I was quite lazy/bad last week and skipped my runs on Monday, Thursday, and Friday. No good excuse.
Saturday: 12 miles on the schedule, I did my regular morning long run routine (up early, bagel + PB, coffee, 5 hour energy, poop) but still felt like garbage for the first 4-5 miles of the run. I was having trouble breathing and finding my groove. I was still running decently, but felt pretty terrible. I finally settled in after I stopped for a minute to pee and just concentrated on running easy after I got going again. After 8 or so miles, I realized that I had misjudged my distances and would get home at about 12.5 miles. I also realized that I had been hitting pretty consistent 8:30-8:40 miles so if I pushed it a little, I could PR a half. So I did
Hit a 1:52:00 half, and that was including 2 pee breaks and stopping for traffic a couple times. That's a 1:38 PR on a run where I felt slow and crummy for almost the first hour.
Last night I just did 6 after Sammy went to bed. I badly misjudged how close we were to sunset and ran the last couple miles in the dark. Finally starting to get a little more used to the heat + humidity