I guess every week I'll be a little amazed because the distance we run on Sunday will ALWAYS be longer than I have ever run before, but this week kind of snuck up on me. Every other week we've done our Sunday runs based on time- last week we went for 60 minutes and went almost 5 miles, by my calculations. Well, this week, boys and girls, we threw caution to the wind and switched things up- from now on we'll be doing our runs based on distance. Today's distance was 6 miles.
Let me tell you this- just 5 short weeks ago, the longest I had ever run in one sitting was about 3.1 miles- a 5k. We basically ran a 10k this morning, which blows my mind. It just goes to show what you can do if you take little steps.
I definitely was feeling it at the end and I was really ready for it to be over, but I did it and I think I could have continued on for another mile or two! Don't get me wrong, I was glad that I didn't have to. But still, it feels good to not be completely wiped out at the end.
It is REALLY hot in SoCal this weekend- it was 106 in Burbank on Friday. It is probably only in the 80s in Santa Monica, but still- it was HOT running. So I'm glad to have the long run behind me for another week. Hopefully it will cool off this week and be a little less hot next weekend. I heard a rumor that we are going to move our long runs up by 30 minutes so we start running at 7:30 AM instead of 8:00 AM soon, although if you know me well, you know how unexcited I am about the earlier time. But it will be good in that it will be a little cooler still.
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