Running when you don't feel like it!

Sunday, I spent the afternoon with my oldest son at his Crawfish cookout. It was really good but man, that sodium is crazy! I knew it would affect me the next day which it really did. We are having rain this week when I need to be getting a 6 mile run so I had to either run it when I felt very thick or run it in the rain. I decided to run it on Monday and get it out of the way.
I don't know how many times I told myself I did not want to run today. I think I told my family members a few times too because I really didn't want to run. I just wasn't feel really great. So, I decided just to go and just walk as much as I have to just to get it done. This was going to be a lonely run because Annie had a freak accident with the Kurgo seat belt tether and it hurt her leg. She all better now but no running or walking for her for a few days.
It was slow to start and I had to walk so much, it felt a lot harder physically than my heart rate was showing. It was even hard to breath at times but I just kept going.  made it a loop back by the house so I could drop off my jacket and stuff I didn't need any more. Then headed back out for the rest of the miles. I was now running longer before walk breaks and my heart rate wasn't as bad. I was having negative splits on some of the miles.
I told myself, I really needed to get this run in because I might feel like this on the 50k later this year and I will still have to run. This was a good training run for that reason. I was happy that I made myself get out there and get it done. It was a really pretty day to get out to run.