76o 85% humidity- 4:35 am Not too shabby.
Garmin quit working before .10 miles..batter low. Oh, well. I knew what the distance was because I'd just done it recently.
I've never run this certain road in the dark by myself before. But I couldn't bear to bring myself to run circles in the 'hood. So I set out on the "busy" street. The first 6 miles, there weren't many cars. 12 total going out & back. So avg one car every 5 minutes, but it wasn't really like that...there were some spots where I didn't see a car for 1.5 miles. It is all fields with just a house here & there. quiet & nice.
The second part of my run, the last 3 miles, were in the other direction on that road, and it was busy. It got busier as time went on. I guess it was around 6 when I ended, and by then people were up & driving to work. This part of the run has houses & neighborhoods along the road almost the whole way. I had 21 cars and one school bus go by in those 3 miles.
I think in the future, I'm better off going back on the farm end of the road. It would be repeating the same path, but there probably won't be as many cars.
No road kill, just an empty can of cocktail weiners. probably made out of roadkill!
No idea what my pace was, but I could feel that I was changing gears and speeding up after a couple of miles warmin up. I'm confident that I had a good pace- and I was pleased that I finished feeling strong.
got home, stretched, and did 100 crunches on the ball. Then I got ready for work, and looked at the agenda they'd sent for the week, and noticed that we are starting an hour later today than normal. I could kick myself in the butt...I could have slept in another hour!!! AAARRRRGGGGHHHHH!!!
But it gave me time to work on this little blog and I got to eat my chocolate oatmeal breakfast again. Haven't had that for a while :-)
Now it's off to work I go..... I sure did enjoy my vacation. | 