3.04 miles

Shoes: Saucony ProGrid Omni Ultimate
Resting HR: n/a
Time: 36:30 min, plus 5 min warm-up, 5 min cool-down, then 10 min stretching
Pace: 12:01
Training HR: n/a
Miles: 3.03
Miles this week: 9.25
Weather: Sunny, clear, ~70 F.

You know those days when you just. Do. Not. Want. To. Wake. Up...?

Okay, so almost every day this week was one of those days. I've had a terrible time getting enough sleep of late, but for once I refused to let that get in the way of my running. Every morning, I'd groan and moan and think, No, not today. But then I think about people who are tons busier than I am, and/or facing way more difficult circumstances than I could imagine (the article about runners in the military who do their training around the green zones in Iraq, featured in an issue of Runner's World last year, comes to mind), and I'm like, Yeah, you have no excuse. I think you can crank out a measly 3 miles today.

So I do.

This morning, as you can see from the stats above, was slower by about 10 seconds/mile than previous days this week. I thought a day off yesterday might help, and in some ways it may have because my body might have been worse, given the lack of sleep, had it not been for that respite. Still, it wasn't the easiest morning. I'm just glad I did it, though.

I will say that for some reason this is turning out to be a better running season than last summer was. Did I get up later? Was it hotter during the day than it is this summer? Who knows? I'm just glad that the mornings are relatively cool and dry, and with the summer at its peak, traffic is very, very low.