Confidence

Week 10

Total Miles:  22.28 Miles

Long Run:  9.28 miles!!!!!!!!!

This week rocked.  The weather was fantastic during the week and I am pretty sure Tim and I are now adjusted to getting up at 5am.  We ran to Murphy Lake and back on both Monday and Thursday, and I am happy to say that those hills aren’t getting the best of me!  Do I like hills like Tim likes hills?  No way.  That is just not gonna happen!  But, I am not going to let them beat me! 

All week long, I had been dreading the 9 mile run.  As we keep tacking more miles on, the scarier that number just gets to me.  The weather didn’t help either.  Friday night the news kept saying there could be showers or thunderstorms in the morning on Saturday, so we decided to postpone until Sunday.  This bothered me simply because I felt like I was giving up.  You see, as a former fatty that never exercised, I am all too familiar with saying, “I’ll do it Monday” or I’ll start next week” and then Monday/next week would come and go.   I could come up with any excuse to get me out of sweating.  So, putting off the run felt oddly familiar to me.  When I got up on Saturday and saw that the weather was just fine, I was so very annoyed!  I beat myself up about it for a few hours and with some encouragement from Tim and some friends, I just shook it off and told myself no matter what I was going to run 9 miles on Sunday! 

And I so rocked those 9 miles!  We had the best weather for a long run.  Clear skies, cool temps-- it was awesome!  I didn’t have my Garmin because Tim’s was dead, so I’m not sure what my pace was the first few miles.  I’ll take a guess that it was my typical slow-unsure-I-can-really-do-this pace.  J   Midway through, I was feeling pretty good.  I took my green apple gel (which is the best tasting one that I have had so far!) and kept on a runnin’.   We hit nine a bit before Leah’s house and instead of stopping; we just kept on running until we got there.  I felt fantastic afterwards and I think Jaime and Leah felt great, too!  This run made me feel like 13.1 miles is completely doable!  I also feel like we are going to rock our 2:30 goal! 

So, confident isn’t a feeling I’m all that familiar with.  Those that know me well know that I’m pretty unsure of myself most of the time.  Heck, next week’s blog could very well be a whinefest about how I can’t do it, etc.  But, at this very moment, I am so thrilled with my progress that I feel like I could go out and run 13.1 miles tomorrow ending with a big ol’ smile on my face!  I still remember the first time I ran for 2 minutes when we were doing Couch to 5k.  I remember thinking there is no way I could ever do anymore than those 2 long minutes.  It’s so awesome to be where I am now and to look forward to where I am going to be if I keep working for it. 

Side Note: 
Tim had a whopping 20 miles to run, but he was able to meet us at Leah’s house.  He was quite spry—even playful! We would be running a little behind him and then we would lose him for a bit.  A few minutes later, he would pop up behind us!  So, he was literally running circles around us!   When he hit 17 miles, he turned to us and said, “All I have is a 5k to do.  I got this.”  Then he took off like he was racing a 5k.  I tell ya, he never stops amazing me! 

Quote of the week: 

It never gets easier.  You just get better. 
--Unknown (saw it on a poster.)