7:30am 70 something...80 something humidity
I woke up at 5 to eat cereal and a banana and went back to bed till 7. Then I loaded up and drove to the bike trail. I took one water with me but left the rest at my truck b/c I ran 3 miles down the trail then back. I stopped drank my energy thing which was disgusting but I can see that it helped so I will just try something different. Them I ran north on the trail 3 miles and back again.
the first 2.5 really stunk b/c everything seemed to hurt again. It is day two of the shoes so I stopped running started walking and had a talk with myself. It isn't the shoes it isn't anything...just run! I felt tingley all over and all of a sudden the pain was gone. Weird but works for me. mile 5 I hit my stride. here are my times
1: 12:04
2: 11:23
3: 10:23
4: 10:12
5: 9:31
6: 9:45
7: 9:41
8: 9:11
9: 9:24
10: 9:41
11: 9:51
12: 9:41
Miles 7 and 8 seemed to breeze on by. I was surprised when my watch beeped at me to tell me my times. Pretty cool. I started getting hungry again after 10 miles so I think I will have to bring 2 energy/gu things with me for race day so I don't get all slow.
But I would like to point out that this was done in 2 hours...SOOOO 10 more minutes and I would have been at 2:10 for a 1/2 marathon. So that is a whole 10 minutes faster than my last 1/2...if I could just get my first few miles a little faster than I would totally be about be around a 2:05 1/2...sooo i'm kinda getting stoked about all of this
Oh and thank goodness for buffs...no sweat in my eyes today..I knew I was sweating but I sure didn't feel it on my head! | 