Weather.com you are such a liar!

I walked three miles today.  While on my last mile and a half with Riley I felt a lovely breeze.  I thought to myself, "Great!  I will drop him off and then run and that breeze will feel so nice!"  And that is exactly what I did.  I dropped Riley off and headed out the door.  I figured since it doesn't look like I will get my 11 mile run in tomorrow since I am headed to PA, I can at least see what I can do tonight.  I knew I didn't fuel properly for a really long run.  I don't think baked breaded mushrooms constitutes a great fuel plan.  The BBQ Chicken salad from Panera for lunch wasn't going to offer much either, but I figured anything is better than nothing.

I started off and quickly noticed that there is no freakin' breeze!  It sort of disappeared!  I think mother nature was screwing with me.  She just wanted to lure me out to run and then melt me!  Once again I am calling foul on weather.com and their feels like temp for my  town.  I know it was hot but I still do not think that at 8 at night the temp is 87 feels like 101..you want to say it is 95 and feels like over 100 I can believe that..but not what weather.com was giving me.

I headed around and got in 4 rough miles.  I was sweating like crazy.  I was slow as a turtle.  I actually think I remember a turtle passing me at one point.  Someone posted that they change their shirt mid way through their long run, I think that may have to happen.  I am thinking that I can add some miles to the beginning of my long run and then pass my car and pick up a new shirt at mile 5 or 6..better than nothing I guess.  Sopping wet tanks do not wick away sweat.

Tomorrow I am going to try and get up early to run some..but we will see how that works out..I am not stressing about it.  If it happens great, if I rollover and get some more sleep..then I need sleep.

Then after my run or snooze hitting fest I am off to PA to wish Becky a final goodbye.  She is headed to Columbia next week.  The nice thing is our friends Rachel and Mike are coming down from Ohio to wish Becky a bon voyage too.  I haven't seen them in years so it will be a nice reunion!  Should be a fun weekend for sure.

Happy Fourth of July!

Happy Fourth of July everybody!  I decided last minute to run a 5K with some people from run club.  Yesterday Jen emailed me to see if I wanted to run the Freedom Run 5K.  I said sure.  During the Fourth there are so many 5K's around here that sometimes it gets a big confusing.  Turns out I ran this race last year.  As I was driving to the race I thought..hmm this area looks pretty familiar..I think I ran here before.  Yep I have..same race only different year.

When I got there I saw Jen and picked up  my bib.  As we were walking back to our cars to put our phones and stuff away we saw Susan from run club too.  So we all chatted and waited for the 5K to start.  Last year it was horrible because of the heat.  This year it was not nearly as hot.  Now don't get me wrong, it was still hot and humid, just not hot like the flames of hell are going to swallow you up at any moment hot..so I was happy.  It felt like it was going to rain too.  We have had rain everyday for the past two weeks.  Not the best summer.  I really wouldn't have minded the rain, it could have cooled me off.

As we took off, not even a mile down the road, and some mom was reprimanding her son for starting to walk so soon after starting.  I was a little irritated.   The kid was maybe 7 and I just feel like it should be fun to run.  She then said fine if we have to walk we need to get over to the right..so run until we are on the right..I know it can be frustrating to run with kids that have no concept of pacing..but really they are kids.  I'm sure that she knows what her son is capable of producing, but I just felt like she should just let her son run his kind of race, not the mom's race.  I also saw some crazy stroller mom dart over and almost take off this girls ankles..strollers scare me in races.  And she had the good old double jogger too..not sure she realized how close she was to knocking over a runner.  She did sort of stopped and straighten up the stroller before continuing with the race.

I thought I did pretty good for the first two miles..then the hilly part started and I just hated life.  I did better than I did last year in the heat.  The last hill defeated me and I ended up walking a bit.  I finished and found some run club friends.  We got our picture taken and watched some kids playing in the fountain.  I would have loved some Ben & Jerry's but the line was crazy.  Last year we had Popsicles this year Ben and Jerry's.      We also got this lovely beach towel as our swag.

 

After the race we headed to The Silver Diner for some French toast.  What a great way to start off the Fourth of July!

Humidity sucks

Last week was the start of marathon training (did I just admit that I am training for a marathon?! Yikes!)  It also was the beginning of a humid summer.  I now remember why I hate running in the summertime.  The heat and humidity make me feel like a brand new runner...it is so draining.  Combine the heat with the fact that it has been raining everyday for over a week..I am starting to feel like a drowned rat.  If I am not wet from the rain it is sweat..(Don't worry I will be complaining about the need for rain and the horrible sun and heat in a few weeks)

Last week it was so hot I ran through the woods at run club and then turned around and ran back because it was so hot and I wasn't doing the last half on the hot pavement.  The nice thing was when I was coming back I saw a deer just hanging out.  Who thinks of a deer a few miles from DC?  It was obviously a city deer because as I told a family very quietly about the deer (thinking that some city folk would love to see a deer)  the kids basically yelled, yep that's a deer.  The deer just looked up at them and was like "Hey".  She didn't flinch at all.  Oh city deer.

This weeks run club was much better.  Some drizzle and a little breeze made it pretty enjoyable..I was able to pretend that the sweat rolling down my back was rain.

What do you all do to combat the heat and humidity of summer?

Let Freedom Run

Next race will be on the 4th of July.  I will be running the Let Freedom Run 5K .  The great thing about this race is that it starts at 9am.  So hopefully my Aerosmith concert the night before will not create issues for my run (aka lack of sleep).  The bad thing about the race is that it starts at 9am.  Yeah 9am for a race in July screams HOT...FIRE...DIE!!!  But that is ok, it is only 3.1 miles..so hopefully I will survive :) 

Speaking of the firey depths of Hell..I may try running early tomorrow morning.  Not sure if this is going to work out because we are currently in a heat advisory and it is 91 degrees outside at 8:30 pm..so not sure how "cool" it will be tomorrow morning...but I plan on trying.  As you can see I am trying to dodge the treadmill and the gym.  Not sure how it will work out, but hopefully I will not see the inside of the gym over the weekend :)

Hope everyone stays cool!