Planning ahead can work

I am not a morning person.  Far from it.  I like to sleep in and cuddle under the blankets.  Especially now that it's cold out and we are using the electric blanket and the heated mattress pad (our bedroom doesn't have heat).  It's really hard to get up.

But, last night I decided to do a little pre-planning.  I figured out what I wanted to wear to the archives today and ironed it.  I made my lunch and packed it.  I even got the coffee pot ready so all I had to do this morning was turn it on.  All of this in the hopes that I would get my butt out of bed and hit the treadmill for my Tuesday 30 minute run.

The alarm clock went off this morning and I turned it off.  Ugh.  Morning.  I had time.  I laid there and promptly fell back to sleep.  But, I woke up.  With 10 minutes to seven.  Enough time if I got right out of bed to get on the treadmill at 7:00 a.m. And I did.  I got up, put on my running clothes, and got on the treadmill and ran 30 minutes.  Holy!  I am so proud of myself.  Then, I did my core work (sit-ups, push ups, and bicycle legs).  Wow.  I feel so on top of things today!

All that's left on the exercise agenda today is a 60 minute walk, which I break up into thirds at the archives.  :-)

Still Not a Morning Person

For the past two and a half weeks, I've been getting up before work to run.  It's just a 30 minute run (which is what my plan says!), so I get up a tad bit early and run it before heading in.  I've never been a morning person.  I know exactly how long it takes for me to get ready in the morning (1 hour), if I shower (1 hour and 30 minutes), how long it takes to get to the highway (7 minutes), how long a walk it is to the archives once I park my car (10 minutes).  This is all due to a severe lack of love for mornings.  But, I've been proud of myself for getting up early and running before the archives on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

Well, today enforced the Chris is not a morning person persona.  LOL!  I have to be at the archives an hour early and I just couldn't get up at 5:15 a.m. to go for a run, shower, eat breakfast, and get ready.  I rolled right on over, re-set the alarm, and went back to bed.  So, I apparently have hit my threshold for early morning runs.  I can do them if I go into the archives at 10:00 a.m., but a 9:00 a.m. morning means no morning run.  Good to know.

So, that means I have a 30 minute run tonight when I get home from work.  Here's hoping I can do it!

UPDATE: Got home and went for my run.  Wasn't thinking it was a good one.  Felt like I was running through mud.  But when it was all said and done, I got 2.15 miles in 30 minutes (.03 miles short of Tuesday's run).  Not bad really.