5K! 34:33! 11:06 per mile! Woot!
Now, all the Houston Running Bloggers who run much faster than me (which is, really, everybody), please try not to laugh too hard at my excitement over tonight’s run. But it was a good one. I felt better than I have lately, and it showed in my speed. Or, “speed.” At 11:00/mile, speed is a relative term.
I truly can’t explain why some runs just go better. I wish I could, so that I could somehow capture it. As far as I can tell, there are just some days when my body feels better, and also when my brain is prepared to handle a higher level of discomfort. Some days I just don’t want to work hard, and some days it feels good. Last night was obviously, one of those.
I wasn’t in The Zone; I’ve been there before and it’s fabulous, but last night wasn’t like that. But I was zoned out for most of the run, which is almost as good. I thought about my trip to JPL (I’m leaving today), and about baseball. I thought a lot about baseball, as is probably evident if you read the post below. 😉
I ran on the afore-mentioned boring street outside my apartment complex. I ran around 8:00. I hadn’t eaten since lunch, and hadn’t had any fluids all afternoon except a coke. I got to bed too late last night and only got about 6 hours of sleep.
And yet I had a good run. Go figure.
Whheeeee! Don’t you love a good run? You get all those wonderful run feelings that people talk about.. those endorphin thingies.. and your body just WORKS.
Good for you…i had a good run too…and i didn’t break any speed records either!
-jessica
sweet!!!! nice run Sarah 🙂 11/mile is not slow btw.
Dear Ms. S. Gonzales,
Great run!
Good Run Yo! It’s about finishing, not speed. Finishing is absolute, speed is relative. I’m sure Dr. Einstein would agree.
Yeah as someone trying to become a runner it is interesting and frustrating why sometimes I feel really good running and other times I bonk quickly. I guess as my fitness level improves hopefully the good runs will start to out number the bad.