I ran tonight after my last Corn Fest board meeting. I knew I had to and had a little bit of time before the sun totally set. Got home and out I went. Ended up running 3.5 miles but it was not a recovery run. Just over race pace for the first 2 miles. Whoops. My legs, specifically thighs, were a bit sore from my long run. I could feel my hip starting to hurt around 2.5 miles. But I stuck it out, I slowed it down in that mile and I think it did the trick. My heart was racing near the end though. A minute or so after stopping, I checked my pulse manually and I counted around 160. Not too high but my heart rate comes down quickly.
I was also dripping sweat at the end of the run. 90% humidity and for some odd reason I wore a short sleeved shirt instead of a sleevless one. Not so sure what I was thinking there. Another odd thing is that I wore my visor. It was a sunset run so something that I really didn't need to wear but it's habit now. Plus it keeps the hair off my face. But I think it hindered me in this run. I had it up for most of the run so it was mostly off my forehead. I was DRIPPING sweat when I came inside. It was crazy; off my elbows, down my wrists, off my nose. So funny and weird!!
Also, on this run, over by the river, there was something dive bombing me. It was a bat. At first I couldn't quite tell but when it went out of the woods a little bit and the sky was behind it, I could see that it was indeed the silhoutte of a bat. Now I'm not too scared of bats. I kinda grew up with bats. They would always come down the fireplace and circle around the ceiling. My dad would come in with his net and catch it and let it go. It happened a few too many times in the 7 years we lived in that house!
So here's my bat story related to it.
A few years back, this guy I was dating and I came over to my place after a bar one night. We promptly went to bed and to sleep. Well, I didn't sleep right away. I kept hearing something. I finally rolled onto my back and looked up. I saw something flying in circles around the ceiling. After a few minutes I realised that it was pretty big. I woke up the guy, and told him to look up. He screamed, asked what it was and hid under the covers. I eventually said that we need to get out of my bedroom cause I think it's a bat. So he went running out to the living room. I went out as well but I knew I needed to capture it.
Eventually, after thinking about it for a while, I found a blanket and decided to try to throw it up in the air and knock it down. After a few tries and it landing in my window blinds, I managed to get it down and had the blanket over it. I saw it moving under the blanket. So I realised that I needed to pick it up. I grabbed a vinyl so I could slip it under the bat. It was the only thing I had. This was all done while the guy was in the living room, on the couch, not helping at all. Once I did that, I headed outside. He was nice enough to open the door for me. Keep in mind that I was in my sleep clothes of just an oversized t-shirt but this was also at 2:30am. I took it outside, down to the sidewalk and threw the blanket off of it. Then sat on the stairs and waited for it to take off.
Now this all happened within 30 mintues I guess so. It was the longest to figure out how to knock it down out of the air and actually doing so. I still don't know how the bat got inside. I would have felt it if it was on me or seen it if it was on him. What I just find most funny out of all of this is that I was doing all the work while the guy took off for the hills. I was remembering this story on the run today and just started giggling to myself.
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