This is a whiney pirate blog today, so if you're not in the mood to listen to me whine, walk the plank & abandon ship now.
It was hot and humid. 81 degrees at 5 am when I woke up. when we started running around 6:20, it was still around 80 degrees with 76% humidity. It would have been okay for shorter runs I guess, but we were going long today and by mile 8, my shoes and socks were soaked and it felt like I was running in a swamp inside my shoe. The sweat just pooled up inside my shoes..it was disgusting. Luckily I didn't get any blisters.
I carried 2 water bottles, and had 1 gu at mile 7. I think I could have used some gatorade somewhere in there too, but didn't have anywhere to carry something else. I had my phone inside a ziplock back in my back pocket, and my shorts got so saturated with sweat and heavy that with the additional weight of the phone, they started slipping down in the back as I was running. I looked like a gangster with my pants saggin' and baggin' on the back of my heiney. It got so bad I had to stop and cinch up the drawstring super-tight around my waist to prevent un-due distress to Wyatt since she was running behind me. :-)
We ended up taking a couple little breaks to stretch out a side ache, take a road-kill pix, talk to the owner of the sheep that chased us last spring, etc. The breaks were appreciated. I don't think I let myself recover enough yesterday in prep for a long run today. I could tell I was still sore from the shred video. Tomorrow, I'm just going to bag running and take a nice long bike ride.
Fabulous road kill today. My camera phone is on the fritz, but we saw an opossum that was pretty much just fur and a backbone, an upside-down recliner on the side of the road that smelled like it might possibly have a dead person pinned under it, baby copperhead snake, baby fawn (super, super, super tiny...must have been a newborn), and a kitten that was so smashed up he could have been mistaken for a small panda bear or little skunk. We hit pay-dirt on the roadkill. It has a lot to do with the location of our run. More country=more kill.
If Wyatt sends me copies, I'll put some of our treasure pix up.
We finished the run and had a tasty protien smoothy. Then I showered and took my kids to the beach for the afternoon. It was really nice, but I'm not sure I enjoy going in the water as much after watching shark week as I did before. Next year, we might have to put a ban on shark-week viewing. | 