WRCE Pint Night Monday and Tuesday Strength Run

Monday evening Fleet Feet was hosting their monthly Pint Night Run, which has become the agenda planning run for the Wurst Running Club Ever.  My running plan had an easy 8 mile run scheduled, so I tried to do 5 miles to Fleet Feet then do 3 miles with the WRCE. I messed up my planning somewhere and ended up doing a bit over 9. At least I didn't go too fast (TWSS).

The conversation contents of the evening are for attendees only (why didn't you join us?). But here are a few photos taken by the famous Pete (few more pending release):

I failed to back my thing up, sorry

Edit: Thanks for the photo Pete:

I had to get my WRCE approved rear shot

That is a beer, and Erin given jazz hands in the back

I was starving by the time we got to the bar, as I usually eat dinner between 5-6pm, and it was now 8pm.  I knew that this later dinner was going to cause an issue for this morning's run, so I will at least enjoy it.  I had a cider beer with fish and chips.

I get to bed around 10:15am, and saw I was barely going to get 5 hours of sleep tonight with my alarm set for 3:40am. Oh well!

Beep beep! time to get up. Wasn't sure how much my legs had in them after finishing my last run only 9 hours ago. At least I am not as groggy as I thought I would be. I got to drinking my coffee, did my business, and was out at about 4:15am.  I met up with Erin (not the above captioned Erin) and we did some of our warm up miles together.

I had a strength run planned for today. 2 mile warm up, 6 x 1 mile intervals at 10 seconds slower than marathon pace, .25 mile jogs between, and then a 1.5 mile cool down.

I did them pretty well, but as I kinda of expected, around mile 5 I started feeling a bio alarm turning on. As I looped back, I felt the alarm go off fully in the middle of an interval and slowed down and paused my GPS as I walked to the bathroom on Belmont.  Knowing that bathroom is open has been a real mental live saver.  Oddly enough, there was a guy using it at 5:15am, what are the chances? I thought about using the ladies bathroom, but that would be mean.  There were some portapotties outside left from the Air and Water show, but who wants to use that? I waited about 2 minutes and the restroom was free.

Much better now.

Start GPS again and get back on my run. I felt rather cool now after about a 5 minute break and the sweat giving me a chill.  After the next mile I felt fine again.

You can see in my red splits 3 and 4 where my bio alerts started to set in. #5 was getting back into the swing of things, but was closer to what it should be, and 6 was nice.

In the last mile jogging home, I felt this sudden wave of prickling all over my body. I freaked thinking something was going on with me, but then I realized.. gnats.

I've complained about gnats before, but holy ****.  This was a new level.  A FOG of gnats from my feet to my head.  Everyone was trying to wave them out of their face, coughing, and had faces of horror. This lasted for about 2 blocks and it was HORRIBLE.

Last note - I won't be getting you any more sunrise photos as the sunrise is coming up well after 6am and I finish my runs before then. Sad right? I tried to take a photo of the full moon, but my phone photos were getting washed out by the street lights.  I'll see what I can do tomorrow about it.

Have a great day everyone!

Physical Therapy for me today, excited to get some massages on my leg!