Hope To Run Again Before End Of The Year

Finally a pretty morning.  To be fair I knew I would not get a run in today.  At least not in the morning.  We went to the beach right away to enjoy it.  Very bad storms hit in the afternoon and evening.  

Drove home today.  No storms in sight the day we leave for home...figures !

Ran 10.  Felt good.   Midnight Shift tonight, and no sleepsince waking up in the morning.  Going to be about 25 hours of awake time before sleeping again. Ugh !

Felt bad after waking up this afternoon.  Body still in shock over the change of sleep schedule.  Did not do a run when I awoke.  When it was evening I felt guilty about not running earlier.  So set out for another 10.  Kept feeling the need to hurry so I could have a few minutes of recovery before getting ready for work.  Got home with 15 minutes to spare.  Legs really tightened up from sitting in the car so long so soon after a run.  Felt good running at the faster pace.  Only began to feel some fatigue in the last 1.5 miles.

Woke up and went to the gym.  6 on the treadmill at 8:00 pace. (48:00)

4 in the evening before work on the road.  Kept this slow and easy.  Felt good.

Woke up this afternoon to another hot day.  My thermometer in the Sun showed 102f, and it the one in the shade showed 97.7f.  So it was off to the gym again for another run on the treadmill.   6 miles at 8:00 pace (48:00).  So far the best thing about my treadmill runs this week has been  being able to watch Star Trek Voyager while running.

A thunderstorm rolled through about 30 minutes before my evening run.  The temps cooled down to 76f, but the humidity went up to 1.2 billion percent..give or take a few mil.  I wore my headlamp because its been pretty dark in a few places this week.  When I turned it on it really highlighted the steam rising from the road.  And it got downright spooky watching the "fog" roll past my face.  I turned the light off.

Today was a GOOSE EGG.

No excuses..but here are the reasons:

Monday / Tuesday - awake for 25 hours, then slept only 6.5

Wednesday - 6.5 hours sleep

Thursday - 6 hours sleep

Friday - 5 hours of sleep

I was in no mood to run.  Or do anything else.  Mentally drained.  But my legs have felt good all week.  They were more ready to run than the rest of me .

Woo Hoo !

Got 7 hours of sleep today.  I certainly felt better after waking up than I had any other day this week.  95f out, so went to the gym for 6 on the treadmill at 8:00 pace (48:00).

Evening.  Had to get moving.  Not much time to fit the run in.  I do not think I have averaged under 7:00 pace for a run since my race in March.  I could feel it, but overall I was pleased with it.  85f in the dark on this run.