I've been trying so hard to keep with my schedule the past few weeks, but it's been more difficult than I had anticipated. Sleeping late bears a big factor in it :) Kind of like a cycle that just develops, you sleep late, you feel too tired in the morning to do the run. I did manage one run at least. Though, I definitely think it's affected my lsd on the weekends.Today, I left the house late, wasn't able to sleep last night after witnessing a fight break out in the subway. Although thankfully this time I wasn't actually an injured party of it. What luck though. Out of maybe 7 compartments, I end up in one that has a dispute on it. I do hope they start transitioning the new subways [http://www.blogto.com/city/2010/10/ttc_unveils_new_rocket_subway_trains/] soon.
At any rate, I still managed to push myself to gear up and head out. No slacking, the month of race madness is literally around the corner. Next week, first race up is the CIBC breast cancer run for the cure. I've been consecutively for the past 5 years been a participant and contributor to this cause. Gotta love the pink that shows up on race day! Each year I notice the growing number of participants, and it really is amazing. A mix of breast cancer survivors, people running for loved ones, it is truely inspiring to among such a wonderful group of people.
CIBC Run for the Cure - October 2, 2011 (5km Run)
And then the marathon madness. I should really check in and see if I've simply gone insane or am just overly ambitious. Or both. And plus some (as one of friends may add). hahaha. She is not far from the truth there... :D
After gearing up, grabbed a quick bite of bagel (I actually ended up eating a whole bagel! lots of butter on top... how healthy is that?! lol My dad gave a nice commentary: most people put butter on one side, just because I'm running, I give my excuse that I could put butter on both sides! But hey, at least I eat the slices separately. Double buttered as one bagel doesn't feel right to me...).
My run started nice and steady, yawned a couple times :P, but by the time I was in my 5th km, I was in my groove. The weather was actually quite nice. According to the forecast, it was suppose to rain all weekend (last I checked anyhow). Instead, a pleasant surprise of cool and perfect running weather was presented. I couldn't believe my luck...especially given the fact I started my run at 9am! Goodness, that was usually around the time I started to taper off on my lsd and head home. Give or take my distance. Oh well, I guess consistancy has been going out the door the past weeks, why not this too? hehe.
There were a lot of runners today, definitely weather related. Not as many bikers as I expected though. As I ran, I noticed some pretty random things. I saw this guy, well built, runner like, biking towards me. Normally it would escape my notice, but lol he had little basket in front of his bike and there inside was the cutest little dog ever! I think it was a shitzu. hehe. I really couldn't help but let that distrupt my running rhythm. Another woman walking by also looked at me with a slight smirk on her face. Nothing wrong with a guy with a dog.. but on a bike with it in a little basket... hehehe. too cute.
I kept my pacing up pretty well for the first 10km, but I started really to fade as I got into my 15-18km. By the time 20km came around, the sun was becoming a little unbearable, despite the cool wind in the air. I never much liked the beaming of sun on my face. Even with a cap. I kept thinking that I should have brought sunblock. By 21 km, I grudgingly had to cut the lsd short and start running off my route and heading home. I went on my cooldown at 23.5km.
Maybe for next saturday I could do a long run pre cibc run day :)
