This training season has been full of challenges: a bird pecking my head (more days than one), waves crashing on me, oppressive heat, training while traveling, etc.
Today was such a LOVELY run! It was overcast, which I don't normally love, but much needed with the heat and sun beating down on me that's been the norm this summer. It wasn't 90+ degrees either!
The heat's been especially hard to train in this season. It slows me down and challenges me to listen to my body. Usually I just push though things, but when I start getting goosebumps when it's so hot, that's a bad sign. And I have to listen to that. It's hard.
Today I couldn't have been happier to get in my 8 mile run. Even with the waves crashing on me. Generally, I try to avoid the waves, darting out of the way, etc. Today I just let them crash on me and pound through it. It was kind-of fun. There aren't waves when it's excessively hot. Maybe that's why I was enjoying them so much.
I was happy to see the Share the Shore folks out spray painting signs on the path like "Speak Up On your Left" and "Shift Right When Slow or Stopping".
Then I saw a biker who had an accident and their face was bleeding.
This is what I usually do when I see an accident. If I am one of the first few people, I stop to see if I can help in any way. However, if there are already a few people around, I keep going. I figure they don't need a million people grouping around them. I don't know, that's what I would like. I heard (and saw) an ambulance on it's way to the biker as I kept going. So that made me feel better.
I can only hope this Share the Shore campaign with reduce the number of accidents on the path and make people more aware!
Although, judging by what I observed this afternoon it hadn't made a difference yet :(. And I no longer can excuse them by thinking, 'they just don't know.' because they're walking over it. Come on people! Let's be considerate!
Favorite scene of the morning. A young mom running along pushing her child in a stroller and when I looked in the stoller (you never know if it's a dog or child) the kid was leaning back with his/her hands relaxing behind their head. It was adorable. As their mom trucked along, the kid couldn't have been more comfortable.
And the weather TODAY is what summer in Chicago is supposed to feel like. Enough of this 100º stuff. (The temp today is actually the average temp, I didn't just make that up.)
Today was such a LOVELY run! It was overcast, which I don't normally love, but much needed with the heat and sun beating down on me that's been the norm this summer. It wasn't 90+ degrees either!
The heat's been especially hard to train in this season. It slows me down and challenges me to listen to my body. Usually I just push though things, but when I start getting goosebumps when it's so hot, that's a bad sign. And I have to listen to that. It's hard.
Today I couldn't have been happier to get in my 8 mile run. Even with the waves crashing on me. Generally, I try to avoid the waves, darting out of the way, etc. Today I just let them crash on me and pound through it. It was kind-of fun. There aren't waves when it's excessively hot. Maybe that's why I was enjoying them so much.
I was happy to see the Share the Shore folks out spray painting signs on the path like "Speak Up On your Left" and "Shift Right When Slow or Stopping".
Then I saw a biker who had an accident and their face was bleeding.
This is what I usually do when I see an accident. If I am one of the first few people, I stop to see if I can help in any way. However, if there are already a few people around, I keep going. I figure they don't need a million people grouping around them. I don't know, that's what I would like. I heard (and saw) an ambulance on it's way to the biker as I kept going. So that made me feel better.
I can only hope this Share the Shore campaign with reduce the number of accidents on the path and make people more aware!
Although, judging by what I observed this afternoon it hadn't made a difference yet :(. And I no longer can excuse them by thinking, 'they just don't know.' because they're walking over it. Come on people! Let's be considerate!
Favorite scene of the morning. A young mom running along pushing her child in a stroller and when I looked in the stoller (you never know if it's a dog or child) the kid was leaning back with his/her hands relaxing behind their head. It was adorable. As their mom trucked along, the kid couldn't have been more comfortable.
And the weather TODAY is what summer in Chicago is supposed to feel like. Enough of this 100º stuff. (The temp today is actually the average temp, I didn't just make that up.)
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