K-Fab Running: My commitment to making Saturdays run the worst!

Before I get started on my whine fest. Check out how awesome my phone is.

Tells me how long it would take for me to get home. How cool is that? Yeah, I've had my iPhone for almost 3 years now. I may be technologically challenged but I get there sooner or later.

I ran Saturday. It was more then awful. It's almost like the week leading to the run was planned out to sabotage it. Of course when your a runner and there is a run on the calendar then you run. I started out with good enough intentions but in the end my commitment to make it horrid was too much for even my running spirit to overcome.

WIND - I understand I don't control the weather. I do know that my 8 miler earlier in the week on the same running path was pretty darn windy. Somehow it forgot to click in my head how windy the Jordan Parkway can be this time of year. Saturday the wind managed to be head on BOTH ways. Magic wind I tell you!

LATE - I set my alarm for 8 and planned to be running by 9:30. Not too bad for a Saturday. It's getting cooler and I don't have to get up at O dark 30. Night shift on Thursday night messed me up a little and I woke up at 3am ready to party. Finally fell back to sleep at 5am and did not wake up until 1045. YES. I slept through a double alarm. That, my friends, is talent. Take note. I started my run at 1:30pm.

PRE-WORKOUT - huh. who knew? I just perused the book 80/20 and decided to try the longer slower miles. In order to make sure I'm going slow enough then it's good to monitor heart rate. I bought a new pre-workout for when I start running really long miles and for some reason thought SATURDAY was the day to try it. It works! I couldn't even understand my thoughts my body was racing so fast. My heart rate? Don't ask. For a little while I would have had to lie down in the grass to get it within my training range.

PREPARATION - Usually I have all my clothes and gear out the night before a relatively early run. I didn't do that. It didn't slow me down too much but usually if it's out I don't procrastinate as much. I also didn't tape my knee the night before which I usually do.

BREAKFAST - I wanted a good breakfast and had planned to make banana pancakes. I did make them. I made them for me and my son and added some bacon. Really took my time. But not very fast because I was on my feet within an hour of such a delicious meal that wasn't quite ready to run on.

CORE WORK - I did some core work at PT on Friday but I didn't do all of it. That is the secret to pain free running right now. Really strengthen those glutes and hammies. SO I did about 20 minutes of it just before I left for my run.

Speaking of physical therapy. These are the torture tools that are keeping me running. "Hurts so good", Tera Schatz.

AND THE GRAND FINALE!!!
I was on day 14 of the 21 day Primal challenge with my daily carbohydrate intake under 100 g. (My big push to try and loose that 10 lbs before Ragnar Vegas) I had ZERO energy. I know the carb flu well and it was almost peaked on this day. I don't know if I could have changed this by eating a few more carbs or carbs the night before and that morning. I just didn't feel well.

Felt just like that only I was thinking....have I hit 14 min miles yet?

I had planned to run 8 miles. The first 2 miles were not bad. Pretty slow but I still felt like I could move forward. The next 2 were awful and no good. I tried having a GU (salted caramel) and I could barely choke down half of it. Then I tried running 3 minutes and walking 2. Finally at 4 miles I decided to turn back to my car that was 2 miles away. I ran a little here and there but at 4.5 miles I walked and didn't run any more. I don't remember having this bad of a run in a very long time. My average pace was over 12 min/miles so I was barely scooting long. I'm going to scratch that up to lesson learned and somedays runs are just bad. I did take some pics to take up some time.