Thanks, weather people
Did I mention how much I hate mornings? If it were up to me, marathons would begin at 6 p.m.
Some people run better at night, some in the mornings. (Some not at all) The later for me, the better, but when the so-called weather experts forecast temperatures in the 100s for the weekend, it meant waking up before my 6-month-old son.
Faced with a seven mile run Saturday and 11 miles on Sunday, I was up by 5:15 a.m. By the time I ate something and stretched -- it takes me about an hour to get out of the house in the morning – it was close to 6:30 a.m. I figured with high temperatures forecast, I should be done as early as possible because it wouldn’t cool down at night.
But ya’ know what amazes me?
How often the forecasts are wrong. I know, I should know better. Yet, for some reason, I don’t.
Our atomic clock/ thermometer reached 98 Saturday, then never got above 95 on Sunday. No, I wouldn’t have run in the dead heat of the day, but the lower temperatures meant I could have run later in the morning (like after England beat Ecuador on Sunday) or in the evening, when the sun would have gone down and the day cooled off more than if it were in the 100s.
However, I do enjoy being home by 8:30 a.m. and knowing my running is over with.
On a different subject, I would say within the next three weeks I will need a new pair of running shoes. My current ones have 256 miles of training on them, plus I wore them about 50 miles worth of running before training. I was told they would be good for 400 to 500 miles.
But a key is to get the new ones in time to break them in for the race, but not use them too much so the padding and stability remains intact for the race.
This coming week is when training really kicks up. Rather than the short runs being four miles, they are five. And the intermediate runs jump up to eight miles.
My schedule for the week is 5 miles (Tuesday), 8 miles (Wednesday), 5 miles (Thursday), 8 miles (Saturday) and 17 miles (Sunday).
Comments
LOL on the weather. One of my favorite sayings is if you wash your car you can be certain it will rain. Now I am really glad I am in San Diego. It is amazing to see runners in that kind of heat. I can't wait until you and your son do a training blog together! Keep it going Brian you serve as an inspiration to many. Ted
Posted by: Ted Bloom | June 27, 2006 8:24 AM