Weekend roundup: perspective on late morning runners

Saturday:
BIKE 1:40 min ride indoors, 26 ish miles
RUN 1:15 and 8 miles

Sunday
RUN 44 mins and 5 miles
BIKE 60 mins and 16-17 miles, indoors

Sometimes I see late morning or early afternoon runners and I wonder, how can they run "so late" in the day? My favorite and preferred is to run first thing, before a meal, and in order to get on with everything else in the day.

Then this weekend happened, and on both days I ran later in the morning! Saturday I started with a bike ride indoors (some polar vortex thing made it 35F out there!), then a rest to refuel, then a sluggy run that really suffered. On Sunday my plans to run with TV were changed around 930, I waited for some rain to pass, waited more for some rain, and didn't run until around noon! It all works out in the end, but while running I kept thinking about how this gives me more insight into why other runners are running later in the morning. They of course didn't all sleep in!

Saturday's ride was indoors, did drills and variable gear sets before doing a 8' 75%, 2' rest, 2' 84%, 8' rest set 2.5 times. When I got done I was so mentally wiped that I paused to eat something. Then paused to digest, maybe an hour later I ran? Went to TGP and back with extra and it just suffered. No energy, no mental drive, kept finding reasons to pause, but I did it. And in the end I didn't stop or walk all that much really. Just seemed like that's all I wanted to to.

Sunday's CCP run with TV changed after his Saturday race on Greenrock. And Sugar was looking sick -- eating grass, low appetite, etc -- so we canceled that. No need to wear him out on a dog that needs to rest! But then rain was forecasted, so I waited and kept on with my cookup. This run was way better than Saturday'! Enjoyed it, ran to CHP and back, walked the dog, then did the ride. Didn't finish until 4pm or so, seems like a waste of a day!

Every thing felt good, the rib I would say is 90+% healed, I barely noticed it. Yay!

And Sunday was 300 days on SCD diet. What a change the last 300 days have made.