Running in the Rockies

This was a true Monday. There was nothing that went wrong, but I felt *blah* all day and just wanted to sleep or take a holiday from being a Mom. That defines a true "Monday" to me - inherently a bummer due only to its existence. ;o)

My legs felt great on today's run and my pace is finally back to where it was before Thanksgiving, without pushing it. Mentally, I kept trying to look for a way to shorten my run (see above paragraph), but my legs just kept going. lol

Ave pace: 11:29

Wow, I almost forgot to post today's run .. and it was a hard one! I had to push myself out the door, and I had to push myself to begin running, and I had to push myself to keep going. I don't know why today was so hard, but it felt -mentally- like the hardest run so far. I've had others where my legs hurt more, or my lungs were heaving, but today ... something else was just unwilling to run. I hope consistency will pay off and tomorrow's run won't be quite so bad.

On a side note - I had a BUG fly into my EYE while I was running today! Not my eyelid...my eye! Weird, huh? Poor thing met its death soon after. Pay attention while you're flying, eh?

Ave pace: 11:36

I think this whole week is turning out to be a tough one for running. I feel beat up. Maybe I need to work harder on getting to bed earlier. I'm still waking up once to nurse, and then the kids are all up around 6:00 or 6:30. Going to bed at 11:00 is not cutting it. Windy today, but still warm. It was 49 degrees; yesterday was an amazing 68 degrees ... in December! ... in Colorado Springs!! I'm gonna see if I can go sneak in a nap while the babies are asleep.

No running today. My foot was hurting a little this morning, and as after shopping and a RS Christmas party, it is now hurting so much that I'm limping horribly. It's the same foot that I hurt when I fell down the stairs last week; but I've been able to run on it 3-4 times since then -- so why is it starting to hurt now? I think it's sprained, so I wrapped it and I'm going to take some ibuprofen when I go to bed tonight. We'll see how it's doing tomorrow.