W7W1

okay, i'm back.  i know it's been almost a week since i last ran.  i went in for a second interview for a company that creates training here in town.  though i'm not all the way through the interview process, they had a last minute request from a client and the guy that had been working on it was sick.  she asked me to step in this week.  since it was due on saturday morning, and i have no idea whether they will give me additional work, i tried to get in as many hours as possible between wednesday afternoon and saturday morning.  i haven't worked for 3.5 months and before that i was in europe for 5 weeks.  my financial situation was getting dire.  so i held off on the running.  of course i could have done it, but i didn't need any distractions, and the running would have been a distraction.  i thought i would go yesterday, but after two 'working until 5am' nights, i slept all day.

so i went with hazel.  i started out slower this time.  the first half i went about 5.5 on my watch (which is close to a 12 minute mile) and on the way back we went a little slower.  hazel wanted to go slower, which was probably good for me.  we did stop a few times for 30 seconds or less while hazel went to the bathroom, but outside of that i ran the whole way.  it wasn't easy and it wasn't agonizing.  i did get a stich in my side right at the end but was able to push through it.  i was glad when the 25 minutes were up.  since my 5k is on march 7th, i'm going to see if i can go 28 minutes on tuesday.  

Time: 45.38

Distance (??): 3.1

Average HR: 163

Max HR: 189

Calories: 569