6 Miles Today
Boy today was tough. I got up this morning, and my legs were still tired from running 3 out of the last 4 days for the first time in…I don’t want to know when.
In fact, I just couldn’t do it. I set my alarm clock for another hour and went back to bed.
At work, I thought it over. I can get out at a reasonable hour today, and I don’t have anything going on tonight. Maybe I can get my running done after work.
So that’s what I decided to do. But I got to tell you, I wasn’t feeling it when I got home. I was tired. But I didn’t want to think of dogging it again. I was already behind. So I did why any moron like me would do…
I drank a Red Bull (breakfast of champions!) while washing down two aspirin to thin out the blood and get that Red Bull goodness coursing through your veins even faster!
And oh, what the heck. Let’s have us a Runner’s GU for dessert. 
I was ready.
I made sure to grab an old cap to wear while running this time so the %$#@ bugs wouldn’t bother me while I was running. I had fresh batteries in the Garmin and I was off.
Because of the recent rain, the trees overhead were especially wet, which seemed to adversely affect my Garmin’s reception. For more than a mile, nothing got logged, just a “Weak GPS Signal” message. 
Eventually, my Garmin caught up, but I think some of my distance got missed because I had to run past my beginning point when I should have ended up where I started.
Toward the end, I was coming up on 6 miles….and 1 hour. I really did not want to go past my 10 minute mile. It wasn’t a requirement, but I had been averaging a 10 minute mile for the last few weeks.
I struggled and tried my best to sprint, but there was no sprinting after a 2 week vacation from running and several weeks of just plain dogging it before.
I huffed and puffed..my legs felt like lead jelly. 5.6 miles, 5.8 miles, 5.94 miles. I kept looking down at my Garmin and finally….
I MADE IT!!!
But let me tell you.
It
went
down
to
the
wire!
How far down to the fire?
Well, I’ll let you be the judge!
