Bahhaa. I know EXACTLY what you mean. Love the pictures 😉

I’m the same way! With the afternoon thunderstorms in Orlando now I’ve taken to running around my block (oh, about 10 times in a row) so I’m never more than about a quarter mile from the house in case lightning strikes or I twist an ankle & have to army-crawl home. It’s not too boring either, I’m becoming well-acquainted with my neighbors’ decorating styles and getting lots of ideas on landscaping for our yard. Plus I’ve met a lot of the neighbors this way and it’s funny to wave multiple times to the same guy walking his dogs. It’s also good for pacing too (I can’t do a “10 minute mile” but I sure as hell can do a 2.5 minute quarter mile!).

I am 15 weeks pregnant and still trying to do some shorter runs as I feel up to it. I’ve tried to rework my route to include a rest stop! I feel like I have to use the restroom way more often even if I go right before I leave the house! It’s harder to keep up my pace this way but I figure it’s better than nothing!

haha! totally true! A couple of weeks ago, exactly halfway through my 4 miler, it started to thunder and lightning. When my husband asked me what I did, I said “um, ran!!!”

Murphy’s law of runners! It never fails that I have to use the bathroom at exactly the furthest point.

I have a 3/4 hell, which I suppose is a bit better since I’m a tad bit closer to home. Most of my runs are 4 miles with a longer one thrown in there each week. At mile 3 on every single run, regardless of where I am, I start to cramp/feel nauseous/need to pee, etc. I think this is mostly because I’m playing with eating prior to a run which I never use to do so I guess it takes until mile 3 for whatever I ate to begin to disagree with my system.

Want to know my worst “halfway through a run story”?

I was 5km into my regular 10km loop run around the river near me when a rogue bee flew into my mouth. I choked and coughed it out, only to feel it sting the back of my throat. It had stung my uvula – that little dangly thing at the back of your throat – not to be confused with a part of the female anatomy with similar letters.

I’m not allergic or anything and had no choice but to continue my run. I got back to my car, my uvula was getting bigger and I could see the black stinger in it. So I drove home, grabbed a flashlight and tweezers and yanked it out (which stretched the uvula out and despite my predicamant I still had a giggle). THEN, for the next few hours as the bee poison got into my system my uvula kept swelling until it was resting on my tongue. That little thing normally the size of your pinky tip was now the size of a large apricot. I could still breathe fine but swallowing and eating were very difficult!

I can laugh about it now… it was 3 years ago.

I can totally relate to this! My worst “Bermuda triangle” moment happened to me this past summer. I was running and when a torrential downpour happened and I was about 1.5 miles away from my car. I ended up sopping wet and huddled underneath a walnut tree with two other runners until the storm passed. After that, I made sure my route had plenty of quick stops for shelter around it!

When I was running at lunch time I did the downtown loop around the river. It was about 4 miles total. I liked it because I was forced to keep going, I couldn’t quit like I could on a treadmill because I had to get back to the office! I never feared the halfway mark.