Well, nothing ever goes as planned. Or even if it goes as planned, it’s not how you expected.

The plan for today was an easy 20 minute run.

I woke up with a headache and generally not feeling well, so I didn’t run this morning.

Being that there’s a tax deadline tomorrow (corporate extensions), we had a good amount of things to do at the office. So, the hour-long power outage was not welcome today (especially since the gym is closed for school use during that time and we couldn’t ditch the office for a post-lunch workout!) The power outage set us way back, and we were at the office until 6:30. I was exhausted and at that point, planned on going home and crashing – meaning, no run. Given that we have no clean plates at home (how did that happen?), we decided to eat at El Chubasco. As we were leaving, I got an email from a client about one of the corporate returns – that he’s leaving for the airport at 8 tomorrow morning. So we found his number and had him meet us at the office tonight to get the return.

After this, I found I actually had plenty of energy to go to the gym thanks to dinner. Chris felt better after dinner, too, so we headed to the gym.

As is often the case with runners, making yourself do the easy runs, and doing them easy, is very difficult. But, I did it. I ran easy, breathed easy, and didn’t try to beat anything. I did calibrate my Nike+ afterward to hopefully improve the distance accuracy for tomorrow…when I have my first interval training run planned.

I am of course very glad I ended up getting my run in tonight. There’s nothing quite like the peacefulness your body feels post-run, and I’m glad I’ll have that trying to go to sleep tonight.