should've known.

should've known that in trying to avoid one big hill, the course i chose instead today gave me 2 GIANT hills.
should've known not to run somewhere i had never even driven before, thus the 2 GIANT hills.
should've known that running between 7:30 and 8:30 passing 4 schools on the way would guarantee me some run-ins with annoying teenagers who won't get out of the way.
should've known that owey would fall asleep for about 20 min and then think he didn't need a nap after we got home.
should've known that it was a bad idea to run DOWN that GIANT hill knowing i would have to run back UP it on the way back.
should've known that if i don't pass any runners along the way, it is most likely because no one else dares to run that way.
should've known that my time would be not exactly impressive (but still not terrible)- 60 min for 5 miles.

despite all that, here are some things i actually did right this morning:
wore my water belt - good thing!
brought along some gu just in case - very good thing!
ran on the shady side of the street both ways
ran against traffic when pushing up the GIANT hill so cars were watching my grimacing face instead of my big ol' behind.
ran up that hill with buns burning to the sound of "honkey tonk badonkadonk" - now that is what i call motivation!
walked part of the way on the 2 steep hills to conserve energy and then pushed it to the top.
the last mile was all downhill - the best way to finish if you ask me!

well, hope you all have a great weekend. i will try to post on saturday to fill you in on what i'm up to...