lessons from a 6 mile run

Well this weekend was a very low key type of weekend.  I made it to the gym and I got in a run.  Can't complain about that!  Saturday I headed to get a facial.  I haven't had one since last spring so I knew it was going to be expensive because I have no more product left.  So Merry Christmas to me!  She did yell at me (ok she didn't raise her voice, but I could tell she wanted to yell) for not wearing sunscreen when I run.  I have not found anything that doesn't run into my eyes.  The last thing I want is burning and stinging in my eyes as I run from product..I have enough issue with the sweat in my eyes.  Anyone else have this problem and thus stay away from sunscreen while running?  I will apply when I am just out and about but nothing is on my face when I run.  I do wear a visor or hat to help keep the sun off of my face (better than nothing, right?)  Afterwards, it was  perfect day to just lounge around and read and watch some TV.  After the crappy week, this was perfect.


On Sunday I wanted to head out the door for a 9/10 mile run..I waited for late morning because it was cold and windy.  I thought I could out wait the temp and wind.  Really it was the wind that I was hiding from.  The  upper 30's I could deal with.  Well they say that you learn something every time you run..today was one of those days. Last night I didn't really have dinner..I just picked on random snacks since I wasn't really hungry.  Well this would turn out to be a huge fail on Sunday's run .  I started out and immediately hated life.  The wind was just pushing against me.  Ugh..I hate wind!  Then as I kept going I just felt like the wind was stealing my breath away.  My chest was hating the cold too.  I felt like I was wheezing while I ran.  Turned out that I did manage to squeeze out 6 hated miles.  I guess the lack of food from the night before didn't help my energy levels while I was running against the wind.  Next time I will make sure that I have something good for a run the night before.

I did come home and have some yummy lunch..I made some chili since it is supposed to be a bit of a cold spell this week.  I don't think I have made chili at all this year, so sounded perfect to me this week. I came in to the yummy smell of chili in the crockpot.  I headed up and took a quick shower to help warm me up and settled down to some very yummy chili.  Perfect food after a windy run.

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I'm not a huge chili fan, but this just hit the spot today..

breathing vs 6 mile run

I'm getting over being sick.  I decided to push my 6 mile run from Saturday to Sunday.  My Friday night and Saturday consisted of laying on the couch and drinking Nyquil. 

Since I was high on Nquil and Musinex I thought it smart to push the 6 mile run until Sunday.

Sunday rolls around and I'm feeling so much better than Friday and Saturday.  Yeah!!  No sinus headache, not coughing nearly as much.  Perfect day for a run.  I decide that since I'm not 100% I would head to the gym to eliminate the outside factor of the run. 

I get to the gym and find my treadmill without any problem.  Sunday afternoon is not the high demand time at the gym.  I hop on and start to run.  I guess my lungs didn't feel like running 6 miles because a half mile was feeling really hard.  Turns out I forgot to ask my lungs if they were up for a run..turns out they were anti-running today.  I did 1 1/2 miles and then jumped on the bike.  I will try to run again on Monday after the teacher workday.  I guess breathing won over 6 miles today..we will see about tomorrow :)

7 mile run...Fail....3 mile run completed

So my plan was to run 7...failed!

It was a nice day for a run.  All I could think about was I didn't want to run and it is going to be really nice later in the week.  I mean so nice that I would be really really sad if I used up my 7 mile run on a nice day and didn't save it for a really nice day.  So I am saving it for a really nice day this week.  I then finished my 5k run.  Which I guess is fine.  But really I need to run 7 miles this week.  I am 3 weeks out from the Cherry Blossom 10 miler and 4 weeks from the Flying Pirate Half...not good times to be skimping on the training runs. 

As payment for not completing my long run I will give Riley a bath tonight.  Poor Riley he is probably going to be asking himself what he did to deserve a bath. :(