run, run, run

Boise, ID

6:30 am

I didn't run on Monday because I was sick. I thought I would be better today. I wasn't. So I turned around and went back home.

Cancun, Mexico 3:30 pm

Pace: 8:28

The running part of this vacation isn't off to a great start. We arrived last night and were at the hotel before I realized that I forgot to pick up my running bag at the airport. So it was sometime this afternoon before Delta delivered my gear to the hotel.

The run was kind of rough. I could tell that I'm not completely over the chest cold I've been dealing with, so during the run I started really feeling it. Coughing and having trouble getting enough air. Not quite used to the weather either, even though it wasn't really hot, in the mid-upper 70s.

Cancun, Mexico 8:12 am

Pace: 8:37

This morning's run was worse than yesterday's. Probably because it was first thing in the morning and I hadn't had a chance to clear out my lungs yet. A lot of coughing and hacking up that brown sticky stuff. I went out 3.5 miles and stopped. I waited a while to get my air back and took off again. Running back was a little better, except that somewhere along the way I got this bright idea to run on the beach. Within 100 yards I knew that it was a bad idea. So I cut through the Hilton and back to the road, completely missing the only significant downhill section of the route.