And everyone seems to be smiling and giddy with the light. I end up not sleeping all that well during this time of year. It's too light and the clues to be sleepy just aren't there. I want to run and bike and work in the yard and just enjoy sitting outside on the deck.
All of a sudden the yard is out of control and I easily fill up our yard waste container in a couple hours. I've been harvesting handfuls of snap peas off our plants and raspberries are copious. The blueberries are almost ripe and I'm contemplating reseeding arugula, chard and kale for fall crops.
The running attitude is doing pretty well too. Scotiabank Half definitely did not play out like I'd hoped. But there was a real difference in my attitude with this one. By mile 8 and 9, I was ready and knew I'd be able to keep racing. Unfortunately my body had some different ideas. That is different than half marathons lately. I'd get to mile 6 or 7 and think "i can't do this" or my mind would just sort of check out and the legs would follow.
I had a really nice very hilly 11 mile easy run this past Saturday. Sunday I was planning for some more moderate miles again over some hills. I'll admit that I was a bit nervous about running another 6 miles at faster than just "slog." But I got out there and had no problems hitting the intended pace and felt great! My legs were tired but it didn't matter. I think that if i'd gone out there to just run a few miles, my attitude of grumpy, tired and sloggy would've slowed me down and made getting in the intended mileage a challenge. Attitude. Yep, it's all about attitude sometimes.
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