Keeping running

Thursday,my last mid week running until our long run on Saturday... Since now the sun does not rise until 6:30 its almost impossible to run at my usual time of 5:30am in the forest preserve near my house. It's very dark out at that time so I had to switch my runnings to late afternoon, after work. I don't really enjoy running late afternoon because I don't have the same stamina and running any mileage is somehow more difficult. Anyway, we do what we get do right? yeah, here I go to meet Mark at 5pm for another run. Suposelly, this would be just a 5 mile tempo however since we did not run on Monday we decided to run 8 miles instead. What is an extra 3 miles right? well not really. An extra 3 miles makes a difference in a hot day. Yesterday was quite warm for September and very sunny so running that extra 3 miles was not that easy... but thanks God this is our "tapper" time so this will be our last long run during the week. We completed the 8 miles with an overal pace of 8:50 which is pretty good. Looking forward to take today off. No running, no cross training. Just go home after work and have a glass of wine before dinner. Tomorrow, Saturday will be another running day.