1. Last Thursday before I spontaneously decided to give blood when on my way home I saw a "Give Blood Donation" Sign. While I'm always glad when I act on impulse to do something good, even when its not convenient I'm not quite sure this was a good idea this time. For starters giving blood really negatively affects your endurance performance. When you give blood you donate a significant portion of your blood volume and therefore your oxygen carrying capacity decreases. If you were not aware O2 is predominantly transported in the blood via your RBC where it is dropped off to the cells all throughout your body. Your muscles need O2 in order to function aerobically (with oxygen) and your endurance is basically determined by your aerobic capacity. If you lose RBC through blood donation you are no longer able to transport as much O2 to the muscles and their endurance is impaired.
SO while I know all this, I decided it was a good thing to do so I donated blood anyways. Well to make a long story short within the next two days of giving blood I developed a sinus infection which meant that I had to call ARUP and tell them they couldn't use my blood :( because the infection would have been in my blood already.
Needless to say I'm rather sad I wasted my blood that I could be using. Oh well... I'm always glad for an opportunity to do something good, hopefully I'll be blessed for trying. Oh and that I won't suffer during the Bike MS next weekend because of it!
2. On Saturday after my run with TNT Josh and I rode 45 miles from our house in West Jordan almost to the Marina by the Great Salt Lake and back. I say almost to the marina because we had to turn back in order to get home for our dinner guests.
It was an awful windy day heading North West. It was hard to hold anything faster than 12 mph on our bikes. While it was tempting more than once to give up and turn back sooner we kept going as far as we could. Two things kept me from turning around sooner.
1. My ego- I've never been good at quitting
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3. Life has a funny way of showing its ups and downs. Sunday Josh and I took the dogs on a walk/picnic on the Bonneville Shoreline Trail. While eating our sandwhiches by the stream I watched, paralyzed, unable to react as my camera slid into the stream! I couldn't help but laugh. Not that I was thrilled to ruin yet another camera... but at the irony that I probably could have stopped it, yet I sat and watched...
Well when Josh pulled the camera out of the back pack and let it drain out we knew it was done for. However, there was a small hope that the warranty I bought at Best Buy was still current??? I meant to take the camera in on Monday but simply forgot.
Tuesday for my morning running class I dropped my jacket outside by the Huntsman Center when I started to warm up. I had intentions to come back and get it after class... but completely forgot until I got home. I called the office and had them see if they could find it... no luck. Its gone. My awesome Pearl Izumi Track jacket has been stolen :(.
However, when life has a down there is also an up. Tuesday night we took my camera into the Geek Squad at Best Buy and they looked up my warranty and to my dismay told me that my warranty had expired exactly 1 day ago! UGH! I couldn't help but be amused at the irony of life. But despite missing the warranty by a day, the guy helping me was still able to check it into their service center under warranty! I was SO relieved! and Thrilled! I feel so blessed that I was able to use the warranty! Granted its not a great camera, but I do not have money to replace it.
I can only hope that everything continues to work out well. This experience has reminded me the importance of a little faith and hope. Sometimes it is worth trying even when you don't think that you can do it.
The Moral of the story is: that really, despite resistance, ironies and problems its still a Wonderful Life
Happy Training,
Coach Becky
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