It had been a good week of running. Last Sunday I ran 6 miles, a Fartlek run on Tuesday (4 miles), 3 miles on Wednesday, 4 miles on Thursday, 3 miles yesterday and 8.2. today. Some notes from the week.
- Wednesday run was my second nighttime alone run. They freak the heck out of me and I hate them. I was so glad it was only 3 miles. I did really appreciate the truck full of boys that passed me twice yelling, “RUN” at me. I had completely forgot what I was doing until they reminded me.
- Thursday Laney rejoined me. I gave her a full week off and she was more than ready to run again. I was so glad to have my nighttime running partner back.
- I have been running my long runs pretty fast for me. Usually I run around 10 minute miles (sometimes a little slower). Last week was about 57 minutes for 6 miles and today was 77 minutes for 8.2.
- Today’s run was hard. I was supposed to run with a friend, but she got sick. I could have used the support. The first 6 miles were pretty good. The 7th mile was really difficult. I made sure to drink water at every mile which is something that I am not very good at normally. The weather wasn’t too hot and that helped, but I just haven’t run over 7 miles since April.
- I did karate on Monday and Thursday. On Thursday we did front kicks from a lunge position. Then we did double jump kicks from the lunge position. Lunges are hard on me normally. Adding the kicks to them killed me. I was trying to be very careful, but I must have placed my knee down too hard because it has been bothering me since. My thighs are also extremely sore. Who knew I could run over 20 miles in a week and my legs are fine. A couple of sets of lunges and I can’t walk up steps correctly. Luckily the sore muscles haven’t bothered my running at all. With the addition of 8.2 miles today though my legs are like Jello.
- I did 8.2 today instead of 8 because technology failed me. I had my GPS watch on, but I forgot to charge it. I was afraid it would die during my run so I downloaded the Cardio Trainer for my phone (great app). My watch did die around 5 miles. When I looked at my phone is was calculating the run in kilometers instead of miles. I know the conversion, but due to some rounding error I ended up doing 8.2 instead of 8 miles. Okay, so I guess technology didn’t fail me, I did. Next time I will have charged watch and remember to switch the program to miles.
Just in case you are bored with all my running posts, here’s some cute pictures:
