Normally this would be a long run today, but as I mentioned on Tuesday, we're watching another couple's three children today while the wife does a triathalon (they're watching ours when we run the half-marathon). We have two families that we regularly trade long workouts with, which is really nice.
So today, since I was up at 4:45 am to go over there while their kids were sleeping, we opted to swap the long weekend run with the shorter midweek run. I was hoping I'd still have time to squeeze in an extra few miles, but I don't think it will happen, so...I'll have to be content with my three.
Today I ran a trail that I haven't run in about four years (to a nearby lake)--and while I was running it I remembered why! Part of it is just a deer trail, barely room to put one foot in front of the other, and I'm pretty sure it was completely lined with poison ivy. And then when it opened up, I was running over mud flats and sinking in. Awesome. I'll stick to my regular trails from now on, since that definitely slowed me down.
STATS: 3 miles, 8:33/mile, hilly, muddy
As a sidenote, I spent an hour yesterday afternoon (while the kids were napping, when I should have been doing something productive) reading running blogs. Then I moped around the rest of the day feeling like a loser because I'm not training for a marathon. I really, really want to run a marathon. I just keep having to remind myself that I'm barely finding time to run 20 or 25 miles a week; I don't know how I would double that. Sigh.
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