Today according to my training plan I am scheduled to run 8 miles. Alas, at 4:15 am I was awoken by a flash flood warning alert on my phone and a violent thunderstorm. Between that and my wifely obligations of making sure my husband gets out the door to work on time, the 8 miles didn't happen this morning :-/
But that's okay because I'm just going to be flexible in my training. I think that if I tried to rigidly follow my training plan to the letter I would not only fail to follow the plan, I'd become extremely frustrated with myself. The prospect park track club puts on a 5k every other Wednesday evening in the summer. I'm going to run 2 miles before it and turn today into my 5 mile run day. It will be around 80 or 81 degrees at race time, so I'm not expecting magic, but I do expect to PR. I've only run two previous 5ks: once in college when I didn't run consistently and once last summer right after coming back from a severe ankle sprain. You could say that my 5k PR is just a bit soft ;-)
Running the 5k tonight should be fun. I have a couple of friends running it and I think that running should be a social activity at least sometimes. Also, because my PR is so soft, I don't actually have to race to beat it - I just have to put in a reasonable effort. A low pressure last minute race is what I'm all about. Also, for $5 I can't really beat the price.
I have no turned off the national weather service alarms on my phone; this way the national weather service won't interrupt my sleep and mess with my marathon training again. The weather itself is a whole other beast which I unfortunately can't change by swiping left on my phone.
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