making a comeback!

The DREEEAAADmill is a four letter word!!!!! Also a mental tourture chamber! With that said I thought I'd feel better but..... I went a whole 2 miles on the treadmill and feel like I ran a marathon. I'm blaming it on the nightshift again, it is a catch all for all badness in my life! But now I'll be more motivated to run when I get home in the morning regaurdless how tired I am it will have to be easier than that was! Way to get going on the high weekly mileage!

Made it out after work this morning and initially with the help of the slightest down hill slope had my first mile in around 8:55, was feeling good and had a lot of eneregy! The second was about 9:25 and a little up hill, the third, and I started to feel tired was not so great about 10:30. Not to impressive of a run but did get out before going to bed! I told my husband not to let me into bed under any circumstances before I had run because if I woke up and had to face the dreadmill again I think I would have died! So my weeks mileage isn't shaping up to well I will have to be a lot more motivated for the rest of the week!

A pretty slow and difficult run today. It is pretty humid out we have had rain the last two days and that and I think general fatigue seemed to really get me. About two miles in the sun came out from the clouds and it got real warm and even seemed more humid. I managed to bounce along at what seemed like a very slow pace. At around 5.25 miles I decided I had to have a drink and ran into the gas station and drank out of the bathroom sink and then made it home. Not my best run by far, but it's a done run! time 59:59

So now I'm off to clean the bathrooms!! It just gets better and better! Have a great day everyone!

Better run this morning than yesterday. Not quite as humid, so that helped. I wanted to do 6 again today, but I took a new route this morning and when I got to my house it was only five and I called it quits. Hope to get to bed before midnight today or tomorrow so I can get some kinda long run in this week. Hip seems to be doing a little better this week. I have found that heat is helping more than ice. It goes against everything that I've ever thought to be correct, but if it's helping I'm not complaining. Just hope it doesn't backfire and then I get a huge setback!

Got up and had my husband drop me off about half way on his way to work so I could run home and not have to do an out and back or wander around town. As we were driving it seemed so far away at the time that I gave in and had him only kick me out at the 6 mile mark and figured that I would add on 2 more for 8 in town if I had it in me. The first 6 miles were really good. I got me some new songs on my Ipod and just rolled along. Dropped off water on the way out so I didn't get thirsty. It was quite muggy and overcast but at least the sun wasn't beating down on me. I do feel like I am turning into one big mosquito bite though. I saw a few sprinklers to run through but didn't want to wash off any of my repelant (darn!) When I got to town things got a little difficult, I thinkk more mentally than anything. I ended up with only 7.7 but now that I am not as intimidated with the road he kicked me out on, next time I'll have him take me a little farther! Good run all in all.

On a little down note.... today is the last day of summer at our house.... I hate the thought of my kids going back to school on monday! So today we are totally taking it easy. Going to lunch and just soaking the last drops of freedom in. Later they have a big Highschool Musical 2 party planned with the neighborhood kids. Swimming, pizza and the movie. My goal today is to enjoy the day and not think about it coming to an end!

Slept in today and that sure felt good! When I woke up it was dark out and raining, so I didn't get out till around 10:00. It was still overcast and wet but the lightning had stopped. For a five mile run it was pretty hard, had some long tough climbs, ( For me ) but I just took it easy and went with it. I have loved the last couple of days running with these overcast skies. Even though the humidity is high, especially today, it just seemed so relaxed and peaceful out, occasional sprinkle now and then felt good too. Well looks like I made it home just in time, there goes more thunder!!! Now I hope it thunders, lightnings and pours all day long!!! Have a great weekend!!