13 miles Upside & Down

Today I ran 13 miles beginning and ending at Spanish Landing.

The Upside:
I kept pace with the captain for the A group! He finished less than 45 sec in front of me!

The two people I usually judge my pace by (the ones I usually run behind) split up toward the end. One finished with the captain, just ahead of me, and the other finished about 3 minutes behind me.

I really did SO much better than I have in the past! I stuck to the 9 min run & 1 min walk sets the entire time! No extra walking!

It took me roughly 2hrs 40min to complete all 13 miles. That's a pace of 12min 13sec per mile! Woohoo!

Oh! And I finally remembered to put on my sunscreen! :-D No burning today!

The Downside:
Today I began chaffing- BAD. I am currently enjoying the pleasant sensation of cornstarch on my body in all the places where my skin has been rubbed raw- even bleeding in spots.

My knees are screaming in pain (IT band) so that I groan audibly whenever I get up or down.

My right ankle is very sore and barely supports me.

My toes (the ones I had podiatry work on) finally started hurting at about 8 miles after running on cobblestones for about 1/2 a mile.

The toe immediately to the right of one of my bandaged toes now has a painful blister as a result of rubbing repeatedly on the bandage.


To End On A Good Note:
This too shall pass! :-D

I DID IT!!!

April Fools Day

April Fools Day was listed as a back down day on the training schedule. It said that we were only to run 6 miles. Turns out that was right. We did only run 6 miles. The April Fools part was that we were actually saying, "only 6 miles"!

I actually got 5+ hrs of sleep the night previous and ended up finishing the 6 miles with comparative ease. I finished about a 1/2 mile AHEAD of the people I normally finish BEHIND. I discovered once more that talking is VERY beneficial to my pace.

Afterward I was reasonably tired, but NOT exhausted and NOT walking around like an old lady!

I was very encouraged to do so well, especially after last week's Sea World run where I finished so close to last and could barely move for the rest of the day.