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When I worked at the Mansion on Turtle Creek, I used to work a lot of back to back shifts. Meaning, I would work until 11 pm the first night and would begin working at 7 am the next morning. With a 20 minute commute home and a 30 minute commute back to work, that gave me approximately 6 hours of sleep. I was given a lot of back to backs...those were the days.

I have a new kind of back to back in my life, and I experienced my first one of my new training season this morning. After work yesterday I ran 2.75 miles, finishing up about 8 pm. This morning my alarm went off at 6:10 am (I pushed snooze until 7:30) at which point I sprang out of bed (read: silently cried as I forced myself to put on my shoes) and raced toward the door (read: stared longingly back at the bed and the slight impression that I could still make out in the sheets) to hit the open road (read: to be hit by the open road).

I ran a short couple miles and then had to get ready for work (see comment above regarding 1 hour and 20 minutes of snooze button heaven). Certainly not a long run, but in combination with last night's efforts, it's enough to make my legs feel like putty for the rest of the day.

Back to backs at the Mansion were hard on my social life...back to backs in running are hard on everything.

Timmy

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