hot hot hot!

I was recently asked about my thoughts on how running in the summer would play out. I purposely chose to run my half-marathon in September so that I could use my summertime to train, but apparently, when I made that decision, I hadn't remembered that summer was, in fact, the warmest season here in the US. I ran this morning before work and it was HOT. Just another milestone, I guess, but if you can't run at 6AM, when can you run!? Since I didn't get to run with my running buddy this week, here is a picture for her (and everyone else) of what I look like lately following a run:

In other news, I have a 4.5 mile run planned for this Saturday. Despite my warm weather concerns (although who are we kidding..my run will be sadly likely to take place in the early AM hours...womp), I am really looking forward to it! Part of it is uncharted territories, and we saw how well that worked out last weekend....but I am optimistic! I'm slowly, but surely making my way up in distance. I've been running about 2.5 miles 2x during the week, and then increasing my weekend run slightly each weekend. It's funny how many things related-to-but-not-about-running I can manage to write about. Sometimes I like to throw some fast facts out there.