9 mile Saturday

So I had a terrible night of sleep. It took almost 4 hours to fall asleep. I had some caffeine later in the evening and my brain let me know. Kept having marathon thoughts...mainly good....but it still wouldn't let me sleep. I finally forced myself up at 9:00 which kind of made me feel lazy. I was out ready to run around 9:30. The first mile was very difficult again and it kind of makes me think that I am still a little low in the blood. Up until about mile 3 I was wondering if I was going to make it. I finally found my rhythm and things although difficult started to fall into place. I saw a only one person out running...and that was odd. I had some issues with the stopwatch. I had never had an issue with hitting the "split" button on my watch....but I did. So I have no real clue how long the lights were so I am guessing very conservatively on my time....just so I don't seem a little fishy with the timing. So I will say according to the time that I did the run in 1 hr 28 min and 47 secs. Not a great time...but deep down I know I was quite a bit better than that so I will accept it and move on.

I have reached the 1/3 mark in my training. It has been getting harder to get out. I can tell my body doesn't like being forced to keep to a routine quite like this. That being said....I am really glad that I am doing this. I stepped on the scale after my run and I broke 190 lbs. So for me that is another record and it feels good.

My route:

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Then a little of this:

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