And so it begins.

Marathon training is back in full effect.

9 miles this past Saturday to be exact. I struggled some. And I felt like I was starting all over again. When I checked Dailymile I saw that the last time I ran this far was the Glass City Half Marathon back in April!

I met Christie at the Metroparks a little before 7, which I thought would give us plenty of time to beat the heat. And it did, but we couldn’t beat the humidity.

Pre-run photo:

Post-run photo:

Check out the change in color in our shirts. We were soaked head to toe (plus pink cheeks and flushed skin)!

You can really tell in my skirt here:

It was literally flapping like I had just jumped in a pool. #sexy

And this may be too much information, but the sweat was dripping down my forearms from my elbows, to my pinky, and just dripping off my pinky. Like a waterfall. Grossness.

The humidity seriously kills me. More than I like to admit. So this is how it went down:

• 4 miles non stop
• water break
• 2 miles
• water break
• 1 mile
• water break
• 1 mile
• water break

Ha. We were ready to be done come mile 8. So we both headed home and I conned this guy into riding his bike with me for one more mile:

(from soccer camp last week!)

So I got it done. They weren’t as fast as I would have liked, but I’ll take what I can get in the humidity. I better just suck it up already, though, because I’m pretty sure I have a long 3 months of this ahead of me.

Is it humid where you are?? The weather is so weird here, you never know what you’re going to get!