I’m tired, sweaty and smell pretty bad right now. But I have a cup of coffee in front of me and am sitting comfortably in my lovely air conditioned apartment, so life is pretty good. About an hour ago, I didn’t have such a positive outlook. We did one 5 mile loop of Prospect Park and then one full loop to total 8.4 miles. Damn it was hot and it’s only May. I can’t wait until August.
I am categorizing myself as a “junior advanced”. I’ve taken up running with the advanced group with Team in Training to push myself a bit and also because I think there is a slight chance there is some faulty wiring in my brain. I mean, I’m not a real runner, at least I didn’t used to be. I think I might becoming one though. Today they gave us the option to run the 8.4 distance or the 10 miles, which would have been two 5 mile loops. I honestly left my house this morning with every intention to run the 10. The longest distance I had done up to this point in the training was 7. Jumping to 10 is a bit ambitious, but I thought I would give it a go. Needless to say, the heat and my asthma got the better of me. It’s ok though, I’m ok with my decision to run the shorter distance. Like they say, this is training for a marathon, not a 5k.
My pace was a bit slower today but I am chalking that up to the heat. I ran just over a 10 minute mile pace which is ok. My goal on game day is to run a 10 minute mile the entire marathon. Again, maybe a bit ambitious, but I won’t accept anything less.
I also should mention that I have not been taking my iPod with me on these group runs for two reasons; I don’t want to be anti-social and the iPod I have is 2 years old and a wee bit bulky. I was hoping to have someone to run with the entire time today, but after about 2.5 miles the group I was running with broke off and picked up their pace. So I ran the last 6 miles on my own with no music!!! I think I might get one of the little iPod shuffles, because who knows, if I had Justin Timberlake egging me on, maybe I would have run the 10.
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