Yesterday was a nice run. The weather was warmer, and humid. I had made it out the door before 5am, in fact I was awake before my husband. The night before I managed to restub my toe on my right foot. I don't know why I manage to keep jamming the same toe. I was worried about running because it hurt so bad when I woke up, but my shoes were tight enough that as soon as I laced them up, the pain seemed to diminish.
I started my walk, knowing how long I needed to run. I figured about where I would turn around at. That knowledge came in helpful, when the place that I usually have to end the warm up walk passed and my app didn't say anything. I pulled the phone out of my pocket and the notification said start jogging, and the time was listed as now. So, the audio was not going to play today. So, I ran until I got to the street I have never managed to make it before, turned around and about the place I usually start my cool down, I started walking. As I did so, I pulled out my phone and discovered that I timed that pretty much perfectly, because it declared that now was the time to start my cool down. So, when I am finished with the app, I know that I will not have a problem making it back to home in time without an app timing me.
As I was running away from home, I saw a big rig just barreling down the street that intersects the one I run on. That was enough for me to know I will never run down that street, and might not even dare to cross it. This guy was in a hurry.
On the way back home I was running toward one of the most beautiful sunrises I've ever seen. I have to say, working out in the mornings, and especially running, has made me appreciate sunrises more.
I remember the first time I saw a sunrise. If I remember correctly, I woke up to see the sunrise that day. I was a teenager, and of course, I never woke early. But I was a bookworm, and had read so many books about how gorgeous sunrises were, that I wanted to see them. I have always loved sunsets, and sunrises were always written as more spectacular. Something people climb mountains at 3am to see. So, I got up early one summer day to see the sunrise. And yes, I would have woken up before the sunrise through the winter and such for school. But what kid really looks out the window before school? They're too busy denying that it's not the weekend. Anyway, I woke up waited for the sunrise, and was completely disappointed.
Now, at the time, I didn't think about the fact that you don't always get a spectacular sunset. Sometimes there just aren't enough clouds in the sky, or the conditions aren't perfect to get all the purples and pinks. So I didn't think about that going along with sunrises. I just remember that it was like the sky was a washed out yellow, that faded into blue. I then declared mornings a complete wash, and other then school or work, didn't worry about them.
Ah, how much has changed since then.
Sadly, my great run, and my great yoga stretch afterwards, was ruined by a headache on top of a headache. Not kidding. Got the migraine aura. Took a pain killer to beat the rush of headache before it hit me. The aura faded to a throb. Then about 15 minutes later, a new aura came along, followed by a mad headache that really wasn't helped by the fact that I hadn't eaten anything yet, so the alieve was sitting in an empty stomach making me feel nauseous. Ugh, I was kicking myself for not forcing more water down when I first came in. I thought I was fine. Of course, I'm not completely sure it's dehydration, so who really knows what the headache thing is about, but it sucks.
Hopefully I can avoid that after my run tomorrow. Speaking of, I had better get to bed. At this rate I won't wake up in time to run.
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