Wasted Continuum

This weekend I ran the Monster Dash 5K. It is a costumed race around Lake Harriet starting at the Bandshell. I ran it with my sister and her husband. It was my sister’s first race. She did great. I ran with an injured ankle, but I was still able to finish without furthering my injury. I will be taking this week off from running. I did not run my best time, but I did significantly better than my first race. I’m considering running the Turkey Day 5K again next month. I took a few photos from the day. Check them out on my Flickr.

By the way, I dressed up as Bruce Lee from Game of Death. If I had another two weeks to grow out my hair, I would have got the look down better. I got a few compliments. I guess that is good enough for me.

My running schedule has been completely destroyed by my work these last few weeks. I may have ran twice in the last three weeks. Today is one of the first days that I was able to leave work at a decent time. I took full advantage of it and ran just over 5K. It felt so good, but I was a bit sluggish. I’m hoping that this week I can get back into my routine.

Instead of doing my usual 5K today, I opted to go with a 30 minute run. I wanted to try something different. Since it was so humid today, I figured that I couldn’t actually do a 5K anyway. Since I have asthma, I don’t like to push myself in these conditions. I felt good after the run. I might do more 30 minute runs so I don’t feel so pressured to run 5K every time.

It was hot today. It’s going to be a steady 80 degree week. The sun was almost at full force. I haven’t ran in a week because I was staying late a bit work last week. So today I was not expecting to run more than a block before quitting and going home. I did end up running 2.5 miles. Definitely shy of my usual 5 kilometers. I actually set my run to 30 minutes instead of a distance. I won’t be able to run the next two nights. That means I have to go Thursday and Friday. I really need to go buy a bike so I can at least do some late night biking to work my legs a little.

Today was way too humid. It was already super sunny and hot. The humidity definitely got the best of me. I only ran one lap around Como Lake. I didn’t want to trigger an asthma attack. Hopefully Wednesday will be more forgiving.

I really needed to clear my head today. The run really helped even though it wasn’t a good run.