So Eryn is going out of town this weekend and I suck at long runs by myself so we decided to allow ourselves a nice, relaxing weekend and got up at 6am to do our long run today. I honestly figured I'd do 5 miles and make up the other 4 later tonight before I go out.
Nope. Not quite.
We decided to run town because I've found (at least for me) that when I run in town I run farther because I have to get home so it's not like I can just quit - I have to finish. : ) Ways I trick my mind and body...
We decided to start on Harvard and work our way down to Utica. As we ran we started talking about adding some extra miles. I suggested going down Cherry Street (it has a huge hill) and then back up on 11th. We pushed and pushed and made that goal. Then Eryn realized we'd hit construction if we ran down to 11th so we took 14th back home - which meant we ran up the Cherry Street hill one street over. I know Eryn wasn't happy but I felt so good making it up that hill - knowing I was at least 5 miles in by then and not stopping. I had no issues climbing it and made it up with relative ease. We kept pushing through and made it back to my apartment in 1 hour and 13 minutes with 6.75 miles under our belt. We figured we might as well finish to 9 miles so we grabbed our keys, ids, etc and walked to the gym.
We did some intense stretching and then set to work - finishing the last 2.25 miles (or in Eryn's case - over 2.5 miles). I stopped at 8.5 miles total and walked the last 4 laps to hit my 9 miles. My knees were getting wobbly and my left foot was starting to hurt each time I hit the ground (time for new shoes??).
I still can't believe we did 9 miles today! When I checked my Nike+ I found that I cut 10 minutes off my run a few weeks ago and I only ran 7.61 then! I even set a new 10k PR on my phone. Pretty intense. It blows my mind to see that I ran over 1.5 hours!! Didn't seem like it was that long at all - maybe an hour at most.
I am paying for it now though - don't let me fool you. My abs are screaming in pain and I am pooped but I have to make it through the day so I can celebrate some amazing women's birthdays tonight. Gonna definitely take a nap after work!!
Hope your day and weekend are as eventful as mine have already been today! ; )
Nope. Not quite.
We decided to run town because I've found (at least for me) that when I run in town I run farther because I have to get home so it's not like I can just quit - I have to finish. : ) Ways I trick my mind and body...
We decided to start on Harvard and work our way down to Utica. As we ran we started talking about adding some extra miles. I suggested going down Cherry Street (it has a huge hill) and then back up on 11th. We pushed and pushed and made that goal. Then Eryn realized we'd hit construction if we ran down to 11th so we took 14th back home - which meant we ran up the Cherry Street hill one street over. I know Eryn wasn't happy but I felt so good making it up that hill - knowing I was at least 5 miles in by then and not stopping. I had no issues climbing it and made it up with relative ease. We kept pushing through and made it back to my apartment in 1 hour and 13 minutes with 6.75 miles under our belt. We figured we might as well finish to 9 miles so we grabbed our keys, ids, etc and walked to the gym.
We did some intense stretching and then set to work - finishing the last 2.25 miles (or in Eryn's case - over 2.5 miles). I stopped at 8.5 miles total and walked the last 4 laps to hit my 9 miles. My knees were getting wobbly and my left foot was starting to hurt each time I hit the ground (time for new shoes??).
I still can't believe we did 9 miles today! When I checked my Nike+ I found that I cut 10 minutes off my run a few weeks ago and I only ran 7.61 then! I even set a new 10k PR on my phone. Pretty intense. It blows my mind to see that I ran over 1.5 hours!! Didn't seem like it was that long at all - maybe an hour at most.
I am paying for it now though - don't let me fool you. My abs are screaming in pain and I am pooped but I have to make it through the day so I can celebrate some amazing women's birthdays tonight. Gonna definitely take a nap after work!!
Hope your day and weekend are as eventful as mine have already been today! ; )
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