Running for Jen

I was able to sleep in a little bit this morning, but was happy to get myself up and out the door by 7:45am.  This is still too late given the heat, but it was earlier than I have been getting out the past few days.  It helped that the dogs went back to sleep with my husband.  I felt alright for the most part.  Needless to say, it was warm.  Temperatures are supposed to hit the upper 90's again today.  The only issue that I ran into today was that someone took my water bottle.  I am not sure if they wanted what warm water was left or they thought it was garbage.  I was almost done when it happened and there was only a 10 minute window in which the theft took place.  I guess that it was bound to happen.

This was brutal!  With this being my final day off before going back to work, I decided to sleep in.  I didn't get up until 7:30am and by the time that I got up, got dressed, ate and walked the dogs, it was just about 9:00am when I stepped foot outside to run.  I don't know officially if it was warmer this morning than it has been the past couple of days, but the heat just sucked the life out of me.  I knew things would not be good when I wanted to walk after mile 2.  I wound up walking quite a bit, especially during the last mile.  Days like this happen.  I just read a little while ago, that we are under another heat advisory until tonight.  Temperatures are scheduled to hit the upper 90's again, with the heat index around 110 degrees.  I will be back on my work schedule tomorrow, which means early rising for me.

Back to Work!  I was up at 4:30am so that I could get outside by around 5ish.  It was dark, but I wanted to see how comfortable I would be running outside at this hour.  It wasn't bad, but I did find myself looking over my shoulder from time to time.  I had a little flashlight with me that helped when I ran through the particular dark spots.  It was very nice not to feel suffocated by the heat of the sun, although it was still quite warm out there.  I could tell because at mile 2, I looked down at my watch using my flashlight and noticed that my arms were already shiny from the sweat.  I finished in under 11 minute miles (finally). Since today was day 6 in a row, my plan is to take tomorrow off and run again on Thursday.

Today was first day back at the gym in at least a couple of weeks.  It was alright for the most part.  I thought that I may have a shot at getting 7 miles in, but unfortunately, I had some stomach issues that limited my day to 6 instead.  I was also trying to get into work a little earlier since we were having an open house at 8:00am.  Outside of the stomach, I felt fine on the treadmill.

I was up at 4:40 this morning after a lousy nights sleep.  I chose to run outside instead of going to the gym.  Because I got up a bit later, I had more light towards the second half of my run.  Once again, I ran my four loops of 1.75 miles each.  It wasn't a very good run.  I was tired and I believe a tad stressed with the first day of school approaching next week.  There is always so much to do the final day of pre-planning and the weekend prior to the first day.  I did walk on occasion, but ran the majority of it. It was warm, but not awful since I wasn't dealing with the sun.

I was exhausted this morning.  Getting back to waking up at 4:30am really took its toll on me this week.  I decided to sleep in so that my body could rest up a bit.  Since it was so late when I got up, I decided to go to the gym with my husband.  He was kind enough to add on time to his workout time so that I could get my miles in.  My original plan was to run 10 miles, which is what I usually do on Saturdays, but I was satisfied with 8 mainly because I felt so sluggish this morning.  I have found that the one downside to sleeping in is that I tend to think about my running too much.  When I get up at the crack of dawn, I don't really give it too much thought.  I just get up, eat and head out the door.