Week 6

I took it pretty easy this week. I was supposed to run Tu, Wed, Th, Sat, Sun but Tuesday was Election night. I go to work at my normal time on Election night but usually don't get home till the wee hours of the morning. I was going to go to work late so I could get in some running but because of having such a hard time on Sunday and discovering I probably had exercise induced asthma, I decided to just skip Tuesday's run. I didn't get home till 3 AM Wednesday morning and had a Dr appt at 9:30. He gave me an inhaler which seems to work well. Long story short, I skipped Wednesday's run as well. Thursday got away from me but being off on Friday, I decided to do my normal Thursday run on Friday morning since I was off.

Friday I had an easy 6 mile run. Hitting the wall on Sunday made me rethink a few things so I decided to try taking a bottle of Gatorade with me on Friday instead of just water. That worked out really well, I had lots of energy at the end. I ran 5 miles on Saturday and another 5 this morning (Sunday). I tried just water on Saturday but I started out really stiff but it was still a pretty easy run. The 5 miles this morning was pretty smooth too.

Next week is another big test, the Motive half marathon. I'll let you know how I do.