So very sore...

3-9-10
I’m sore all over. I love it. So one thing about P90X that I’m starting to realize is that it makes your body want to go, go, go all the time. I frequently walk into my office with the urge of doing pushups (sometimes I just drop down and bust out 20 or so). But, as I said yesterday, I started running again last week, and I have been craving the burn and sweat (I think that’s a little crazy, but I think you need to be a little crazy to get through this program). So, not only have I stepped it up with the workouts, I’m running pretty hard.
So a buddy of mine asked me a couple weeks back to include him when I start running again. We ran together last Friday after I got off work, and I was impressed with his in shape-ness. He plays soccer, so I’m not totally surprised, but he told me he didn’t think he could run three miles and we did that easily. Anyway, he was talking, during our run, about wanting to get in better soccer shape. So last night I put together a moderate interval workout but we had to postpone due to rain (I still ran in it, but track sprints wouldn’t have been a wonderful thing). Not wanting to skip yesterday’s run, I ran hills in the rain for four miles. I know this might not seem like a long distance, but it’s my old loop and the hills make it tough. I’m in as good of shape as I was when I was running everyday (also when I went out as Michael Phelps for Halloween… use your imagination). So, I’m pretty happy about this. After I finished my run I texted my buddy and asked him to let me know when he wanted to re-schedule, and to my surprise, he said “tomorrow.” This got me a little worried. For starters, I had plyo this morning and that’s always tough on the legs. I also ran hills last night (then went out on the town), so I expected this morning’s plyo workout to be very difficult. And now I have to run intervals? Oh NO! Well… Oh YES!
Now for the workout discussion: Getting out of bed was bad this morning. I was sore. My eyes were burning. I owned the plyo workout. I don’t need to go into details, but I’m just in really good shape. Also, to my surprise, the workout actually helped my soreness (or maybe the other way around – my soreness actually helped my workout- I don’t know). While I’m extremely sore now (3 hours later), the workout was nothing. I’m pumped for my interval this evening. I just can’t get hurt. Maybe one of us will throw up (won’t be me)… BRING IT!!!!! ARGH!!!!