3:45am!

How about that heading!!!!!! Today marks 12 days until race day, anxiety is setting in! I wish the race was tomorrow... just to get rid of this feeling of anticipation! The only thing I am not ready for is on race day we have to meet in the lobby at 3:45am! I usually wake up in the middle of the night around 3am from my bladder but then I am fast asleep after that, LOL! That won't be the case on June 1st!

I am going to be praying for sleep that evening! I hate alarm clocks and anyone who knows me can second that notion! Although I will be bringing my alarm clock to assure my waking up at 3:30am occurs, argh! I am so not a morning person or a night person! I am solar powered and I don't recall any solar activity at 3:45am!

Yesterday was a bit cooler than the last few days! I ended up doing my miles along the beach (the coolest spot I could think of)! It was 75 degrees and clear, a perfect beach day! I did receive a compliment, I think, while I was out running!?! A stranger (man and his wife/girlfriend) were riding their bikes along the bike path that I was running on and spoke to me in passing. He said "keep on running"! I replied with a giggle and kept on running! When my Garmin watch said 4 miles, I was done and stopped running and walked over to my car! Not even 2 parking spaces away were that couple who passed me on their bikes! They told me that while they were out on riding on the beach, I was the only one who wasn't wearing headphones in my ears, so he thought to give me an encouraging boost to keep going! I thought it was cool that perfect strangers told me of their observation!

My reply to them was: I can't run with things in my ears and I like to know of my surroundings since I am alone and a female! The woman he was with agreed with me on that and they both said that I must have worked twice as hard as they did. I told them, "exercise is good, no matter how you do it!" I don't think my running 4 miles was any better than their bike ride! Any exercise burns calories... and that is all that matters for everyone! They were cute and made my day!

I was pretty stressed out at work and while I was stressed I thought about running the tension out of my body! That was another reason for doing my 4 miles yesterday!

Today is 6 miles and Gwynne will be joining me with the TNT gang! It is cloudy today and that equates to cooler weather! It should be the nicest run we will have ran in a while!

Have a Happy Tuesday, watch for my hump day post!
Melissa