3.08 miles

Shoes: Saucony ProGrid Guide
Resting HR: n/a
Time: 35 min, plus 5 min warm-up, 5 min cool-down, then 10 min stretching
Pace: 11:51
Training HR: n/a
Miles: 3.08
Miles this week: 3.08
Weather: Mostly cloudy, about ~72 F.

Haven't been registering my runs here, but I hope to be a little more, uhm, productive! ;-)

Obviously, I changed my shoes. Went to Dallas in early May and finally, finally bought some new shoes after running through my old New Balances for literally years. I should, of course, know better, as I've lost two toenails (the same one, too: left 2nd toe!) and once got really bad shinsplints from wearing bad shoes. In any case, I checked out the Run On! store on Mockingbird Lane in Dallas and got kitted out with not just a pair of new shoes but a couple of technical tops and socks as well. Might as well treat myself while I'm there, plus the shoe store salesperson was so sweet. Spent some time in the Philippines when she was young (I think she said that her father was in the military and stationed there in the early '70s), so we chatted a bit about the old country.

I didn't sleep well last night. Maybe got about five hours of sleep, if not less. Went to bed rather late, about 11:30 or so, and then woke up with B. around 4 in the morning. He couldn't sleep at all, so he went downstairs to watch some TV and I kept him company. I did end up drifting off again, but when I finally rolled out of bed at 6:10, I was feeling awful. Wasn't sure I'd run, but sometime between stumbling into the closet and pulling on some shorts, I thought, Oh what the hell. If you don't feel good, you could always stop.

So after dropping B. off at the hospital, I drove home, rubbed on tons of sunblock, and was on my way. And you know what? I felt fantastic. Not quite as good as Saturday's run, but still not bad considering that I had a miserable night's sleep. And now I can go on with my day without feeling bad about not running.

Guilt can be such a liberating experience.