5.0 mi.

I had a short sleep today, awakened by the heat, some kids enjoying their summer break loudly in the parkway next to our building, and the pitter patter of Nicki and our friend, Emily, also enjoying summer in the next room. I had a tough time getting back to sleep because it’s just damn hard to sleep in the 5:00 pm heat of summer. I was somewhat relieved, then, to get a call from work at 9:30 letting me know that I would be “cancelled” for the night. (This is something they do when there aren’t enough patients in the hospital to support my wages, and my PTO bank suffers, though I still get paid. This week was abnormal because I had been cancelled earlier in the week already, so I decided to be relieved to get some extra sleep instead of anxious for my job security.)
I hadn’t planned to run today, but thought it would be good to do a decent run two consecutive days this week, take a day off, and then take a long run on Saturday when I have another day off. (It’s been tough for me to schedule runs around this weird night shift thing.) Since Emily and, by that time, also our friend Kristina were hanging out, I thought I’d bug out and let the girls be girls. I didn’t want to get in the way of their chit chat about boys, menstruating, and flatware themes. That’s what girls talk about. My friend Tommy told me that; he’s a fourth-grader.
It was a pleasant night for a run—ideal, probably. There was an intermittent gentle breeze at around 70° in the early evening.
I Initially planned to do a 4.2 mi. loop that I had done earlier in the week across the river in the Ravenswood/Ravenswood Manor area, but got the gumption to go a little further before turning around squarely in Albany Park at Kedzie and Montrose.
Had to focus on keeping my stride steady once deep into the run. I find that my form suffers a bit when tired—shortening my stride and accentuating my bow-leggedness—and puts strain on my knees and feet. It helps to keep that stride long and straight to maintain a solid posture. I hope this will help me avoid injury and avoid looking like I’m dying on the last miles of my runs.
Next run: Saturday, 7 miles.
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