Last night's when I was supposed to run, but after a few nights of not sleeping well, and one all-nighter to finish grading my students' notebooks, I gave myself a break and had a glass of wine instead, promising to run in the morning.
Of course, in the morning, it was Saturday! Not to mention My Beloved's first weekend of summer vacation, and I slept in. I was getting my excuses lined up to get another day off when my friend Julie in New York posted about her day's run on facebook. Aw heck, how can I have excuses, here in the dry California heat, when there she is going twice as hard in the New York humidity running up and down hills...so off I went.
I came around one corner and the homeowner was working in his garden with his back to me. He didn't see his little black lab puppy run out into the street to visit me...cute little guy wagging his whole self, jumping all over my black tights with his muddy paws...I wanted to stay and play, but had to keep going, so I pet him a bit and and he ran back to his yard.
Today was two ten-minute runs with a walk in between. It felt like a really long time, and I almost gave up about a million times. Paused the podcast for about two minutes for a potty stop at the park, splashed my face and the top of my head with cool water and got a drink, felt some better after that. Since I started doing this, I hadn't had any nausea like I used to years ago running, but today I felt it just a little before I got to the final five-minute walk. Maybe it was the heat.
This was the first run I've done in the daytime, in the heat, but luckily there was a steady breeze. A warm one, but a breeze nonetheless. It was weird to have so many people around. Usually I run at twilight, and it's pretty solitary.
I think the lesson here is that I should have run last night, or at least much earlier this morning. Running when it's cool is a LOT nicer.
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