Wednesday am run, what what??

Time: 6:00am
Location: My home, out and back on Jollyville
Workout: 4 miles easy
People: Me and all the cars going to work
Weather: Cool, but muggy
Comments: In order to wake up to run during the week, which I normally don't do. I had to set an alarm clock in my bathroom. This consists of having to get out of bed, walk about 20 feet and stay awake. I set it for 5:30am, and it only took me 30 minutes to get out of bed, this is good!! I figured out that if I set the "alarm" then I normally just get up irritated, turn it off and crawl back into bed. If I set the "radio" then it wakes me up, and it gets my brain going. Very good revelation!!

I immediately woke up thinking, "Meredith told me to eat within 30 minutes!!" I started wondering if my off/on sleep from 5:30am to 6:00am counted, and I think that was the deciding factor to my getting up. I went to the fridge, grabbed a handful of grapes, got dressed and was super proud of myself to be running at 6:00am. It was still really dark, but the weather was cool and the miles seemed to go by fast. Slow, but fast. Legs felt ok, but I couldn't get going. I always find it interesting how I can run MGP at 8:47 and it feel comfortable and other days it takes everything I have to not drop below 11:00's. Run is done, Meredith diet starts today (more about that in a later post) and I can get to work early and play some poker tonight, guilt free that I'm not missing my run or have to get home in time to run :)

Splits:
1) 10:43
2) 10:53
3)10:39
4)10:28