I am not a morning runner

I've been juggling my schedule all around to stick to my training program. If I had my choice I would run in the late afternoon all of the time. However, between ghastly weather (hot, humid, and thunderstorms), picking up kids from summer camp, travel, birthday parties and various other random things, I've had to take my workouts when I can get them. Yesterday I did my 7 mile run at 8:30am. On the plus side it was still relatively cool outside, much of the run was in the shade, and I was done with my exercise for the day before 10am. The bad part is that I am not a morning runner. To be more accurate, I'm not a morning person period. It was a very slow run - far slower than it should have been, even for being a long run. And to top it all off, there was major construction being done on one of the roads I use. It's part of a loop so when I realized that the "road closed" sign was serious (the entire road plus both sidewalks were being dug up by no less than 3 large bulldozers) I thought "No problem, I'll just reverse my loop and do as much as I can before I'm forced to turn around". Well, being that my brain wasn't working so well since a) I wasn't awake yet and b) most of the oxygen was being shuttled to my muscles rather than my brain there was a flaw in this plan that I didn't realize until too late. You see, this loop includes a rather sizable hill, a hill that I have no particular love for. With my adjusted route I ended up doing the stupid hill twice. {insert image of Karen pounding head on desk here} Unfortunately I don't see how I can avoid running in the morning, especially for the long ones. I guess the best I can hope for is that the construction finishes up soon.