5am

This week, I realized how ridiculously time-consuming my goal of running a marathon, even a half-marathon, is. It takes me more than an hour to jog about seven miles (the distance I'm up to so far), at least another half hour to do some strength training, and then about another ten minutes to stretch. In total, it takes me about two hours. I only have the time to do the full routine on the weekends, though I need to increase my distance.

On the weekdays, I run only about three to five miles each morning because that's usually all I have time for. But, doing so few miles during the week isn't helping me increase the distance I can run. So, I decided that I need to wake up even earlier. I set the alarm for 5:15am, half an hour earlier than usual, for Monday and Tuesday this week. Both days, I woke up with the alarm but lied in bed until about 5:45, when I finally got up and out the door. And, today, I switched the 5:15am alarm to 7:04am when it went off. I was so tired. I couldn't even force myself up later to run. I'm going to try to run when I get off work; it'll be my first afternoon run.