Temperature and it's Power

As with the rest of society that doesn't necessarily run, there are people who like the hot summer days and those that do not.

I personally am not a hot summer day person. Precisely the reason I get up at 5:50 am or 6 am to go run. I refuse to run in anything above 85 degrees because it makes me sluggish and cranky. 

Cranky like when you're tired and hungry but too lazy to make food kind of cranky.

So this morning my run was glorious, absolutely amazing. 1. I could actually breathe the outside air without feeling suffocated. 2. It was 60 degrees and brisk. AHHHHHHHH!!! Prime running temps in my book.

Autumn, the time of the year runners like myself wait for so that we no longer have to endure 85% humidity at 73 degrees. 

Today I took an easy run as I had maxed myself out yesterday with 3 miles, lunch workout, followed by an intense body pump class after work. So I was quite exhausted by the time I got home after the gym.

So exhausted in fact that I could barely hold up my cellphone to text people back and respond. To the point I was laying on the couch as my boyfriend was leaving for work and he just looks at me and says "why don't you just go upstairs and go to bed?" It was 8:30 pm.......yeah...THAT tired.

Which I of course did go upstairs and lay in bed for about 30 minutes fighting sleep before I gave in and just crashed.

So this morning an easy run where I encountered "Badger" the excitable Rottweiler and his owners who were quite friendly.

Of course as I'm running along the sidewalk I had to duck under some lower hanging branches, because for whatever reason the city/apartment complex that has that property don't care about the look of the area or the insanity that is low hanging limbs in this neighborhood. It's beyond ridiculous at the overgrowth. So as I duck and say good morning to the owners and dog on the street I bump the top of my head on the branch and of course on the actual branch and not just the leaves. Ugh, keep running and pretend nothing happened right?

On my way back on my 1 mile loop I hear this coughing sound coming from the apartment complex that is near my house. They have these little patios that are surrounded by privacy fence. I hear the coughing which turns to hacking and then the sounds of puking. If that doesn't make you run faster I'm not sure what will...I just didn't want to stick around to find out more.

6.2 training miles tomorrow as I have a 10k on the 28th, my first ever. :) I'm excited and it's for the Missouri Veterans. So I am totally cool with where my money is going.

I can finally scratch that race itch as well, before my 5k mud run in October.