last week - gerlinda
sounds like you & your mom have a bunch of fun stuff planned, abby! how'd it go?
last week was kind of blechy for me... i dunno if i'm a little burned out or what, but i couldn't seem to motivate. i didn't do anything at all wed. or thurs. friday, i did 5 miles at the gym out of guilt. saturday, i took the dog on a 4-5 mile hike, but it wasn't all that vigorous or anything - we took lots of breaks for him to swim or sniff stuff, etc.
i went to a friend's birthday party saturday night and stayed out late and woke up late. i really had no intention of going on a "long run." but then i thought of my dad and of everyone who's donated to PanCAN to support these runs, and i got my bootie out to the freedom parkway trail. lucky for me, rama & lauren had a hard time motivating yesterday too, so i met up with them around 10am and we ran the trail twice. it's about 5.8 miles from ponce de leon to the street just past boulevard & the rusty MLK statue and back to ponce. so we did that twice, for 11.6 miles. i ran it in i think 2:10, with many a walk break and stops to fill the water bottle. i didn't feel the sun as much as i thought i would. the run kind of sucked, overall - the heat, the humidity, the unshaded sections of trail. but it felt great to follow through, you know? i was really proud of myself for not flaking out.
next weekend is the half marathon! now, having run 11.6, i feel confident about getting through the 13.1. it would be awesome to knock it out in 2:29, so that i'm on track to do the full marathon in under 5 hours. we shall see... it's getting exciting!
last week was kind of blechy for me... i dunno if i'm a little burned out or what, but i couldn't seem to motivate. i didn't do anything at all wed. or thurs. friday, i did 5 miles at the gym out of guilt. saturday, i took the dog on a 4-5 mile hike, but it wasn't all that vigorous or anything - we took lots of breaks for him to swim or sniff stuff, etc.
i went to a friend's birthday party saturday night and stayed out late and woke up late. i really had no intention of going on a "long run." but then i thought of my dad and of everyone who's donated to PanCAN to support these runs, and i got my bootie out to the freedom parkway trail. lucky for me, rama & lauren had a hard time motivating yesterday too, so i met up with them around 10am and we ran the trail twice. it's about 5.8 miles from ponce de leon to the street just past boulevard & the rusty MLK statue and back to ponce. so we did that twice, for 11.6 miles. i ran it in i think 2:10, with many a walk break and stops to fill the water bottle. i didn't feel the sun as much as i thought i would. the run kind of sucked, overall - the heat, the humidity, the unshaded sections of trail. but it felt great to follow through, you know? i was really proud of myself for not flaking out.
next weekend is the half marathon! now, having run 11.6, i feel confident about getting through the 13.1. it would be awesome to knock it out in 2:29, so that i'm on track to do the full marathon in under 5 hours. we shall see... it's getting exciting!
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