I better keep the ball rolling with these blog posts if I don’t want to pull another disappearing act.
So, I run in the mornings now. My legs, lungs, and brain all hate it, but it works better logistically, so I’ve been trying to become a “morning person”. Fake it, till you make it…that’s my motto.
This looks all nice now, but that sun is BRIGHT. And, when I’m half asleep, I don’t remember sunglasses. I’m lucky that I remember sneakers.
For the 3 or 4 weeks I’ve been doing this, I’ve been giving myself considerable slack. My only requirement for morning runs is that I go. It doesn’t matter how far I run or how fast, just that I do it. I’m hoping to step up my game eventually, but realistically that probably won’t happen until mid/late July.
Last night I slept pretty poorly. Jeff had to stay up late for work, and I woke up slightly when he came to bed at 1:40AM. Then, by a serious of unfortunate events, I did not really fall back asleep until sometime after 3:52. Shortly after coming to bed, Jeff got up again to turn off our white noise machine. In my half asleep state I saw he was out of bed, but figured he’d gone to the bathroom. When I rolled over and saw a man standing by the side of the bed (Jeff turning off the white noise machine), it scared me half to death! Unfortunately before I was able to completely calm down from this shock, someones car alarm started going off. And it didn’t stop. So, I had to get up and turn the noise machine back on. All this activity, and I was AWAKE.
So when my alarm went off at 5:10, I didn’t want to get up and run. But I did manage to get up. I almost laid down on the couch in my full running gear and just not go, but I decided against that, too. Small victories. I ended up running probably a total of 1.5 miles, and spending the rest of the time just sitting looking out at the ocean. Not my best effort, but at least I didn’t go back to sleep.
Probably better than sleeping? I’m not sure.
Now, I’m going to go sit in traffic for at least an hour and a half…I mean, go to work. Happy hump day!
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Good for you! I’m also trying to be a morning runner for the summer. Temperature-wise and logistics-wise it’s the best time, but actually prying myself out of bed is problematic.
I find that I will NOT go if I don’t lay out my clothes ahead of time. Don’t know why, but it is a necessity. 🙂
I do that often, but it doesn’t seem to help!
Haha…it’s not so much that if I lay out the clothes I will go running, but the opposite is true: if I don’t lay out the clothes I 100% definitely will NOT go.
Major props for getting out there!! I would have totally let myself go back to sleep instead of running after a night like that. But, if I had the ocean to run near, maybe I’d be more motivated to get up 🙂 Your commute sounds like mine… endless. Hope it wasn’t too bad!
Yes, the ocean is definitely helpful. Part of what gets me out of bed is the thought of being outside. My commute is pretty terrible, but I’ve made a switch so the morning commute is worse than evening, and that’s helped a lot compared to the reverse. 🙂
Give you yourself some credit! You got out there and did it! If you’re not used to having to get up so early it can take some getting used to.
Yeah, I’m certainly hoping I’ll get used to it. My legs are very confused when I make them run at 5:30AM. 🙂