WOO HOO!!!
9 miles today and I only stopped at the halfway to dump the pepples out of my shoe. The course I ran today had an uphill grade going out, and I barely noticed it, after those mountain runs the last couple of weeks. Of course the downhill coming back help. I felt just right when I got back to the car. I definately felt like I’d done something but not dead. Yeah!! I think I’ll make my half marathon goal, which is offically October 5th.
Workout:
- Type: Run
- Date: 08/24/2008
- Time: 09:17:04
- Total Time: 1:36:51.00
- Distance: 9 miles
- Average Pace: 10:45.16/mile
August 24th, 2008 at 12:04 pm
Congrats!! I, too, am training for a half marathon. It is October 19th. I ran 6.5 miles today, my longest to date. I am increasing a mile every week. Are you on a similar training schedule? I keep thinking at each increase that it took all I have and Im not sure where the next mile will come from, but thus far, its been there! You are certainly well on your way! Great job and best of luck!
August 24th, 2008 at 12:23 pm
Thank you, and good luck to you on the 19th. It seems like it’s taken me forever to get here. I started working out in January. It was really hard to get myself motivated. I don’t have a running partner, where I live, but I made it over the hump, and I’m starting to feel like my old self again. I was trying to add a mile every two weeks, but in July I hurt my back and lost a month of training. So, now I’m just adding a mile a week. I hope to keep a long run of about 10 miles through the winter, and maybe do a 5k a month, until spring, when the mountain runs start again. I really like the seemingly impossible challenges of the trail. For me the accomplishment is in just finishing alive, not finishing fast. LOL Thanks for writing. Diana