Trying out the am run.

I am a morning person. I will gladly wake up at 6:30ish and revel in the fact that I have a good 2 hours before I must leave the house for my office. I'll do laundry, tackle dishes, etc. I enjoy the my morning java with talk radio. I am, in essence, a retired woman trapped inside a 26 year old's body.

Enter morning running. Cue the "I'm a morning person" persona racing out of the room to hide in the closet. See, I am all about morning household to-do lists. Morning runs? Not so much.

This goes against everything I will have to do in 4 weeks at the half marathon. Since the start time is when? Oh yes, 7am.

So this morning, I decided to give a weekday am run a go. I had 5 miles to tackle, and I figured backing into that frightening 7am start time would be a good way to manage. If I ran at 8 or 9am, then shifted it a half-hour earlier each weekend, I would end up thinking 7am and 13.1 miles go together like, well, peanut butter and jam.

Running at 8am requires the requisite eating of a snack at 6am, which means I have to set and alarm and a banana at my bedside, eat said banana in a groggy haze, and go back to bed for another 30 mins/hour ish.

It also means I get to run my slow butt around rush hour traffic while everyone says "Gee - that girl is sweating far too much given how slow she's running..." But I managed my 5 miles today. It wasn't the most exciting or interesting run, but I completed it, and came close to my race time from this past weekend. Hooray!

The other fun part? A grandfather was taking his two grandkids to breakfast this morning at a cafe near my house. I ran by them as they were walking in, and then ran by them at the end of my run, as they were leaving the cafe and getting in their car. The 10 year old promptly asked "Have you been running this whole time?"...to which I responded (short of breath) - "YUP!" : )

Big. Grin.

Oh - and for the record, I did no household errands this morning. Left my gym clothes on the bathroom floor like the bachelor I met 9 years ago. Sorry honey - I'll tidy up when I get home this pm. : )