Same Time, Same Channel

Just a short run.

5:44 am, 29° F, 66% humidity, winds calm.

I smelled donuts this time.

AP: 9:23. Splits: 9:41, 9:31, 9:04, 0.25 @ 8:49.

P.S. It's snowing now. I guess the upside of getting out early to run is that I got out before the snow came.

Another little bitty run.

5:50 am, 26° F, 71% humidity, winds calm.

This was just like Monday's run except a few minutes later, a few seconds slower, and a few degrees colder. It's mildly interesting that each of my mile splits today was just a few seconds slower than on Monday, but the last 0.25 was exactly the same as on Monday.

One of these days I'm going to get up early enough to go for a little bit longer run in the morning.

AP: 9:29. Splits: 9:50, 9:37, 9:09, 0.25 @ 8:49.

The same little bitty run once again, but a little faster this time.

5:45 am, 41° F, 34% humidity, wind 8 S.

I seem to have only a half hour to run lately, so I'm fitting in what I can during that time.

After the run, I took Thing 2 to seminary and he drove. Then I made lunches for today. Now I have to do some ironing. Then I have to get ready for work. Oh the joys of mornings.

AP: 9:12. Splits: 9:47, 9:23, 8:38, 0.25 @ 8:28.

A not-so-easy and not-so short (but definitely not long) run.

6:07 am, 50° F, 20% humidity, winds 5 S.

I pushed the pace just a little bit for this whole run. Maybe it's because I started faster than usual, but I was really sucking wind on that fifth mile. It didn't help that that mile is a somewhat more than gradual uphill the whole way.Or maybe I'm just out of shape.

It's Friday, so I ran with Lindsay, It's a good thing or I probably would have run that easy 3.25 that I've been doing all week again.

I'm taking my kids to see Harry Potter this afternoon.

AP: 9:19. Splits: 9:17, 9:09, 9:30, 9:12, 9:33, 0.8 @ 9:10.

An I-Sure-Can't-Do-What-I-Used-to-Do Run.

7:54 am, 26-30° F, 81% humidity, winds calm.

When I check wunderground.com when I was getting dressed to run, it said 25.5°F with Freezing Fog. I looked out the window and saw Freezing Fog and got scared and dressed warmly as a result. Too warmly, as it turned out. During the course of my run the fog lifted and the temperature rose to 30°, which is not particularly warm, but too warm to run in what I was wearing.

Not only was I overdressed, my run started out strangely. I was taking a route that I used to take all the time but haven't run in a while. About a mile into the run I came out of some reverie I was in and thought I had missed my turn, so I turned into a neighborhood thinking I could find a way to cut through to the street I should have turned on. This neighborhood was unfamiliar to me. I went left when I got in the neighborhood and that turned out to be a dead end, so I turned around and went the direction that was right from the entrance to the neighborhood. That was a dead end do. That neighborhood does not go anywhere. So I went back to the main road I had been on and went back the way I had come, thinking that I would go back to the turn, but then after a few minutes I realized that I had been wrong in the first place and I hadn't missed the turn at all. In fact, I had a good ways to go still to get to the turn. So I made another u-turn and then I was back on course.

This course has a lovely 1.5 mile uphill stretch in the middle of it and I seriously considered stopping and walking during this section, but I just tried to keep going. I had some downhill after that, but the last 1/4 of mile home is quite steep uphill. I struggled so much to finish this run that when I got home, I stopped in my driveway, and had dry heaves and then got down on my hands and knees and heaved some more.

So I really can't do what I used to do. The extra 20 lbs. I'm carrying is undoubtedly a problem. And I've clearly lost a lot of fitness. It doesn't help that this was my fourth consecutive day of running, which I haven't done in a long while, and I had a pretty tough run yesterday. Okay. Those are my excuses. I've got some hard work ahead of me if I'm going to get back to where I was before.

AP: 9:29. Splits: 9:40, 9:30, 9:35, 9:10, 9:26, 0.71 @ 9:34.