Week 9: Eight miles

30:30 second run/walk ratio
2:22:02 hours
8.89 miles

10 min warmup run
4 acceleration gliders
10x 800m intervals
10 min cooldown run

15.5 minute miles

Well, the history says 16.0 minute miles, but I'm sure the app said 15.5 minute miles when I finished, so I'm going with that.

I had a good run today! I actually felt good today, got out there and ran with no problems, kept up a good pace and still felt good when I was done. The weather was just about perfect, partly cloudy with a slight breeze, temperature around 55 F. I wore long leggings and a short-sleeved tee-shirt — wasn't sure if it would be too cold, but mostly it wasn't. I lucked out and avoided the rain, which started to splash on my windshield as I was driving home. I got started a little after 10 AM and finished sometime after noon.

I didn't want to eat much before I left because I didn't want to mess up my stomach again. So I only had a cup of coffee and a drink of soy milk. I ate one GU at 4 miles and that was plenty. 

I started thinking about what could be causing the tiredness and weakness I often feel, if it's not my nutrition, and I remembered that a couple of years ago I was taking my blood pressure and finding that it would drop about 10 – 20 points down from normal on the days I was feeling really weak. So I borrowed my mom's blood pressure cuff and started measuring it again. Yesterday, I woke up feeling week and draggy and my BP was 90/50. Today I felt much better, and my BP was 98/60. I don't know what makes my blood pressure get so low, but I need to figure out a way to get it back up when it does that. Maybe I need to start drinking Gatorade or coconut water or just eating salt. I already put salt on just about everything I eat, but apparently it's not enough.