Race Day Dreams

Last night I had an awful sleep. I coughed a whole bunch (I thought I was done with this cold!!). I spent some time banging around the two bathrooms and kitchen and couldnt find the cough syrup. I ended up coming out to the couch to sleep so I wasnt keeping my husband up. But, the couch blanket was downstairs in the wash from when my little one was puking so it was cold and not very comfy. I tried going back to bed around 3am but ended up coughing a bunch more. I finally fell asleep and had one of my frustrating race day dreams.

I often dream I show up to one of my races and I'm missing something important. But last nights dream just went on and on. I didnt have my phone, then I didnt have socks on, then I had these old man loafer shoes on that kept falling off, then I got a new bib number and I couldnt get it on, then I had the wrong phone! I remember actually thinking in my dream "I wish this was a bad dream!" So needless to say I woke up this morning feeling tired and a little out of it.

Work was super busy though so it kept me hopping all morning. I did my weights at morning coffee and then my running buddy and I were doing 5 miles at lunch. The goal was to do them at between 8:09-8:20. So I set up my iphone up with the following paces:

We were both super tired though and not sure how it was going to go. But we got out and felt great! I love "comfortably hard"! Its a pace that feels like I'm getting a good workout in, but I can still chat fairly easily throughout. I finished it on such a high!

Without the warm-up included we averaged 8:10 (yay!) and if you include the warm-up it was 8:20...I'm pleased with that!