With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams...

little 2 mile walk around the hood with MR

Around 3 am, I felt something crawl over my foot in bed.  After  a frightening few minutes, I realized it was just MR's hairy foot (not Hobbit hairy, but hairy nonetheless).  I laid in bed for over 20 minutes and couldn't go back to sleep, so I got dressed and headed out for a run.

At 3:50 am, it was 53 degrees outside and just perfect!  No moonlight, some starts, a little bit of spotty cloud cover and a light breeze.  Best part of the run was there was almost no one else out on the roads and I had them all to myself. Just me & the Duke out on the roads.

I saw a car at mile: .36, 5, 5.4, 6.8, 7 (2 cars), 8 (2 cars)... so in 9 miles, I saw 8 cars.  And most of them were in the 2nd half of the run.  After 5 am, the traffic started picking up.

I stopped at 5.56 to adjust my knee brace, and when I tried to start my watch back up, it gave me an error message that the memory was full.  I just ran the rest of the way home and figured out my overall pace by doing a little time/distance math.  I was happy with my overall AP and saw that the last 4 miles were faster than the first 5, so it was a good morning run.

I decided to run home today instead of staying for Zumba because it was beautiful outside and it may be the last day without rain for a while.  It was over 70 degrees and sunny.  I wore my shorts and tank top and even though my legs were tired from my awesome morning run, I enjoyed the run until the last mile when I hit the gnat patch again.  It's just a half mile stretch, but it was soooooo icky.  It's the down side of not having freezing cold temps to kill the bugs.

Zumba tomorrow.

Lucky for me, I didn't have anything waking me up at 3 am, so I slept in as long as possible. It was marvelous.  I didn't get 9 miles in, but totally worth less miles for the sleep.

I went down a road I usually don't run in the dark by myself.  I didn't have any troubles, but it's a winding road with lots of turns and I think it's just a bad road to run in the dark.

Nice paces.  After mile 2, my legs were tired, but we kept on truckin' and I managed a nice progressive run. It was beautiful outside- 64 degrees with a cool breeze.  The weather is changing though; the wind is blowing from the north now instead of the south like it has been for the last 4 days.  It's supposed to rain for the next few days.  Glad I had a little taste of delicious weather before winter comes back.

Hadn't planned on running exactly as far as I did yesterday- but when I pushed stop on my garmin in front of my house, it was.  Coincidence, because I ran through the hood today since it was too foggy for me on the busy road in the dark.

Zumba after work.  I just love doing zumba.  We did it on the stage in the auditorium and I was having fun pretending like I was performing zumba moves for the audience.  

My sinuses are slowly filling up with sticky dried-out rubber cement-like snot.  More so on the left side than on the right, and so w, hen I woke up, the left side of my throat hurt too.    I decided to go out for a short run to get the snot reducing machine warmed up, and then run longer on the treadmill after work.

My plan didn't work out the way I'd hoped, and by 2 pm I was ready to sell my soul for some relief.  I took 3 decongestants and it didn't do a thing.  So by 4 pm, I had given up my dreams of an afternoon run.  I really hope I start feeling better soon.

I have a neti-pot and some distilled water with my name on it. 

Took the day off of running to try and fight this cold.  I was up at 3 am again today, but cooked chili, corn bread, and 2 cool-aide pies instead of going for a 9 mile run.  Yum!

I thought I heard a critter chewing my plant in the corner of my room when I woke up at 3 am.  I snuck over and listened as carefully as I could to find out where the mouse was in the plant, but it was too dark to find it.  I turned on a light in the room next door to help me catch the mouse in the act.  It took me at least 5 minutes to figure out it was just dead leaves on the back side of the plant blowing in the  air from the heat vent.  My imagination at 3 am is a little too crazy for my liking.

Slept in and tried to rest.  Less snot, but still tired.  I spent the first half of the day with MR cleaning out my closet and dresser.  As motivation, there were back to back episodes of hoarders on tv playing as we culled the herd of clothes.  6 full kitchen trash bags later, he was on his way to the good-will store and I set off for some kind of run.

It was sunny and in the low 50's.  Really perfect weather for a run.  I went 9 miles and it felt good.  It wasn't a fast run, just a slow, easy run.  I hope that next week I'll be ready to get a good long run in.

Highlight of the run:  A woman on a golf cart in the yard of a home that burned down, with a border collie that was running circles around and "herding" a large all white turkey.  Rather than asking myself "what's wrong with this picture," I had to ask "what's NOT wrong with this picture?"

Speaking of pictures, here's one of MR's tire rim from the garage/house vs the bike rack throw-down a few weeks ago.