3.14 miles

Shoes: Saucony ProGrid Omni Ultimate
Resting HR: n/a
Time: 35 min, plus 5 min warm-up, 5 min cool-down, then 10 min stretching
Pace: 11:51 (Wow. Exact same pace as yesterday.)
Training HR: n/a
Miles: 3.14
Miles this week: 6.22
Weather: Sunny, clear, ~70 F.

Not quite as good today as yesterday. I'm not sure why, although the lack of adequate sleep may have something to do with it. I really should get at least 8. I think 9 would be ideal, but that's unrealistic given all the things I need to do. (And people think that work-at-home folks do nothing but lounge around in their jammies all day! I work more now than I ever did in a 9-5 or even 8-5 job.)

I may have to start eating something, even just half a granola bar, at least a half-hour before the run. Stomach felt kinda empty this morning, more so than usual. Perhaps my body is sensing that I'm getting really serious about my training again and is gearing itself up for more work? Or was it the sunny weather? Yesterday was very cloudy and hazy, so I didn't have to contend with too much radiant sunshine until towards the end of the run.

I'm still deciding on whether or not to go for the Moab Other Half in October. It'll be shortly after we come back from Singapore, which itself doesn't bother me, but B. and I are planning to climb Mt. Kinabalu in Borneo during our last week there. I've done it before -- 1995 -- and remember all too well how much in pain my legs were for up to a week afterwards. Of course, I was also poorly trained at the time, so it may be different this year. Still, although the Other Half won't be until mid-October -- a full 3 weeks after we come back down from Kinabalu -- I worry that my legs won't be rested enough.

I guess we'll have to wait and see. I'm looking at the Dallas White Rock Half in mid-December, too. Decisions, decisions.