the last few runs...

happy friday!  I've never been so happy to see this day.   I worked a lot over the past few days and I was more than grateful when I worked a half-ish day today.   Once I came home, I ate lunch then promptly took a nap.  It was glorious.

yes, I agree.

As I mentioned in my last post, I ended up running at the 5am hour two days in a row this week.  The first day?  I was a HUGE fan.  I had energy all day. It was peaceful.  I really, truly loved it.   I thought, "I can do this ALLLLL the time."  The second day?  Not so much.  Despite going to bed early the night before, I tossed and turned and got only an okay amount of sleep.  I woke up feeling tired, but put on all my stuff and headed out, hoping for a 5 miler, at least.  It was icy.   Every surface I tried was slick.  My legs felt tired the entire run and every time I tried to speed up, I would slip and slide.  I also almost hit my head on three different tree branches because I was so pre-occupied with not falling.  Needless to say, I spent that entire run cursing.   In the end, I was glad I got it done, even if it was an awful run.  It was better to get it over with and get on with my day.   

Am I ruling out morning runs completely?  Nope, not in the least.  I do like them...every so often.  I don't think I'll do it every day.  I like sleep too much.   However, it does make it nice to have it done so that I can be as lazy as I want when I get off work.

I took a rest day yesterday and did a 5 miler on the mill today in 43:15.   This felt like a huge accomplishment for two reasons.  1. I took a few walk breaks and still did sub-9s and 2. this was the first time in forever that I've done a sub-9 five miler on the mill.   It felt like a huge win!  Ryan accompanied me to the gym and knocked out 4.25 miles.   We attempted to do weights, but I was spent after sweating buckets on the mill (sorry, gross, but true) and we decided to call it a day.

I have to work all day tomorrow, so I may run a few easy miles in the morning so that my legs are fresh for my 14 miler on Sunday.

In other news, I've been sucked into a book.  This one, to be exact:

This is so so good.  I always believed that I hated Stephen King because I associated him with his 'horror' novels.  This one is suspenseful so far, but not scary.  I'm a little over halfway and I just want to keep reading....its 800+ pages though, so it takes a little bit of time.  Ryan bought it on his ipad and is reading it too.  Could we be bigger dorks??

Last, I'm a race ambassador for a new race in my area: the canton liberty run!  It's June 16 and it's going to be all sorts of fun.  There's a 1 mile, 5k, 10k, or 5k+10k race to choose from.  The best part? You get a statue of liberty costume to run in!  They are pretty awesome because they said if I can get a decent amount of people to register, I can give away some fun swag!   If you decide to do it, please pick that you heard from watchmegorun on the drop down menu when asked how you heard about the race.   Seriously, even you out of towners need to consider this one.   Who doesn't like to dress up for races?!  

More info can be found here: Liberty Run.  Even better, if you register through their facebook page, you can get 5% off your registration:  fb registration.

Alright friends, hope you have a great friday/saturday...I'll see ya after my 14 miler on sunday ;)

Questions:

-How have your runs been going recently?  Have you had to deal with bad conditions?

-Has anyone else read this book?  Thoughts?

-Big plans today or tomorrow?

-Who's racing with me?  :)  

Megan