Today was the first of our longer individual runs and I was coming off of what I considered to be one of my worst runs in a while so I didn't know what to really expect. I decided to change things up a bit and woke up a bit early, knocked back some water as my body/mind awoke, and decided to knock my run out first thing this morning. As I was drinking my water and getting ready I realized I had left my iPod at work so no music and no nice lady telling me how much time I had left on my run. I guess I was going to have to find the "beat" that Ruthie said inside of me but I still had no idea as to how I was going time my run. After a few minutes of thinking I decided I would run with my phone. Typically I don't like to run with anything in my hands but when you are handed lemons I figured I better make lemonade.
Anyway I headed out and from the start I knew that this was going to be a run I felt good about. The first mile I took it a little easier than normal as I still wasn't quite awake but soon after that I began to push it a little harder and I was pleased to see that my legs actually responded. By the end of the run I was feeling great and felt I could have gone on for another hour at least, I knew then that I needed to push it harder next time but I told myself that part of the reason I settled in at the pace I did might have had something to do with the new time, me picking a new route as I ran, and me constantly checking my phone to see how much time was left before I had to stop. Come Saturday I will run this route again and I will be even closer to the house when the buzzer goes off but before I get there I have speed work on the U of R track tomorrow.
A special thanks to my friends and teammates for the kind words and encouragement yesterday when I was bummed about my run. I took all of that with me as I headed out the door this morning and I am sure that helped to make today's run what it was.
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