TexasLindsey

6.6 miles at 5:30am. Weather=85 degrees, 48% humidity, 63 dew point, 8 mph wind, dark. Average pace=9:30/m.

Ashley and Tim have been out of town so I'm on my own and I'm obviously not doing too well. I've had a hard time waking up at the usual 4:15am this week. I didn't run at all Sunday and yesterday and I slept until 5 this morning so I only had time for 6.6 miles. I figured it was good for me to catch up on sleep. However, if I miss running in the morning these 111 degree days we've been having mean I can't run any other time of the day. Sigh... I have felt blah, blah this week.  This heat is depressing.  I'm stuck inside with my children all day because it is oppressively hot outside.  I think I want to move to California.  Trying to get my motivation back.

My feet have been bothering me lately. They hurt pretty bad and feel numb on every run. I bought new shoes and it hasn't helped. The rest of my body is feeling great though so I'm at least grateful for that. Nonetheless, this feet issue has me frustrated.

7.6 miles at 5:20 am. Weather=83 degrees, 46% humidity, 61 dew point, 10 mph wind, dark. Average pace=9:13/m

(9:55, 9:59, 9:44, 9:22, 9:03, 8:27, 8:50, 8:41)

Was having issues with my shoes today. Yesterday my feet hurt and went numb. So today I put an extra pad in each shoe. On the positive, my feet didn't hurt when I hit the ground anymore. However, it made the shoes not fit right... the left shoe felt kept coming off the heel (kinda like a flip flop) with every step. The right toes went completely numb. Ugh. So basically like the left shoe wasn't tight enough (no matter how I tied the laces) and the right shoe was too tight (no matter how I tied the laces). I've never had these problems before. It's always something, isn't it? I mean I finally get my quad/groin injury feeling better and now I'm having strange shoe problems.

Maybe I need to go up a size in shoes. My feet measure 7.5 and I've been buying 8.5 shoes... but maybe I need 9. Maybe these orthotics no longer fit my feet correctly. Maybe one foot is bigger than the other and I need a 9 on one foot and 8.5 on hte other. This is weird.

6.5 miles at 5:30 am.  Weather=84 degrees, 53% humidity, 65 dew point, 4 mph wind, dark. 

mile 1- 10:19

mile 2- 9:28

mile 3- 9:12

mile 4- 8:56

mile 5- 8:46

mile 6- 8:39

mile 7- 7:49

Just decided to run nice and easy today and not even look at pace.  I actually ran by how I felt and I guess as I got warmed up I got faster and faster.  I felt like speeding up at the end so I just went for it.  Great run!  When I got home, I saw it was a progressive run.  Cool.

My feet feel a little better today.  I wonder if it's possible that the bottoms of my feet got bruised and that was the issue.  Hmmm.  These wierdo running pains.  Today I felt like I had shin splints coming on which I think might have been caused by the flip flop shoe problem yesterday.  Some of these pains seem bad on a run and then the next day they are gone.  I don't think I'll ever get used to it.

6.5 miles at 5 am.  Weather=82 degrees, 68% humidity, 69 dew point, 6 mph wind, dark.

mile 1- 10:11

mile 2- 8:56

mile 3- 8:33

mile 4- 8:36

mile 5- 8:39

mile 6- 9:00

final .5 pace - 9:06

Met up with Ashley and Tim.  They went out of town this week to San Franisco so today was the only day we could run together.  Next week Ashley has a business trip to Georgia so I'm on my own next week too.  They said San Fran weather was awesome... Ash was even cold at times!  I can't imagine.  We're on like 30 days in a row of triple digit heat here.  This bank by my house has a sign that flashes the temperature... yesterday it was 113 degrees!  

Tomorrow we're running 12 with the group around Trinity River. 

14.2 miles at 6:30 am. Weather= I don't know exactly but it was about 83 degrees and over 50% humidity and sunny... really HOT!

mile 1- 8:21

mile 2- 8:09

mile 3- 8:03

mile 4- 8:02

mile 5- 8:02

mile 6- 8:02

mile 7- 8:20

mile 8- 8:44

mile 9- 8:40

mile 10- 8:15

mile 11- 7:21

final .2 pace - 7:05

~15 minute Water Break ~

mile 12- 9:21

mile 13- 9:27

mile 14- 8:31

Ran with the group this morning. We did 11.2 miles. Then after standing around talking Ashley, Tim and I decided to go out for another 3.

It was a good day. I ran with the lead group until the turn around at 6 miles. I discovered there was no water at the turn around and felt defeated. Plus, they were speeding up to run negative splits. They get down to the 7:00 miles by the end. I'm not there yet, especially without cold water. So I slowed down and ran with a slower group behind us.

At the beginning of mile 8 I had a terrible fall while -get this- I was walking! Ha! There was water at this point in the run where we were supposed to go down a short steep ramp that took you from the river bank to a residential street below. We had decided to get our water cups and walk down the short ramp and start running again when we reached the bottom. K... so I'm walking and my foot gets off the sidewalk and there was a drop off in the grass. I tripped and fell downhill. During the fall I was trying to protect my legs from injury so I hit with my hands, left hip and stomach. I got really scrapped and bloody on my hip. This is number two fall for the season. Last year I had a spectacular fall as well. I seem to fall more than most.

So after the fall, we went uphill for all of mile 8 and half of mile 9... so those miles were 8:40's but they really were a difficult section of the run. Then it evened out and I speeded up. Another girl tried to stay up with me for a portion... actually, she tried to pass me with about 3/4 mile to go. I love it when that happens. Just the motivation I need. I kicked it into high gear and took it to the house. All the people in the lead group were laughing at my bloody self when I ran in to the finish. "What the hell happened to you?!! Why are you bleeding?"