I learned all sorts of new things today!
1) I can run 4 miles! Yep that's right I did it! It didn't feel very good (from 1.2 miles on I wanted to quit) and it was super slow, but I did it and I felt like a boss!
2) It is a terrible idea to try and run in old running shoes. I was worried it was going to be muddy out after all the snow we had gotten so I decided to use an older pair of shoes I have... I now have TWO new blisters thanks to that decision.
3) I hope I never meet someone who can read minds while I'm running because I realized today I have a constant dialogue of whining going through my head.
4) Running 4 miles makes me SUPER hungry. I had to stop to fill up my car on the way home from running and I HAD to get something to eat or I really thought I was going to die. I almost went off the deep end and bought junk, but I opted for a Bolthouse green smoothie (surprisingly good), and a cheese stick (yes I know random combo, but that's what the tummy wanted!). I live about 1 minute from the gas station I stopped at and I downed 3/4 of the smoothie and ate the cheese stick before I got home.. yep. Oh and then I snarfed down a bowl of chili and several handfuls of baked tortilla chips like I had never seen food before. I truly didn't know I was capable of being that ravenous.
5) Speaking of gas stations, I learned when my car says "low fuel" it means it. I put 18.7 gallons of gas in my 19 gallon gas tank, go me!
6) I really, truly, from the bottom of my heart hate hills, and I will do just about anything to avoid them. I started my run today by my house because I didn't want to have to drive anywhere, I took a trail that in my memory once I got up this first little hill was pretty flat... yeah no. I got to the top of "the hill' and saw that it continued to be hilly and immediately stopped running and walked back to my house. I then drove to the park I usually run at and ran where it was flat. For being a state that I thought was notarize for being flat, the city of Cheyenne sure managed to make EVERY running trail hilly as shit! I don't know what I am going to do when I outgrow Frontier Park :-( Sadly I think that day is coming soon I barely squeaked 4 miles out of it.
7) I hate cleaning my fridge almost as much as I hate hills. I have managed to put off doing it ALL day.
And that's the end of my learning so far today, but I thought I'd break down my run for you
Total time - 45:58 (after my 5k last Saturday I wanted my 4 mile run to be more like 41/42 minutes, but after skipping running all week my goal when I went out today was around 45... so not too far off where I thought I'd be)
Average speed - 5.2, yeah that shit was ugly, that's all I can say. That's what you get when you only run ONE mile all week and then you try and run four. Never doing that again. This blazing pace breaks down to an average of 11:28 a mile. I have NEVER ran that slow of a mile, so that is more than a little disappointing, I was serious as slow as a turtle today, but at least I got it done.
Mile 1 - 11:20 average speed of 5/3
Mile 2 - 11:48 average speed of 5.1 HELLO SLOW POKE my second mile is always my slowest and it always feels the hardest I'm not sure what is up with that
Mile 3 - 11:41 average pace 5.1 still a major slow poke :-(
Mile 4 - 11:03 average pace 5.4, way to finish strong?
Ugh that's all I can really say. Those are some seriously UGLY times that I hope I don't ever see again. I still am proud of myself for doing it though, even at a snails pace. I almost had myself talked into only going 3.5. I was telling myself that's still farther than you have ever run, and you have next week to get your 4 miles, you should just stop, you don't need to do it. But I closed out those thoughts and did it. I wanted to reach that goal. I wanted to go .8 further than I had EVER ran in my whole life, not just .3 more. And I did it. And this week I am going to train like I am supposed to no matter what the weather throws at me, or what excuses I drum up for myself because I want to DESTROY those times on my four mile run next week.
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