No breakfast in bed for me, instead my kids gave me something better, sleep and uninterrupted time on the treadmill. My middle kid woke me up at 6:30am. For most people this does not sound like sleeping in but, for me, it was an extra hour! She told me she had been up since 5am and couldn’t lay in bed any longer.
After breakfast the kids promised not to kill each other or burn down the house while I ran on the treadmill. I added in the incentive of turning off the family timer on the Xbox to hopefully give me enough time to get 4 miles done. I ended up with 3 miles of quiet and then the natives got restless. Usually I can barely get a mile done before they’re causing mayhem and destruction, so I’m considering this a win for me.
I am in week 3 of training for my half marathon in August. I managed to get one run outdoors this week. It was a big fail. I am still not comfortable wearing my compression tights when I run outside. Which means I get a mile into my run and then my right foot falls asleep/gets pins and needles. I do not have the coordination to run on uneven sidewalks like this so I ended up walking most of the 3 miles I did on Wednesday.
Friday I stuck to the treadmill and did the same 3 miles 11 minutes faster. So frustrating! Obviously I can run 3 miles without having to walk, now I just have to learn to do it off the treadmill.
Today was my “long run”. It is ridiculous to call 4 miles a long run but I am still building my weekly mileage. It has also been 8 months since I have run 4 miles so I was thrilled to see this on Smashrun.
My goal for this week is to do all my mileage outside.
