Check out my pace in my third mile this morning!! 8:06! Great way to start what turned out to be an amazing day. I was productive at work and at school, I had a wonderful lunch with lovely friends and I had a yummy dinner with my mom. Can’t beat that!
I’m so happy that I’m getting faster!! 😀 Next Step: Adding mileage!!!!
Well, I’m swamped with reading 4 chapters, and I already have a couple of papers I need to be working on… and its only the second day of classes. I spent 14 hours either in my car or at a desk at work or at school today. My knees hurt from being bent all day, and my butt and lower back hurt from being sedentary. When 7:55pm rolled around and the professor began to make sidebar conversation with my peers, I quietly escaped the classroom and ran to my car. I wanted to take advantage of the last bits of day light. I needed to see the sun for my own sanity after being in a window-less office then a window-less classroom all day. Plus I didn’t want to run in total darkness.
I got to the house, greeted the pups, changed and headed out the door. I did 3 miles at an 8:50 pace under the light of a full moon. Not the best run I’ve had but most definitely not the worst. I’ll proudly accept my performance, especially considering the crazy long day I had. Feels so good to keep it up! Now…. lets get some of that reading done… :-\
I am happy to say that I have changed my route for 2 out of my 3 runs this week. Rather than go the same 3 mile loop around my vicinity, I have done two 5 +/- mile runs along completely different routes.
Tonight’s run was south on A1A ending at a peer where we stretched and took a little walk to enjoy the view before heading back to our cars. When we got back, we took off our shoes and cooled off our tootsies in the ocean before driving home.
While today was not one of my best runs, I must say that I feel myself getting stronger. In general, I’m running faster, feeling stronger while running and becoming an all around better athlete. This summer’s training is going to be insane! I plan on running in the mornings when I feel most energized and get stronger through cross training day by day.
Summer vacation could not come fast enough!!!
Little Miss Sunshine State 