Week 7, Day 1

The Week 7, Day 1 regimen looks like this:

Brisk 5-minute warm-up walk
Jog for 25 minutes
(I added a 5-minute cool down on the end)

Weather: 82F, Windy
Route: 2.5 miles

Today's run sucked. There is just no way around it. There are some wild fires burning to the East of us, and when the smoke blows in it's nasty. I ran Week 6, Day 3 again on Friday and the fires were really burning then, but the wind had changed direction so we did not smell it so badly out this direction. Today the wind was blowing right at us, and even though the fires have died down some, the smoke still made my run very unpleasant. Even the warm-up walk felt unusually hard. My lungs and throat were burning the whole time! Add to that a right knee that was bothering me, and badly needing to pee about halfway through (despite using the restroom immediately before I walked out the door!) and it was all around not an enjoyable experience. But, I made it through. My pace sucked, but I made it through.

Week 7, Day 1: COMPLETE