is very, very swollen. Not sure why, but this is how my hand looked like after my run this morning. Maybe it was the iPod band? Or poor hydration? Or the heat and humidity? No worries, it all cleared up within an hour or two.
I hit the snooze button about a dozen times this AM, so got a late start at 6:45, and after warm-up and stretches, started running at exactly 7 am. By then it was about 72 degrees which is not terrible and the humidity was moderate but best of all I was blessed with cloudy skies for most of the run.
The plan today was to complete 8 miles, but I wasn't sure I was going to do the while thing since last week I had only done 7.2 miles and didn't want to push myself too hard. But as usual, once I got going I felt pretty good and when I came to that turn in the road, right to go home or left to go another mile, I took the left and sailed through.
Until mile 6 that is, I was doing OK but going downhill really does a number on my knees so I end up walking down hill and looking forward to the up-hills. Somewhere around mile 7.5 (I am just estimating b/c I don't have a Garmin) I was hurting so I took a short walk break but it wasn't really worth it since starting up again is so much harder. I truly don't understand how people can do the run-walk-run method. Once I stop, I stop for good.
At the last half-mile I looked down and realized that I stood a chance (small, but still a chance) of finishing around 2 hours, so I really pushed it and sailed through quickly. I can't imagine being able to run that fast for a long period of time.
Totals for this week's long run: 8.1 miles completed in 2:05:26 for a pace of 15:27 min/mile. Not too shabby!
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