Notes
Felt very out of it from the moment I woke up today. Still a little congested, mostly my nose and chest. Had a very hard time making it out the door, started 90 minutes later than I wanted. Drove past one of my usual turns on the drive to this trail and didn't know it until all of a sudden I realized I was at an unfamiliar intersection. On the run, went to stop my watch at a traffic light at the mile 3 marker and it fell apart just from me hitting the button. What I figured I'd do was run the 3 miles back to the car, do surgery on my watch and head back out again. Well, there was just a littany of crap that happened back at the car that convinced me I was just not supposed to be out here right now. This time, both sides of the watch band came off. As soon as I got one end attached, the other would come off. Took about 20 minutes to get both sides on, during which time I also knocked over my fuel bottle and spilled it, lost the covering to one of my earphones, and on and on. I finally get everything straight, go back to the trailhead, hit the button to restart my watch.. and there it goes again. ALRIGHT, THAT'S IT. I GIVE. I figured something was trying to tell me to stop and decided it just wasn't worth risking a setback in this cold if I pushed it. I cut a couple of my other runs short this week and would really like to be back to normal starting tomorrow. I have the 20k coming up on Saturday and 10k on Labor Day.
The last 3 splits are off here, but I don't know by how much. My watch was in the zippered pocket in the back of my shirt, along with my phone, a gel and the watch band. Apparently that's not conducive to good signals.
ETA-this may read like I junked my long run because I wouldn't have my watch. Just wanted to clarify that's not the case. The out of it feeling I had all day felt like a touch of veritgo/motion sickness that I've experienced in the past. There were times during the run, as short as it was, that it effected me. The bouncing motion of running would be very exaggerated visually. It was that feeling, combined with everything else, that convinced me to pack it in for the day. This was a very tough decision for me and one I'm still upset about & struggling with the next morning.