Lessons

Things Not to Do the Night after a Long Run:

1. Skip your ice bath. You will go to bed stiffer than the Tin Man.
2. Watch Ice Road Truckers until 11:30. You will not be able to fall asleep until midnight because you will be replaying the moment where Lisa and Ted seperately almost drive their trucks off the same of the Andes' mountains in your head.
3. Only drink half a bottle of gatorade. Hand-cramping due to a lack of salt will occur and you will look like an old Wiccan with spindly, crooked fingers when you try and grab your hairbrush to put in your bag.
4.  Leave your car key off its chain and convince yourself that, "Oh, duh, it's totally in my purse and I'll find it before Master's tomorrow!" It will not be in your purse. You will spend 10 minutes looking for it the next morning, get exasperated, give up, use the spare to drive to the practice you are now sort of late for, and then realize when you get home that the key in question is, in fact, hanging on the house key rack. Win.
5. Wear compression sleeves that come past your knees and onto your rather muscular thighs. Indents from your socks are not sexy, especially when you don them with your geeky 10k tech t-shirt and 90's throw-back gym shorts the next morning.