Work and training

So if your like me, there will be times your work gets in the way of life a bit. But it really is all about what you choose to do with it that counts. In my case I was asked to go to Louisiana in December for a field study to see how players liked my game. That meant that I needed to go during the week and I had to be there during training. That also meant that I was going to stay up late and get up super early. All while eating amazing food. Oh and there was lots of it and none of it was healthy or helped in my running. But who cares because it's so yummy... Sorry Ill get back to the running part. Well I packed my running gear because I thought it would be cool to run at sea level and get some new sights in while I get ready for the SW Half marathon weekend.  At this point I had gotten in another 6 mile run and I was pretty constantly running at least 3 times a week with most runs around 3 - 4.5 miles.


The morning of my run I had to get up at 5:30am to run. I had been up super late and my gut was not feeling right from all the great food. I had planned on trying for 6 miles. The weather felt good so I headed out. There was no elevation so it was super flat and I could breath almost to good. I was having a great run going down Veterans Memorial Blvd heading towards Lafrenier Park Lagoon. At about 2 miles in I was sure I was going to get in another 6 mile run... Then all of a sudden I ran out of side walk. The side walk just ended and the only way to keep going was to merge on to a freeway. Well I was not going to do that, so I headed back. I ran the way I came and the weird thing was all of a sudden my energy I had just before mile 2 started zapping away fast. WTF how could that be? Well let me tell you, after a couple miles running in humidity you feel it. So now my goal was to get back to the hotel and fortunately I did in the upright position. Running in that kind of humidity is not easy.

Sooo good.

 

I found where the sidewalk ends.

 

My total run was only 3.59 miles. Boo!