17 Miles on the W&OD... and a vacation report.

Handan and I returned last night from a week's vacation at the wonderful Iberostar Grand Hotel Paraiso in Cancun, Mexico.  If you ever want to get away from it all and be pampered 24x7 this is the place.  We loved it there and despite the great food and drink, we came back pretty much the same weight as when we left.  Of course we exercised nearly every day we were there!

While in Cancun I tried two outdoor runs.  On Sunday, July 24th I ran 3 miles with Handan and then another 3 by myself.  The next day (Monday) I ran 6 miles outside by myself.  Both runs were hard because of the very high humidity (it is tropical after all) and after the run on Monday I decided to do the remainder of my running indoors on the treadmill.  I think I ran three times indoors... runs of 5 or 6 miles.

Today (my first full day back) I headed out to the W&OD trail at 5:45am for a nice long welcome-back-to-training run.  I wanted to do at least 16 miles, but was hoping for 18.  I ended up splitting the difference and running a pretty steady 17 miles.  I had two GUs during the run and drank two bottles of low-cal Gatorade during the run.  Before the run I had a ClifBar and a Mango Juice (from Costco).

Now I feel like I'm back in the training groove and will have my next run on Tuesday.

 

Sunday in Cancun

Monday in Cancun

 

Working out on vacation...