A couple items of note happened in my training world in the past few weeks.
1. I ran really far. 5.7 miles to be exact. It was another awesome run where Superman himself was running through my veins and I felt like I could go on forever. I set out determined to run until the sun went down, and that's exactly what I did. It was glorious. My next step is to do 6+ miles. I'm thinking I can make that happen next week......
2. I did the Cancer Challenge 5K this past weekend. I didn't do nearly as well as I'd hoped, but I ran what I felt like was a realistic (albeit sad and humbling) picture of where I am with training. I'll spare the details. I ran 3.1 miles in 27:30ish. I was really hoping for an under 9:00 mile pace. But at least now I have a starting point and it'll only get better from here!
3. Rush Running speed session happened today. How hot was it, you ask? 100+ degrees. But my running buddy was there so that made the heat at least tolerable :) It's amazing how having someone to run with makes the workouts and the weather not seem as bad as they would if I was by myself.
4. New training set-backs that I hadn't really thought about happened as well. (Or maybe I did think about them...... I'll have to go back to post #1 and see.) Husband out of town + highs in the upper 90s = no running for this lady. That could have been a partial contributor to my less than stellar preformance on Saturday.
August 11 is the next race that I know for sure I'm doing. Tontitown's Run for the Grapes 5k. I did it last year with a friend, pushing a stoller, newly preggo, and it was awesome! My goal this year will be 25:30. Game on.
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