#trainingrun – 2.08 miles in 18:33 outside – dipped below freezing – quick, cold and dark run – Sept 21, 2013 (Saturday)

219 this morning when I woke up – didn’t bother to weigh myself after the short training run

I was surprised that my weight wasn’t higher this morning – we ended up having a late supper after the kids’ swimming lessons last night and we ate out just out of convenience – but looks like no damage done and probably means I have a bit more fuel in the system going into the half marathon race tomorrow.

Had a bit of a rough night last night though – got home from swimming lessons for the kids and supper – got the kids to bed and I fell asleep on the couch by 9pm!  Got up and got to bed at 10 and was right back out.  Woke up at 4:30 and couldn’t fall back to sleep so got up had a small breakfast and did some stuff online before heading out around 6 am for the quick run.  Did the run and had a shower and then had a massive headache out of nowhere (which was strange because felt fine otherwise).  Took a tylenol and lay down on the couch to let it kick in….and woke up again a couple hours later.  So definitely got quite a bit of sleep last night but hopefully the headache this morning and the crash out last night aren’t a warning sign that I was training too hard or that I am going to have a rough race tomorrow morning.  Oh well – won’t know until tomorrow at this point.

Run this morning was quick, cold and dark.  There is probably a joke in there but I think I will leave it be.  The run definitely felt solid though and the time for the distance was not too bad as didn’t bring my Garmin (tracked distance and time on my Samsung Galaxy S4 using My Tracks app) so I wasn’t watching my speed – definitely was in a good place after I got my wind a couple minutes in – no aches or pains or anything like that.  Definitely not ready to be running in the colder weather though – I trained for Goofy last year in much colder weather but wasn’t happy about the cold this morning though – going to have to suck it up and deal with it though – if you are going to live in Winnipeg you are not allowed to complain about the cold!  (not that most people don’t break that rule)