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Thanks to Greg (who is currently beating my by alot in our challenge) I found out that I can do alot more with Nike+ than I had. Things like actually make my profile public and sharing of challenges.

I am going to be adding both to the sidebar of this blog, so everyone can keep better track of me getting my butt kicked.

I better get running and catch up just a little. But that leads me to why…
Once again running has taken a back seat, my schedule for this week has me doing some hours that I would never work and really taking its toll on my current state due to lack of sleep. I am working 8:30-11:30am, taking a class from 2:00-4:30pm and then working again from 10pm-2am. And when I have some slow time or during my “lunch time” break I am blogging.

I cannot really complain as I picked these hours but the 10-2 is really hurting me, I would normally never work then but with having to take another certification class I did not want to lose any hours and that means take some when I could get them, unfortunately that is when they were available.

Today is Tuesday and I am waiting for both my wife to arrive home and also for it to stop thundering and then will go for a run. It will most likely be pretty short but at least it will be something. I will have to get some extra sleep Friday night into Saturday morning and then go for a nice long run to celebrate a rough week.

I had fun with my evening run the other night and planned to go running about the same time today. But around 5:00 it got so dark and windy I thought I was going to have to not go running because of foul (lightning) weather. Then around 5:30 the clouds went away and we got this nice cool breeze, with VERY little humidity. I really appreciate when that happens during the summer and took advantage on a 6 mile run, at under an 8 minute per mile pace. Mile 1 & 2 were normal and then from 3 on they got better and better. If I did not have my wife and daughter at home waiting to eat dinner I could have easily gone a lot more.

My pace was just about the same as yesterday’s run but I felt much better at the end. There was not any drop off toward the end. Its amazing how the humidity hurts you. This run was done at about 7:30pm, so it was much nicer out. Strange to run at that time of day, normally I run at around noon and am used to seeing what is going on that time of day. Almost like a whole new world in the evening.

First day of the run challenge. A decent run today and although its VERY humid out I think I am starting to get used to it. I dropped off a bit at the end because I was getting a bit tired, but I feel its getting better each day, the high humidity is making me keep a slower but steady pace which is something I wanted to work on anyway.

Typical run, nothing special.

So a challenge has been made, and let’s just say I hate to lose. I better get my running to be more consistent or I will end up in 2nd. Either way its a fun challenge and it will help keep me motivated through the next month.

A simple challenge, 30 days (starting June 10th) to see who can run the most miles. This should be fun!

A “normal” run for me, what is quickly becoming my standard 4 mile loop. It is getting real hot here. I know I have said that a few times before, but it seems to be getting hotter and hotter every day. Well maybe not as much the heat but the humidity is getting worse. Just some time to get used to it again, nothing abnormal for this time of year. I may complain about the humidity this time of year but I love Florida and would not leave.

Kind of up and down run, the “hotness” was getting to me a bit.