This morning when my alarm went off I didn't want to get out of bed... I'd stayed up until after 11 last night waiting for the bread machine to finish and then woke at 5AM, but thought that was too early to go for a run. I was probably more awake at 5AM than 6! I got out of bed by 6:15 and was out the door at 6:38. Not too bad, but I really need to speed that up...

Todays run was a "simple" out and back route. I walked to the end of the driveway then started running... the first man 4km were uphill and then again for kms 9-12. I didn't quite manage negative splits, but by the start of the last downhill my left hip was bothering me, so I didn't push it too much and for the last 1+km I ran on the "wrong" side of the road so that I could give my hip a break (from the road curve). It was all in all a good run, but not sure about some drivers... some move over so far they are completely on the other side of the road (Thanks!) and others don't move over at all and I feel like I need to run in the ditch! Luckily most of todays run had decent shoulder space so when cars did pass me, I had space to move off the road (I probably saw 20-30 cars on my run). As for others, I saw one cyclist, one lone runner, and a group of 3 runners that I ran with for approximately 2km... and a number of deer... It was a great morning run, although I wasn't really awake for the first km or two!


Split Time Distance Pace
-1 00:04:54 0.50 09:51 Warm Up Walk
-2 00:06:59 1.00 06:59 Uphill
-3 00:06:19 1.00 06:19 Uphill
-4 00:06:26 1.00 06:26 Uphill
-5 00:06:01 1.00 06:01 Uphill
-6 00:05:43 1.00 05:43 Downhill
-7 00:05:19 1.00 05:19 Downhill
-8 00:05:31 1.00 05:31 Downhill
-9 00:05:06 1.00 05:06 Downhill
10 00:06:20 1.00 06:20 Uphill
11 00:06:05 1.00 06:05 Uphill
12 00:06:39 1.00 06:39 Uphill
13 00:06:54 1.00 06:54 Uphill
14 00:06:06 1.00 06:06 Downhill
15 00:05:54 1.00 05:54 Downhill
16 00:06:02 1.00 06:02 Downhill
17 00:06:09 1.00 06:09 Downhill
18 00:06:08 0.68 08:58 Cool down walk

Plans for the rest of the day include a 5km walk with our 9yo son and some kayaking. My husband also went out for a 9km run this morning and will be jogging with our 7yo daughter later. Now we are off to the farmers market!