This morning’s run was fraught with meteorological issues and technical problems. I want a do over.
Given that it wasn’t a long run, I opted to get up at 6am rather than 5am. And I learned an important lesson….I prefer 5am. And perhaps long runs. Yikes!
I’m not entirely sure that today’s humidity was linked to the time of day. That is – it was better at 5am the other day – cause the other day was less humid. It was horrid this am – and I suspect it was even bad at 5am (however at that hour I was in the midst of a crazy dream…). Some days in Florida, you can walk out the front door and WHAM hit the humid wall. Other days, like today, you step outside and feel fine for a few minutes and then you slowly become aware of the sweat that is seeping out of you at a rapidly increasing pace.
So, while the sweat was starting to flow, I only made it about .1 of a mile when technology tripped me up. I’ve occasionally found the Galloway 10k app to be buggy. That is – the music is out of sync or the app thinks it’s in the middle of a workout rather than at the beginning. Usually the problem is easily resolved. Not today. I kept walking to warm up while poking at the iPod. I then switched to using Nike+GPS and a new app that just does interval timing…so I could get the walk/run reminders but that’s it. However, that didn’t work with Nike+. So after walking and sweating and taking the iPod’s name in vain for 1/3 of a mile, I just gave it all up and stuck with Nike+ only.
The rest of my time out there wasn’t horrid….in fact I had some success with longer running stretches. One of my small concerns about the 10K app is that it is currently set at 1 min run/1 min walk. I haven’t been able to change that setting and I’m not sure that is the ratio I want. It was good to get myself started thinking about longer distances – but I want to push myself to eventually get to a longer run portion of the ratio. Once I ignored the apps and the sweat, I was managing 3 min stretches of running for every minute of walking…which made me happy.
Not a bad run overall….and got to see another sunrise. What a treat.
I’ve been stuck on week one of the Bridge to 10k program forEVer… it’s got me doing 10minutes run/ 1minute walk (x4)… Didn’t have time for it this morning, so I just ran 30 minutes straight- but I’m thinking if I want to get those long runs in I’m going to have to start getting up at 5, too.
My, my how the last year has changed us!
That is the bad part – having time to get the run in. And while I’ve been doing the 5am (okay 5:30) thing….I don’t know how long I can keep that up! 🙂 But I just keep telling myself that if I ran faster I’d be done faster! And yes – if you had told me a year ago that I’d be getting up at 5 am to run 4 miles – I’d have had you locked up at the funny farm…..