Tired But Happy

The last few days (since the cramping and general uncomfortableness of the early CDs has passed) have moved towards getting back to normal, but oh and I so tired.  So tired.  Which doesnt bode well for getting up early and running.

I'm a later-in-the-day runner.  Afternoons, evenings, nights.  Love those runs.  Even the every now and again 11am run.  But that's about the extent of my love for morning runs.  I just dont care for them.  I dont feel awake; my body still feels asleep and running like that... Ugh... It takes me a good mile normally to wake up; in the morning, it feels like I dont wake up until the 2nd mile and, at that point, I'm trying to convince myself to just keep going. 

That being said, I did a morning 5K last weekend, where I made my personal record: 3.25 miles in 28:28.  (Okay, so my "official" time was 28:31 but that was based on the whistle blow that started the race and I was in the middle of the pack, so my time was a few seconds shy of that.)  I'm pretty psyched about that. 

But, other than that single example of a good morning run, I'm thinking about other things... Baby things... It's fairly easy for Peter to handle Bobby and Maya in the evenings so that I can leave for a half hour to an hour for a standard run.  But, with a baby in the house, that schedule will be turned upside down, in favor of the sleep 3-4 hours, up/change/eat/rock/snuggle/go-back-to-bed.  It's going to be interesting during the day; but at night, when 2 toddlers need to bathe and go to bed too, it's going to be a 2 person job.  And terribly unfair if I try to sneak away.

But, as I learned from the week that I didnt run because we were submerged in adoption paperwork, I NEED to run.  It's no longer just something I do; it's a part of my week.  So, I'm going to have to change things up if I expect to get in 3-4 runs a week.

So the morning it is.  My hope/goal/whatever is to get out of bed at 5:30 or so.  (I'm usually up around 7:30, so this is a big deal).  We'll see.  In addition to my body not being awake, the idea of getting out of bed 2 hours before normal does not make my mind all that happy either.

But better now to get used to it than a month from now!