So ... it's been going well (knock on wood!!!)....
Last week was a light running week... did 8 miles over the weekend, and it's funny how that's starting to seem like an "light" run ... hahahah.... I completed my run and went up to Tuxedo NY to the Renaissance Festival with my sister Lisa and Anita... it was an AMAZING weekend.... and I decided my last big hurrah before training started to get intense starting in September.
This week I actually did my scheduled runs with the team on Tuesday and on my own on Thursday... Tuesday night we did a series of "out and backs" with the team totalling 5 miles (so 1/4 mile then back, 1/2 mile then back and so on until 1 mile and back). I wound up running most of the time with one of the other ladies on my team. We are both pretty solid 11 minute mile pacers we both admitted... BUT were both in shock when we realized we did our BEST time EVER... averaging out at about 9:28 a mile - with our last mile being a solid 9 minute mile! We both acknowledged that we couldn't have done it without the other inspiring us the whole way!
Yesterday I went back to my "old" route in my neighborhood for the first time in a few months. With the longer runs I changed the route to go directly to Prospect Park, but yesterday was just under 3.5 miles, so I decided to go back to my roots of Ft. Green Park in the HOOD! :) lol I ran an 11 minute pace but it seemed EASY... which is just something I haven't felt yet since I started training in May... The "hills" that seemed to exhaust me before, I was sprinting up.... the whole run seemed like a warm-up!
It was AMAZING to feel the progress that I didn't even know I had made. I was thinking that I was pretty steady and the same this whole time and even trying to play catch up a lot because of the vertigo, and aches and pains I was having ... but after this week, I can see a difference... a real difference, and it's inspiring me to do more...
Tomorrow... 15-16 miles. Wish me luck... :)
More later, peace & love now,
Curly
xo
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