Less than Fun Run

I woke up late this morning for my 6am run. Which under normal circumstances would have just been annoying but since I was meeting 4 people it was rude too.

After throwing on clothes and my Garmin and my wrist water bottle, Hawksley and I were out the door.

Despite being 110 pounds, Hawksley is only 7 months old and still in training. I feel bad in saying that recently I have chosen to leave him home more often than not when I go running because I haven't wanted to be bothered with the frustration of a training walk. Hawksley is the best behaved dog in the world! (In addition to being the handsomest!) Here he is at the dog park at my apartment...with his favorite thing...a stick in his mouth :-)

But when I start running (which is not a run for him...when I'm running he is walking quickly), he goes bonkers!

He starts jumping backwards and biting the leash. This only lasts about a minute but it still hurts my shoulder and is very annoying! Once he calms down its much better and he is back his good old self. We are working with a trainer and I realize it goes much better if I get his energy out before my run.

First we do a training walk to the dog park and then I let him run around there. Then we go for a run. Whew!  A lot to do in the morning but we both feel great after and the whole day is so much better!

I wish I could say today was a great run but it wasn't. I woke up with my hip bothering me. Right off the bat, Hawksley drops a deuce.  When I bagged it up, it got on my thumb! Ew!

Then my ankle started bugging me. I was going to do a short slow run. Then Hawksley went #2 again. (Because, oh, another fun fact? My running gets him so excited he poops a lot. Loose ones. During my run....so I'm stopping and bagging poops that look like they were dropped from pterodactyls periodically during my run...are you hating me less and less for leaving him home yet?) As I cleaned it up it got on my wrist water-bottle. Ick!

That's when I decided we were done. We did a training walk back to the apartment. Was more walking and stopping than running for sure!

Oh well. I try not to get upset about a bad run.....cuz there's always another one around the corner. I'm running tomorrow morning too. Hope it goes better.

My next running class session is starting soon! I signed up for No Boundaries 2.0 at my local Fleet Fleet running store. I'm scared and excited at the same time!