We FINALLY got another nice day yesterday so I FINALLY got to run outside again. I am definitely liking the outside runs more than the treadmill now. The only issue with the outside run is that for some reason I got a very ouchy blister on the bottom of my foot yesterday :-( I'm not sure if it's because I run different outside, or if I had bad socks or what, but it really freaking hurts! I'm kind of worried that I was still limping/running funny because of my knee and that that is causing me to turn my foot funny, which is causing the blister :-( I noticed yesterday when I stopped running that my ankle was kind of hurting too in that leg so I am definitely starting to get a little worried about it! I'm not sure what is going on or why I started limping it's only been these last two runs, but it better sort itself out because I start training for the half-mararthon in 10 days!!! Which is totally nuts and I can't believe I'm even freaking saying that. My first 5k will be next weekend :-) and the weather looks like it is supposed to be pretty nice which means that it is actually going to happen! I wasn't going to make myself do it if it was raining/snowing/super windy, I'm a fair weather runner haha.
Yesterday I went .06 miles further than I have ever gone and hit the 3.2 mile marker! Actually it was 3.21 thank you very much! I still have a lot of miles to build up, but I am feeling pretty good about myself. I never in a million years thought I would be out running 3 miles several times a week and I'm doing it! As I was leaving the park I ran at yesterday I thought to myself I'm really a runner! I still feel like I'm dying 95% of the time and that I'm not going to make it, but I'm doing it and that's all that counts. I ran in the same park I did last time and I started out the same way going around the lake, but instead of wandering off the same way this time I took another route down one of our running/biking paths. I was feeling kinda nervous because Cheyenne's version of these paths is just a big sidewalk next to the road, and in this case it was a pretty major road! I felt like all these people were going to see me and think I looked like an idiot, but I just kept on trucking and to be honest I don't think anyone really even noticed. I ran a little over a half mile on the path next to the road, but there was a HUGE hill and I knew if I went down it I would have to come UP it and let's be honest THAT WASN'T HAPPENING! I barely make it around on flat ground, a hill would of killed me haha. Luckily there happened to be an open gate to the golf course right at the top of the hill so I took a little detour and ran on the golf course instead :-) I'm not sure that this is technically "allowed", but there were no signs that said no trespassing, or golfers only or anything and the gate was open! I ran around the golf course for a little while, but turned around because the path I was on was going towards the club house and that didn't seem like a good idea. As I headed back towards the park at the 2 mile marker I was feeling pretty good I was like I can do this, this isn't so bad I'll just run back and It should be about 3 miles when I get to the park. WRONG! I crossed the tunnel back into the park and looked at my running ap fully expecting to be at 3 miles and to my sorry surprise it was only at 2.6! I thought I was going to die right then, and I really wanted to just quit then. But I made my happy ass make a detour next to ANOTHER big road and took the longest way around the park and back to my car and I hit that 3.2 mark and it was worth it for the pride I got to feel :-) Yesterday was slower than my first outside run my average speed was 5.8 but I'll take it. My mile times broke down to:
Mile 1 - 9:50
Mile 2 - 10:51 (not sure what happened here, but this always seems to be the worst part of my run where my legs aren't quite warmed up yet, but they are already starting to get tired)
Mile 3 - 10:36
and the last .21 - 1:59
My slowest mile I averaged 5.5mph and the last .21 was my fastest and I averaged 6.3mph so not terrible, but not great but I have a lot of miles to work on it! Happy Friday All!!!!!
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