Wow..

It's already Thursday! This week is now awesome because I'm officially on vacation! I haven't been able to get away to see my family down in Florida for quite some time. The hubs and I decided to make visiting family a vacation this year. We leave tomorrow, but I have been off work since Wednesday AM.

This week has been a crap shoot for running though. I worked Sunday overnight, which took away my normal Monday run. I am just too tired after staying up all night to be able to run immediately when I get home. By the time I get up, it's too hot and I'm still tired and feeling crummy.

Tuesday, I got up and changed into my running clothes - only to discover that it was seriously pouring outside. The weather radar showed some nice red/orange cells over our area and I decided to go back to bed rather than running in a lightning storm. Don't get me wrong, I love running in sprinkling rain. However, a monsoon is a different story. I think I'm more likely to get hit by a car and I cannot stand it when I can barely keep my eyes open because it's raining too hard.

Wednesday was a repeat of Monday. When I woke up, I felt even more crummy from my one on, one off, one on schedule and it literally took me two hours to wake up. I had planned on running immediately after work (even had clothes in my car), but I was feeling queasy and weak and decided to go to bed.

Sounds like a lot of excuses, but that's how the week panned out. I find that life gets in the way of training. It's especially hard when I have a change in my schedule. I'm also at the mercy of the weather - I occasionally run on the dreadmill but I really hate it! Now that I'm doing distance runs and speed drills, the dreadmill is even less ideal.

However, this morning was a different story. My run was awesome! I have continued the Jeff Galloway program - and today was the day of speed drills. There's a good bit of walking involved on these days. You basically do 30 seconds of sprinting and a minute of walking, etc. It boils down to basically 9'40" miles - which is a pretty respectable pace for me and my short squatty legs (I told you - I'm slow!). The first and last miles are a bit longer because they have the longer walk periods in them.

Work Out:
Distance - 5 miles. I did about another half mile after the end of the scheduled program because I was still about half a mile from the house.
Time - 52:51 (including warm up/warm down)
Ran on the road, mostly flat.
The weather was PERFECT! 70 degrees, moderate humidity.

I felt really, really good on the run today. My legs were pretty well rested (obviously, I've been doing a whole lot of nothing this week). It felt really good to get out there.

I'm looking forward to vacation this week. I plan on running - even though it's at least 10 degrees warmer. I always eat a lot of food when I'm home (hello, seafood!), so running is a must.