3.84 miles

Shoes: Saucony ProGrid Omni Ultimate
Resting HR: n/a
Time: 45:00 min, plus 5 min warm-up, 8 min cool-down, then 10 min stretching
Pace: 11:44
Training HR: n/a
Miles: 3.84
Miles this week: 11.47 miles
Weather: Sunny, clear, low humidity (~24%), ~70 F.
X-Training: 40 pushups, 60 crunches, 1:20 plank pose.
Weight: 119.5

Good sleep, not enough of it! Sheesh. This is getting so old.

Still, not bad a run today. I wasn't sure I wanted to get up this morning, much less run, but the beauty of running consistently is that your body eventually gets used to the idea that you're going to make it go through the paces, so to speak, so it might as well cooperate. It's like when I was running and racing quite seriously several years ago, and after a year of heading out for long runs and track sessions nearly every day, eventually it got to the point where I'd wake up at 4:30, put on my clothes and shoes, drive over to the gym, and voila! I'd wake up on the treadmill. Literally. I'd be warming up, and then something in my mind would click, I'd look around and think, "Oh, I'm here."

I know, not exactly the safest thing in the world to drive half-asleep, but fortunately the gym was literally a quarter mile from the apartment I shared with my mom at the time. I could've walked it in 15 minutes, but hey, it was Dallas, it was 4:30 in the morning, and I'm a woman of 5'3" with a small frame.

Anyhoo, today was a good day. I thought I was going slower than I had been, but as you can see from the numbers, the pace was pretty much on track for this week. I did pick it up the last 7 minutes or so, as I didn't want to run short today. Wouldn't surprise me, considering that I was pretty sloppy with my diet and hydration yesterday. (Note to self: take "day off" more seriously.) And yes, the pick-up was a bit challenging, but not overly so. The last thing I want to do is injure myself by going out too fast, too far.

Breakfast: homemade whole-grain blueberry muffin, half-glass organic chocolate milk.

Wednesday:
Breakfast: 3 donut holes, small hot chocolate.
Lunch: PB&J on whole wheat toast. Small bowl of cereal (1 cup mix of almond flakes and granola) + 2% milk.
Snack: 1 bag of butter-flavored microwave popcorn, 1/2 chocolate donut.
Dinner: 2 cups rice, turkey pot pie.