G28K Week 2 comes to a close

This week was four intervals of 8 minutes run + 1 minute walk. Worked out well, but those one minute walks are SHORT!! :)
This morning was the chilliest yet. 45F (7.2C). I don't have but the slightest squeak in my lungs, but breathing sure seemed harder than when it was warmer. I'm not sure how regularly I will be able to run this winter. My light rain jacket turned out to be perfect over a cotton T-shirt today.

MapMyRun says I ran 3.03 miles in the 32 minutes running + 3 minutes walking. A little disappointing. Although, it's satisfying that that is disappointing! (Boy, this running thing is complicated!)

I think I might enter a 5k in the town where I work for later this month. It's 50 minutes away and $25 (!!!) to enter, $35 on the day of. Although, that includes a dry-wick T-shirt rather than a cotton one. It seems their focus is more on the 10k race they also have. The 5k should be half price... or less, since they are only giving prizes for the 10k. Maybe I'll be up to the point where I could run the 10k next year. Although with walking breaks, I'm sure I could finish a 10k, I'm not going to attempt it. I'm leaving on a business trip the next day.

I was going to run last night, but I went to bed instead. I had gotten 4.5 hours of sleep the night before. So, last night, I got 7 hours and that isn't counting the half hour of pressing snooze! So, I got underway at 5:20am. I really need to run at night, though. I don't mind getting up early, but I'm still at the point where I have to talk myself into getting up early to run. I know I'll feel good and I need to keep to schedule, but it's still hard. I can pop out of bed for other things, but somehow I guess deep down, my mind doesn't put enough priority on working out.

By the way, I'm liking the extra cushion in my Saucony shoes. Now I don't feel the need to run in the street to be on asphalt. They do a better job absorbing the shock of running on concrete than my previous shoes. I tried to see if I could get another back up pair from the discount store for the $37 I spent on these, but they were out of my size, of course. I found them at a local shoe store for $75, which is a fair price.

Missed a workout

I was due to run on Wednesday, but life interfered. I've been working on a project at work and getting very little sleep because of it. Running still holds a second place to sleeping in the list things I can do with uncommitted time, which in itself is pretty small. That's not to say I've never sacrificed an hour of sleep in order to run, but once I get to the 5 hour time frame, skipping sleep in order to run would be cutting into the bone.

I plan to run tonight or tomorrow morning.

I'll be visiting my parents this weekend. I'm already thinking ahead to where I will be running Sunday or Monday. The funny thing is, the housing area they are in is too small for me now. I'd have to circle around it multiple times. (I swear it's not the steep hills that are scaring me!) So, I need to find a path or something to run on. If I stay nearby but jog into other housing areas, I'd get into older areas that have sidewalks in poor condition and I'd probably have to cross some busy roads. I feel a bit self conscious when I'm jogging in place at a stop light and it takes my head out of my running dreamworld.