Ten Miler

YEAH!! My first ten miles. I have been training for a couple of races I committed to, but it's been really hard. I have not been able to get into the groove very easily and every time I run it's really hard and unenjoyable. I have kept at it because I really need to, but not very happily. Today called for a long run. I have yet to make the distance they actually want me too, but I have gone farther than my farthest each time. Today I was shooting for nine miles. There's a loop through the neighborhood that is 4 1/2 miles so I just needed to do it twice. Well, I forgot to make a turn so my first loop was actually over 5.25 miles. At that point I knew I must do 10. I actually felt really good. The first 6 miles were all right at 11 min/miles. I was really happy with that and I felt really good to boot. It was mile 7 that I crashed. I went from woohoo to ah crap in a hurry. The great thing was that I was never out of breath, my legs were just tired. My toes were killing me and that sucked. Once I got to 9.5 I couldn't stop there so I went the extra half to get to 10. I ended at one hour and 55 min. That's 11:29 min/miles. I thought if I could do 12 min/miles that would be great. I am definitely happy with today! Bonus for the week, I lost 3 pounds.