3.34 miles--Laura's birthday!

Today is my oldest daughter's 25th birthday!  Hard to believe that she is a quarter of a century old already!  Wow.  That sure makes me feel a little older.  Time sure does fly.  I can remember holding her in the hospital and thinking, "Wow, I'm going to be a parent forever!"  It didn't sink in until I held her that I would forever be a mom.  Now she is a mom herself with her own little bundle of joy.  
But, back to running.  I got out and didn't go much farther than three miles, but at least I ran.  My pace was pretty slow.  It was very muggy and I just wanted to log some miles.  I didn't work on speed or long distance.  Just ran. 

5.04 miles~~HOT, HOT, HOT

We are in Mississippi visiting family.  I grew up in Picayune, MS (a long time ago) and somehow managed to survive the heat and humidity.  Now that I live in VA, I don't think I am used to the heat and high humidity.  

Chris and I decided we needed to run and get out and move, so we headed out around 9:00 am.  It was unbelievably hot and humid.  I wanted to run to the gate entrance of Chris' Mom's neighborhood which was 5 miles.  I made it there ok, but as I was running back, the heat really got to me.  My lungs were aching and I struggled to walk at times in addition to struggling to run.  I didn't bring my inhaler (I usually don't, but I probably should start carrying it) and basically had to just walk the last mile back to the house.  Chris was worried about me and met me about 0.5 miles away.  

Running in the humidity is really hard.  I am so thankful that I don't have to deal with it daily.  Once I got inside and took my inhaler, drank water, and relaxed, I felt better.  
Just a subtle reminder that I have a disease that I need to monitor.