The tired run

We have a sick 3 year old at home.  Running a fever and overall just lethargic and cranky.  Because of this he didn't sleep well, and when he doesn't sleep well, we don't sleep well.  I had done a lot of research on running last year as I was working up my mileage and pace.  I never really wanted to put too much effort into it, just enough to feel good.  But one thing that I read from a lot of places was that getting in good sleep habits really makes a difference.  I can tell you that I believe this to be true!

Three year old MsSickypants was up at about 12:30 to climb into bed.  He is an active sleeper anyways and we really prefer not to get him in the habit of climbing into bed with us.  But we figured he was sick so we would make an exception.  Well, that wasn't the best of moves when trying to get out a decent run.  Was up often trying to get comfortable, and finally at about 3:30 he decided he wanted to watch a movie and not stay in our bed.  At that point I was going to be up in the next half hour anyways so might as well have breakfast and stretch out.  It was a cool 28 degrees when I left the house, which doesn't help in motivation either.  My legs didn't feel good through most of the run, mostly just very sluggish.  I did the 8 mile route in the maps section.  After about 7 miles I really needed to push myself to get moving.

My breakfast was the same.  I am going to change that up on Thursday when I head out.  I will probably try for 7 miles on Thursday, depending if I can find my headlamp.  The 7 mile route has some spots with out light.  My oldest son was pretending he was Tony Stark with it over the weekend and it seems to be missing.  Such is life with kids.

My plan is to get to up my long run by 1 mile every week leading up to our Florida vacation.  That should put me at 12 miles at that point.  I still plan on running while at Disney, there is a 1 mile track that goes around the three All Star resorts where we will be staying.  I would like to be able to get out on those at least 4 of the days we will be there, depending on what time we can get into the parks.  I guess we will see how it goes.