area of
this competition, because of my arthritic foot, so I’m just gonna take it in
spurts and when the event comes, do the best I can. But it sure felt good to run, even with the
pain in my foot. Ended the day with jazz
dance class, where the teacher put us through a warm-up that clearly indicated
he had no knowledge of what my legs had already done that day. (Oh, and just before that I RAN up the whole
Bethesda metro escalator as well, which is like a mile long.) My quads were on FIRE. Dance was sorta physically challenging, but
mostly mentally challenging with the choreography. It so hurts my brain to focus on opposition
while moving and turning, when all my brain wants to do is space out when the
going gets hard. But I made it stay and
work for me, and my almost total lack of ego (thank you, yoga) made it possible
for me to stay through a class where I am 25+ years older than everyone else,
oddly the most fit by far, and yet also clearly
the dorkiest dancer when it comes to getting the routines. I’m sure people wonder if I have a learning
disability. I wonder if I have a
learning disability.
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