Running Update and Early Rising

Summer's over and there is a lot to catch up on. First of all, my running. I kept going into July and I made it around the reservoir! I was so proud of myself that I gave myself a few days off. I know, you're expecting that I quit after that. But I didn't! At least not right away. I went back to doing my mile loop pretty regularly then I developed a severe issue. I will call it "weather justification." Rain = no run today. That one's pretty valid, I think. However heat and/or humidity also = no run today. So that pretty much ruled out running in late july and early august.

I took a solid 3 week break. I also took up trapezing (this is something I will get to later) which I counted as exercise (unfortunately I only do it once every two weeks or so).

Things have been completely hectic with work, and applying to school and planning a wedding so recently I determined that the only acceptable time to run is in the morning. It's totally logical. I, however, tend to want nothing to do with logic at 6am. Logic goes out the window. My brain and body are 100% in love with sleep. So I haven't been particularly consistent.

But the first day back was the hardest. Who knew all that progress would disappear after just 3 weeks?! But it did. Remember when I posted about my lungs feeling like they were going to explode in my very first run? I was back to that again. Totally infuriating.

So what I am working on now, is getting out of bed earlier. Not necessarily to go running, but that's great when that happens. The way I see it, if I can first just train my body to get used to waking up a little earlier, then I can phase the running in. But if I am waking up with the express purpose of running then the sleep version of me has too much motivation not to get up. We'll see how this goes...