Week 5: Day 5 - 2012

cardio:

• hilly trail (@ 6:30am) = 1.1 miles
• warm up = 1.1 mile
• cool down = 1.1 mile

I don't know what happened to me, I couldn't sleep until after midnight last night. I woke up feeling tired and not really in the mood to run. I decided that I'd feel better if I just ran because it would be short. At the end of my warm up, I thought about just skipping the hill run and just turn around (2.2 miles round trip), calling that a run. I decided against that and ran the hills. Should have listened to myself because I felt worse. I barely made it past the most challenging part of the trail/hills (near the beginning) when I stopped for a break because I felt so unhappy and really unmotivated. I hadn't done that in a long time, taking a break near the beginning on the most challenging part of the run. I sorta felt a little better after the short break and kept running the rest of the trail/run, but I took another break at the halfway point before finishing my run. I hope that this bad mood was just from lack of sleep, and I hope to sleep better tomorrow night so I can run normally on Sunday morning. I'm wide awake now and don't feel the need to rest or go back to sleep.

I did time my hill run, but I'm not sure if I even recorded it right after starting/stopping my stopwatch. It says that my run was faster than past hill runs, but I don't believe it, so I'm just going to record my run distance and not the finish time.