Last night as I was brushing my teeth before bed, I realized that I didn't have to be out the house by 6 am. I was off by an hour! I could leave at 7! Hooray! That was much more feasible than 6!
Still, I didn't set my alarm and told myself if I woke up, I woke up. I've been sleeping really crappy lately and figured if my body needed sleep than so be it. Well, I woke up at 5:30 am on my own. I hunkered down under the covers willing myself to fall back asleep. No go. I dragged my ass out of be at 6:30 to look out the window to see how hard it was raining. What?! No rain?! I checked the weather on my phone to see how cold it was outside. 44. That's not so bad.
Long pants, long sleeve shirt, jacket, gloves, and a headband to keep me warm. Since my jacket had pockets I threw my gels in one and my iPod in the other. Nice, since my armband was super stinky. Unfortunately when I tried turning on my Garmin, it said "Low Battery" and then died.
I checked the time on the microwave in the kitchen before I left. 6:56. I didn't realize until about a mile into my run that I could have taken my phone with me and tracked my time that way. Nor did I realize until about the last mile of my run that my iPod THAT WAS ALREADY ON MY PERSON had a clock on it. Sometimes my stupidity surprises even me.
Anyway, it was a great run. It was rather liberating running without my Garmin. The first three miles felt great. I was a bit bummed that I had to slow to take a gel, but I knew I would need it.
I wanted to know my time so instead of walking around my cul-de-sac a few times to cool down, I immediately ran inside to the kitchen to check the time. 8:52. Woo-hoo! After subtracting a minute for the time it took me to get outside, lock the door, walk down the driveway, walk back up and unlock the door, I figured the total run took 1:55. Woo-hoo!
My best time for this route was 1:52:57 (11:03/mile) back in August. And that was a tad bit shorter, too, (10.21 miles) since I skip one of the trails now and run the sidewalks for safety reasons (10.3 miles). Using this site to calculate today's pace gave me 11:10/mile. Yay!
My mind felt so much better after today's run.
Haha. And that appointment that was for 10? Well, the guy called me and had to reschedule for next week. And it's been raining since after my run.
We went to the animal shelter later. There was an adorable Australian Cattle Dog there named Eliza that was soooo sweet. However, I read on the internet and the lady at the shelter, too, told me that this breed might nip my kids on their heels to herd them. Funny to me, but might be a tad scary for the kiddos. So we're still dogless.
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