Unmotivated...

I am terrible about updating. The summer program is wrapping up and lately, I've been somewhat unmotivated to get out and run. Part of it is the weather. I don't do well when it's too warm to run, and quite frankly, anything warmer than 60 degrees is a challenge for me. Which is precisely the reason I joined the summer program, so that I would keep going and not have any excuses to keep myself from doing it. I haven't learned to love running in the heat, but I have learned to prepare myself better.

The last few weeks have been amazing, weather-wise. Some people were complaining that it was unseasonably cool, but it was perfect to me. Highs during the day were low 80s and the lows were high 50s -- perfect running weather. I was motivated to get up and run before work because I'd rather run in the morning when it's cooler than in the afternoon/evening when it's warmer.

My sleep schedule has been so off the last couple of weeks though. I've been barely getting 6 hours of sleep, averaging more like 5. So the lack of sleep hasn't been helping. And the weather was warm last week, so I haven't run outside at all. I've been doing the elliptical indoors to do the workouts, but I get bored inside. This is why doing the gym thing never worked out for me (no pun intended), I just eventually get bored doing the same repetitive motions, looking at the same thing for long periods of time.

There is a heat advisory starting Sunday ("heat index readings to reach the low to mid 90s on Sunday...and around 100 on Monday and Tuesday"). Gonna have to buck up and deal with indoor workouts for the next week.

In other news, I got new shoes last week.

Still getting used to them, but so far so good. Also, got a bunch of new socks from the niece and nephew! Which was great since my feet have changed a bit since starting the program and the socks I got before are now too big.

I signed up for the fall program as well. I'm going to be in the running group, which still blows my mind. I'm actually running-running now, can you believe it? I'm going to see if I can run the entire 5K for my goal race in two weeks.

Also, I signed up for two races in October as well. So, despite my lack of motivation lately, I know I've got races coming up. Hoping this fall brings my running groove back...