f/u (follow up)

[lauradi7dw]

After more delays (like going to get a headlight bulb replaced), I finally starting running, by which time it was almost 80 F. The plan had been to run about five miles, starting at home, running along side streets and then the bike path, and ending up at Arlington Heights in time to get the 62 bus back to Lexington. What I actually did was decide along the way to run to Alewife Station and get the 76 instead. I got there faster than I expected (65 minutes), and spent about 15 minutes wandering around and drinking water from faucet in the stinky women's room. I stretched for a lot of the bus ride home. We'll see how my muscles feel tomorrow, but short term I have my common problem that the incipient bat wing on my left arm and the edges of my toes have painful chafed spots. I was wearing running socks, and had spread some petroleum jelly on the relevant spots, but they still get rubbed. Unpleasant. I don't seem to have had a heart attack. The heart rate monitor I got via Freecycle doesn't work right (probably not a big surprise), but I think I tend to overheat while running and it probably taxes my circulatory system.

Comments

[calygrey.livejournal.com]

Gaaaah, don't drink water from a bathroom faucet. You'll curl up and die of disease. (Seriously though, it's never considered potable water.)

How far did you end up running?

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Really? I would drink water from a bathroom faucet, at least in the United States. I would drink water from a tap so long as it wasn't labeled *not* potable.

[calygrey.livejournal.com]

It's a Board of Health regulation. People's hands have been all over their butts, and then they touch the faucets, sinks, etc. Seriously not a good idea. Even in the US.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

*nods* --I see what you're saying about people's hands and things. I had been thinking about the purity of the water in the tap, but you've got a good point about the faucets and so on.

[calygrey.livejournal.com]

Not my point, I did years of summer camp and kitchens: Health inspectors care a very great deal about exactly where you get water - water from the bathroom may not be used for food prep.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Ah! Okay--thanks for the clarification!

[lauradi7.livejournal.com]

Huh. I let the water run a bit first (it's habit, based on an old either true or false suggestion that the first water when you turn on the faucet has more lead), but if we're talking leftover fecal matter, letting it run a bit probably won't do it.
For most of the past school year, I filled my water bottle out of the bathroom tap because the water that came out of the fountain in the hallway looked strange. Water isn't supposed to look like anything but water.
The distance was probably between 7 & 8 miles, the farthest I have ever gone without stopping (although I did stop long enough to wait for the Walk sign at the complicated Arlington Center intersection).

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I used to take that 76 bus, when I lived (briefly) with my grandmother in Lexington. Nostalgia :-)

I'm glad you didn't have a heart attack!