Just after I told you last week that I was getting ready to renounce running as my preferred method of exercise, last week happened. Every run was good. Seriously, all four of them didn’t make me want to die, I enjoyed portions of them and I ran well! This never happens. It’s like running overheard me getting ready to cut it from my life and decided to rope me back in.
I can attribute this stellar week to two things:
- Every run was a morning run. Waking up early is not my thing, but I hauled myself out of bed around 6 on the weekdays and at 8 for my weekend run. I could definitely feel a temperature difference, so I think that was helpful. Interestingly, I don’t eat when I run in the morning—I just go. So I would have thought my runs would have been poor since my energy levels were quite low, but I surprised myself.
- I have stopped my warm-up walk. I would usually walk a few blocks/minutes to get warmed up. Now I just start running.
This week I continue with four runs, all of them are pretty easy, I guess because last week was tougher. But I saw the following week my first 8-miler of the training will be on tap. Kinda odd because at no point have I done 7 miles. A bunch of 6-ers and 5-ers, but now we’re just moving into 8. But I can blow worrying about that off for a little less than 2 weeks.
On a totally unrelated note, today is exactly 2 months until my wedding!
Yay! So glad you and running have made friends!! Good luck on your 8 miles (have you already run it?).
ReplyDeleteI think it's time to change your 'about me' from "trying for her first half marathon" to "definitely running her first half marathon." You've so got this!!