Against the Wind

This week has been an interesting running week.A head cold, sick kids and pure exhaustion have left me no choice but to shake my running schedule up a bit. I always aim to run 4 times a week and to make that heppen this week I have to run both tomorrow and Sunday night. I have already run 4 miles twice this week. Tonight was interesting. I felt slow and sluggish from the get go. Then I realized why. I stayed homr from work to take care of Carson and as it usually goes with sick babies there is not a whole lot of time to think about your own needs. I realized that I had not eaten very much and had what was the equivalent to a glass of water all day. It doesn't take a genius to know that that is not a good set up for an easy run. I had it in my head that I was only going to run 3 miles tonight. I felt like I was barely moving and had to pee about 2 miles in. It didn't help that every house I ran by had their sprinkler on!Just as I was coming up on the third mile I got a little bit of a second wind.Instead of stopping at my house I ran on to complete the 4th mile. I just kept telling myself, "You've already run 4 miles twice, you can't go back down to 3 miles!" Well it was mind over body tonight and it worked.:)