Another Midnight Run

Look out! I may be turning into a midnight runner. I'm going to change my name to Dexy. Well, I was bad and didn't run all week. Not to make excuses, but I had some late nights at work and I had trouble getting up in the morning/afternoon. I can usually operate easily on 7-8 hours of sleep a night, but this week for some reason, I seemed to be sleeping closer to nine or ten hours a night. I think maybe I was fighting something because I had quite a few nasty headaches - allergies maybe?

So I got home around 10:00pm last night, and decided that I would go for another late night run. I left around 11:30pm. It was a humid night. It was weird that even though it was pretty warm outside, I could still see my breath in the beam of my headlamp. I guess that was due to the humidity. It was a nice, peaceful night for a run; although I was accosted by a dog that ran across the road barking at me. I stopped dead in my tracks, stood my ground, and put my hand out palm down in case the dog wanted to check me out. He stopped when he got to me and just kind of looked at me. I turned to continue on my way and he chased me another step. I stopped again, and by that time, the dog's owner had called him back across the street. It's a good thing that this incident didn't happen in the middle of the day because the road along which I was running is a busy one.

I had an enjoyable run and spent the time making plans for my week of vacation in my head. Thursday and Friday are holidays for me at work so I took off the other three days to make it a full week. We don't have any big plans so I have a bunch of small recreational activities that I am considering. I came up with a few ideas on my run. I had forgotten how active my mind always is after a run. I couldn't seem to stop the thoughts and ideas running through my head after I got back.

I still can have a good week. I hit the treadmill after my workout on Thursday night for a brisk and hilly walk, I ran after getting home on Friday, and I'm going to run again on Sunday. I won't get my three runs in for the week, but I'm going to run a little farther on Sunday, which I had planned to do anyway. I'll have my vacation week to get back on track with the running. I won't have the gym at work to do my weight workouts, but I'll do push ups and crunches a few times to compensate.