An I-Sure-Can't-Do-What-I-Used-to-Do Run. 7:54 am, 26-30° F, 81% humidity, winds calm. When I check wunderground.com when I was getting dressed to run, it said 25.5°F with Freezing Fog. I looked out the window and saw Freezing Fog and got scared and dressed warmly as a result. Too warmly, as it turned out. During the course of my run the fog lifted and the temperature rose to 30°, which is not particularly warm, but too warm to run in what I was wearing. Not only was I overdressed, my run started out strangely. I was taking a route that I used to take all the time but haven't run in a while. About a mile into the run I came out of some reverie I was in and thought I had missed my turn, so I turned into a neighborhood thinking I could find a way to cut through to the street I should have turned on. This neighborhood was unfamiliar to me. I went left when I got in the neighborhood and that turned out to be a dead end, so I turned around and went the direction that was right from the entrance to the neighborhood. That was a dead end do. That neighborhood does not go anywhere. So I went back to the main road I had been on and went back the way I had come, thinking that I would go back to the turn, but then after a few minutes I realized that I had been wrong in the first place and I hadn't missed the turn at all. In fact, I had a good ways to go still to get to the turn. So I made another u-turn and then I was back on course. This course has a lovely 1.5 mile uphill stretch in the middle of it and I seriously considered stopping and walking during this section, but I just tried to keep going. I had some downhill after that, but the last 1/4 of mile home is quite steep uphill. I struggled so much to finish this run that when I got home, I stopped in my driveway, and had dry heaves and then got down on my hands and knees and heaved some more. So I really can't do what I used to do. The extra 20 lbs. I'm carrying is undoubtedly a problem. And I've clearly lost a lot of fitness. It doesn't help that this was my fourth consecutive day of running, which I haven't done in a long while, and I had a pretty tough run yesterday. Okay. Those are my excuses. I've got some hard work ahead of me if I'm going to get back to where I was before. AP: 9:29. Splits: 9:40, 9:30, 9:35, 9:10, 9:26, 0.71 @ 9:34.
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