Summer Time Runs

Summer is here and it's starting to get hot.  It's been a stressful month for my oldest stepson got married on the 17th.  It was a beautiful wedding, but so glad it's over.  I'm still running my 20 miles a week with one long run on the weekend.  I either run super early or wait until after 7:00 p.m. to run when it's not as hot.  I've been running with Dash more and she gets better every time.  I did have one fall with her though.  I don't know why guys think they have to honk or yell at us while we run.  Some car honked right when they went by us and spooked Dash causing her to cross in front of me and me diving over her.  I scraped my knees and got up super fast, so embarrassed and kept running.  It wasn't her fault and she just wanted to lick me when I got up.  She's getting so big and so smart!  I'm having a great time with her and can't wait to run longer than her current 4 miles.

I also registered for my fall marathon run.  I'm going to run the Rock n' Roll Las Vagas Marathon!!  The only thing I'm worried about is that it's an evening marathon because we will be running on the strip with all the crazy lights at night! Sounds fun, but I've never ran a full marathon at night before!!  Not even sure how to train for that.  I mean, what do I eat all day?  I'm so used to running first thing in the morning, eating a light breakfast and now I'll be running with a lot of food in my stomach from all day?!  I'm going to start doing some long distance run in the evenings just to get my body used to it.  I can already tell you that it's not going to be a run to PR.  It will be one to just finish and have fun with.  Sometimes I have GI issues running in the evenings, so need to figure out the nutrition part of it.  I also plan to run in my new minimal shoes to see how I do.  I've been running 3-5 miles on them and my feet sometimes hurt from it.  So, I have to take it back a notch until my feet get used to running with them.

Hard to believe this month is almost over!  Summer is flying by fast!  Next month is vacation time for us and can't wait to get away from Texas heat!