I have completed another long run today and have 4 more to go before race day. I have been on cloud nine since this morning for two reasons. I ran 10 miles this morning and cut off 8 seconds off my average overall pace per mile!!! I have been so tickled. Don't know if you remember me saying in an earlier post that the farthest that I went in training last year was 8 so running 10 today was a huge deal to me. I am so excited and even more so looking forward to race day!!!
I did, however, have to get started earlier than most of the runners did. The group was running 6 miles this morning and I needed to get in 10 so I started about 45 minutes before everyone else did. Plan was to get 4 miles in and then run with the group, I only had time to get in a 5k so I had to run a little extra at the end. That was hard in itself but I will get to that in a minute. I did pretty good for the first part of the run and into the second round to start the six. I was able to maintain a pretty good pace and was quite pleased with myself until I stopped at the first water station.
I paused my run to get a drink and didn't have anywhere to set my phone so I was like I will just stick it in my bra. Bad idea!!! At first, I thought that I lost my run altogether and that is just not even funny at all. Turns out I ended the run so I was going to have to start over. It still saved my run but now my mile splits weren't going to be consistent and I was a little irritated. I knew that if it didn't do that I would have beat my 10k time from the 4th of July race. Oh well, it was already said and done and there wasn't anything I could do about it so I just tried my best to let it go. I had 4.25 miles left to go when this happened and I needed to get it done so I could get home to get ready for church.
So I restart my running app and get my butt moving. After about half a mile or more, we came to a hill that I did sprints up last Tuesday. I am glad now that I did them because usually I get very intimidated by the hills which in turn makes me go up the hill slower. Instead, I went full force up the hills and it felt good. I think that has helped me with my pace and running with this group as well. The last couple miles was the hardest. I just had a hard time finding the motivation that I needed to keep moving forward so at times I was moving really slow and then there were times I felt great.
Now we are down to the last mile and boy was it hard. I struggled so much during that last mile that I was ready to give up but knew that I needed to keep going because I needed to get my miles in today. The past 2 weeks I have been unable to get my miles in and today I was able to and I needed to take advantage of it so I pushed through that voice in my head saying, "It is okay to stop." I made it and adding my times together I had a great pace and like I said at the beginning of this post I took 8 seconds off of my overall pace from last week and even ran longer. I am getting excited about next month's race and can't believe that I only have 4 more training runs to go and then the next weekend is race day!!!
So until next time.
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