Our schedule called for us to do 4 miles today but on Wednesday I got a call from my dad telling me about all his travelling plans and that we better get our 10.5 mile out of the way or else it might be hard to fit it in and keep on track. Plus with him travelling who knows what kind of shape he will be in when he gets back. :) Well he better still put in some miles because we have a 12'r coming up when he gets back. YIKES!
So I wasn't at all thrilled about doing the 10.5 for a few reasons. One, I felt like I was still recovering from the 9-miler. Two, I hadn't done much exercising this week so I didn't feel physically ready. Three, I hadn't thought up a route yet and I like to have a few days to mentally visualize the run. Honestly, running is a ton of mental strength. For me anyways. I like to get excited about an upcoming run and I didn't feel like this was adequate time to "get excited." So needless to say when Saturday arrived I was a little nervous about how my performance would go. I was telling my dad the night before that he was going to have to motivate me along the way. Then come Saturday morning, I get all dressed and try to prepare myself as best I can when 30 minutes before our run is supposed to start I get a call from my dad saying he wants to put off the run until Sunday. WHAT!? NO! First off, I just gave it my best mental effort to be ready for this run. I can't put it off another day because who knows how I will feel about it tomorrow. Secondly, it is supposed to snow and be even colder tomorrow. He says my mom doesn't want to run because it is so cold. Oh ya, I forgot to mention my mom was coming down to run her 5 miles. I told them to buck up and get in the car and get down here. So they did.
So glad we got it over with. I actually did better than I thought I would. I definitely wouldn't call it my greatest run but I wasn't wanting to quit and just walk home either, which I have had happen on runs in the past. One bad thing though. My right knee is starting to hurt on my runs. I don't know what the deal is. When I lived in Hawaii and California I had NO knee problems whatsoever. Now, back in Utah, my knees are hurting all over again. My dad said he felt great. Probably his marshmallow shoes doing all the work. ;)
Another thing we discovered is we are going to need to start thinking about fuel options. Gu, bars, etc. I am trying to be more aware of my body's needs this time around instead of just going at it blindly. I think that is why I threw up after long runs the last time I did this. I noticed that I started feeling hungry around mile 9, which means we should probably start eating something around mile 7. I don't know. I really need to research this stuff. It starts to get overwhelming when I think about it.
As for the run we just did...we ended up doing 10.8 miles! My dad was loving this because he kept saying, "we basically just ran 11 miles." He was pretty excited. He said this was the farthest he has ever run. We ran from my house out west then headed towards Syracuse. We hopped on the trail and made our way back to West Point. It was a good course! Hopefully I can keep coming up with interesting places to run. I forgot how hard it is to come up with that many miles.
Oh and by the way, my mom did great! Instead of running 5 miles, she ran 6.8! What the heck!
So I wasn't at all thrilled about doing the 10.5 for a few reasons. One, I felt like I was still recovering from the 9-miler. Two, I hadn't done much exercising this week so I didn't feel physically ready. Three, I hadn't thought up a route yet and I like to have a few days to mentally visualize the run. Honestly, running is a ton of mental strength. For me anyways. I like to get excited about an upcoming run and I didn't feel like this was adequate time to "get excited." So needless to say when Saturday arrived I was a little nervous about how my performance would go. I was telling my dad the night before that he was going to have to motivate me along the way. Then come Saturday morning, I get all dressed and try to prepare myself as best I can when 30 minutes before our run is supposed to start I get a call from my dad saying he wants to put off the run until Sunday. WHAT!? NO! First off, I just gave it my best mental effort to be ready for this run. I can't put it off another day because who knows how I will feel about it tomorrow. Secondly, it is supposed to snow and be even colder tomorrow. He says my mom doesn't want to run because it is so cold. Oh ya, I forgot to mention my mom was coming down to run her 5 miles. I told them to buck up and get in the car and get down here. So they did.
So glad we got it over with. I actually did better than I thought I would. I definitely wouldn't call it my greatest run but I wasn't wanting to quit and just walk home either, which I have had happen on runs in the past. One bad thing though. My right knee is starting to hurt on my runs. I don't know what the deal is. When I lived in Hawaii and California I had NO knee problems whatsoever. Now, back in Utah, my knees are hurting all over again. My dad said he felt great. Probably his marshmallow shoes doing all the work. ;)
Another thing we discovered is we are going to need to start thinking about fuel options. Gu, bars, etc. I am trying to be more aware of my body's needs this time around instead of just going at it blindly. I think that is why I threw up after long runs the last time I did this. I noticed that I started feeling hungry around mile 9, which means we should probably start eating something around mile 7. I don't know. I really need to research this stuff. It starts to get overwhelming when I think about it.
As for the run we just did...we ended up doing 10.8 miles! My dad was loving this because he kept saying, "we basically just ran 11 miles." He was pretty excited. He said this was the farthest he has ever run. We ran from my house out west then headed towards Syracuse. We hopped on the trail and made our way back to West Point. It was a good course! Hopefully I can keep coming up with interesting places to run. I forgot how hard it is to come up with that many miles.
Oh and by the way, my mom did great! Instead of running 5 miles, she ran 6.8! What the heck!
**STATS**
Distance: 10.8 miles
Time: 1:51:23
Pace: 10:19/min/mile
Temperature: 24 degrees
Time of day: 10:20 a.m
Distance: 10.8 miles
Time: 1:51:23
Pace: 10:19/min/mile
Temperature: 24 degrees
Time of day: 10:20 a.m
These are not my best looking pictures. I was talking when the picture snapped. And we didn't get my mom in any pictures because she was off running errands by the time we got back.
The 1 1 fingers is because my dad said we basically ran 11 miles. 
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