1st Birthday & 1/2 Marathon Training - Day 13

This weekend was the party for my niece's 1st birthday. Of course, a lot of family was in town and it was great to see everyone. The old niece enjoyed all the attention and of course all the gifts as well :-) It was fun seeing her, and she's always a blast! Happy Birthday Kailyn!

As Sunday began, it was becoming apparent a run wasn't going to happen before church... so, we waited until afterwards. I wished I would've made myself go earlier :-/ By the time we got around to making the run it was 90+ degrees outside... yuck! Since we were doing our first 2 mile run today it was a new route. Things were going well up until about a mile and a quarter. Angela fell back a bit, and then my knee started burning some. We both dropped to a walk for a short bit and then picked it back up (knee was fine after the walk, thank goodness!) All in all we dropped to a walk 3 times, each time for about an 1/8th of a mile. The end result was just shy of 22 min for the 2 miles... off of my goal of a 10min mile, but it didn't surprise me. Just have to keep at it... smartly of course :-)

Oh wow... just looked at the schedule... no more 1.0 mile runs. Huh... :-/