Some good news & bad news today. First the bad... Angela complained of being sick to her stomach last night. Things didn't get any better over night, and she's all into being sick today. We're not sure what it is or how she got it, but its safe to say she didn't run today :-| I'll be keeping a pretty close eye on her... Get well soon baby!
As for the good news, I finished 10miles today! That's almost 4 miles farther than I've ever gone before! I ran a 10k (6.2miles) something like 20 years ago, and that was a huge acomplishment for me at that time. I've never run anything close to that until the training here recently. Knowing that, I went into today with the single goal of finishing... I didn't care what my time was or how much I walked... I just wanted to finish. I was concerned at first because the first 4 miles were tough! I walked a bunch of times. I had a power bar at 4 miles, and the next 4 were much better ;-) I don't think I ever ran more than a mile at a time, but my walks were short. The end result was, I FINISHED... mission accomplished! As a side note, the neato watch said I burned almost 1200 calories (yikes!) Total time today 1 hour 55 minutes 17 seconds! (11:32mile) Never did I ever think I'd be running/walking fast for that long... just wasn't an option a couple months ago! Weird!!!
Sunday, November 14, 2010
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I tried to post this morning, hopefully I have not posted the same thing twice today.
Wow, that is a good time. Your runs must be fast. I am amazed that you can stop and walk and then start back running. If I stop and tie my shoes I lose the will to run and also the will to live. That is why I am trying not to walk. But it is working for you. Keep it up, we are ready, remember the last mile is almost all down hill.
Yeah... there's no way I could run that whole thing! So I don't even try. Angela likes my term for it... I call it "strategic walking". I just plan on it. If I ran until I HAD to walk I'd lose motivation quick. I look at it more as conserving my energy. As far as the time, have you noticed our schedule is a week behind yours now? We pushed it back during the whole change in goals thing. I only ran 10mi this week (wheras you did 11mi) You kicked my butt at 10miles!
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