Evening Jaunt

I managed to sneak a quick 3 miler in yesterday morning, but this morning, not so much. Sam appears to be a morning person like me, and has recently taken to getting up at 6:30 am. This is not a problem, it just means I really have to get up and go early if I'm going to run and not interfere with our limited morning time together. And although I am a morning person, I have not yet had the energy to get up and out the door at 5:30am despite my good intentions. I was not happy about not getting my run in this morning, but as I sat at work, looking outside at the beautiful weather, I had a revelation. I could get a short run in after we put Sam to bed tonight! Sure, evening isn't my preferred time to run, and part of me feels like these short 3 milers are a bit like junk miles given that I'm training for a 50k race, but 3 miles in the evening would be better than nothing. I floated the idea to Ryan, and he was all for it. Problem solved (at least for today!).

Sam was asleep by 6:50pm. We wish she would stay up a bit later and therefore maybe sleep in a bit later in the morning, but today she didn't go down for a late afternoon nap, so she'd been up since 1:20pm. That is a long time for a little 6 month old to be up, and although cheery, she was clearly tired. She was asleep before her head hit the crib sheet! After a few minutes of watching her asleep in the crib, I put on my running clothes and my new pair of Inov-8s, and snuck out. It was a gorgeous evening. The air was warm, the birds were chirping, my shadow was long before me as I ran along the powerlines in the soft evening light and all around me the trees, grass and shrubs were sporting their early spring colors. My shoes, which I typically wouldn't call cushiony, felt great - nice and cushy beneath my feet - I guess the insoles of my last pair were pretty packed out after 300+ miles. Overall, a very enjoyable evening run!