Last night some of us headed over to a co-workers house for happy hour. I wasn't planning on staying too long so I wasn't worried about food. I had some cheese and crackers and chips and salsa. Really the stuff that dinner is made of :) And of course I washed it down with some beer..didn't want the crackers to get stuck in my throat! :)
I knew when I woke up this morning that I was in trouble. I felt sluggish and just didn't want to head out the door to run. I knew I should have eaten dinner last night. Oh well, lesson learned again! I headed out after lunch. My legs felt heavy and tired. It really was the first run after a few weeks of no real running. (I'm not counting my 3 miles on Tuesday nights for run club) I wanted to try out my new fuel belt that I purchased for marathon running...I can't see me running 26.2 miles with a handheld. Well turns out that the fuel belt and bottles are not that bad. I was picturing a lot worse. My main problem is getting the freakin' bottles off of the belt. Guess you know what I will be practicing doing. Then I also have problems with putting the bottle back in place too. It turned out to be rather funny.
Tomorrow I will be volunteering at the GW Parkway 10 miler. Should be fun! It will be my first time working a water stop. Love supporting Runners!
5 comments:
Lesson learned!! ... again! ;)
Eat dinner before your long runs!! Great run though!! :)
Have fun volunteering!! :)
Eat a good meal before your long runs.
You need to eat proper meals two or three days before long runs.
Funny (not haha but ironic) - I learned/relearned the same lesson this past week. I'm sure in a few weeks I will "learn" it again - I wonder how many times it takes?
Glad you still got in a run!
Kim glad I am not the only one that has to relearn some lessons :)
The very fist time I bought a fuel belt I got that kind and the damn bottles kept falling off of it. Hope you have better luck with it than I did. I got the one that's actually just called "Fuel Belt".
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