so okay i have been really been sucking it up with the running, but i'm just so exhausted after work every day and since i dont have any other schedule (as in, grad school) its too easy to come home and sleep and tell myself i'm going to go when i wake up ... yeeee bout that, it uh, never happens. so the longest distance i've run thus far is a little over 6 miles, and that was maaaybe 2 weeks ago, maybe 3 weeks, i'm not sure.
this morning the weather was fabbbb 38ยบ. bridget wasnt feeling well so she didn't make it out, which made it suuuupah hard to motivate myself to do it, but i knew i would feel too guilty if i didn't go. so i got there and saw some people i know and they asked me if i wanted to run 12 miles with them. i was like uhhhhh. lol. from 6 --> 12, that'd be quiiite the jump. ramon told us to run 1 mile longer than our longest run, but my mileage is off because i'm basically running a half-marathon runners mileage. soo they split everyone into pace groups and i ran with the pacer of the 10-min mile group. we did this loop from 72nd to the top of the park (110th street). where i encountered the biggest hill of central park: harlem hill. umm. i hate hills that go up AND curve around because you never know where its gonna end. luckily since i was runner with the guy who was pacing it, he told me to slow down and it was a wise choice.
when we got back to the 72nd transverse we basically lost the rest of the group we were running with. they decided to run the lower loop (another 1.7 miles) instead of running a big loop. so then it was just me and this guy. hahaha. i knew i couldnt keep that pace up though bc we were going on 5 miles and i had been talking and going pretty fast for the whole time. but he had to stop to switch his socks and i am confused about where i was supposed to meet him, but i ended up running another 4 mile loop by myself. when i got to the 102nd street transverse i really started to feel it. that was probably about 7 miles. i could just feel that i had no energy left. and yet, i kept imagining telling people that i ran 9 miles and i really didn't want to have to say, ohh yea i walked a little bit. not to mention that it wasn't even that i was out of breath ... it was just that my body felt like it was shutting down. hahaha. i just had literally no energy. i can definitely see why sport gels (GROSSSERRROOO!!!!!!!) become important because there's no way i can run a marathon without eating something somewhere in the middle. also, you obviously carbo-load the days before.
anyways, it was reallllllly rough running the last mile. from about w 95th to w 72nd it was like i was moving in slooow motion. BUT. ...
i did it!!
it felt reallllly good to finish it and i actually can't believe i did!! so, i can officially run 1/3 of a marathon!!!
i need to run like 3 miles for the next couple days. 3 miles seems so easy again!! yaaay!
also, it was fun because the first 5 miles that i ran with that guy, we talked the whole time. i forgot how fun it is to run and talk, and how fast the mileage goes when you're talking. :)
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