Moving on....

Sorry for the lack of updates. I've gotten on here numerous times and have started an entry but haven't been able to complete it. It still sits in my drafts. So instead of continuing to come back to it and not completing it I've decided to just move on and maybe come back to it later.

So yesterday with the encouragement of my husband I decided to train a little different. Instead of going by time I decided to run by distance. I decided I'd go with run .50 walk .10 for 3.10 miles....

So first run of .50 I was at a avg. 12:17 pace. I was actually feeling pretty good and felt like I could go longer but decided I should just stick with the plan.

Walk for .10 at 16:50 pace

Second run I slowed down. I think I was still in the 'minute' mind frame instead of distance and was thinking I needed to slow down to complete it. It wasn't until the end that I realized the faster I go the sooner I get done (Duh moment!) So this .50 I did a 12:44 pace

Walk for .10 at 16:30 pace

This one was at a 12:45 pace

Walk for .10 at 17:12 pace.

12:10 pace. Second wind I guess or maybe this is when I realized the faster I went the sooner I got done....

Walk for .10 at 16:05 pace. So at this point I was feeling pretty good. I started adding up when I'd been walking again and realized this would put me at walk at mile 2.90 for .10 and running from 3.00 to 3.10. So I decided to just got for the full .70 and see how it went....

Look at that! Busted it out at a 11:05 pace at the freakin' end of my run. That really helped my confidence.
One thing I realized on this run is
1. the obvious. I can run a lot more than I thought I could and
2. I spend way too much time comparing myself to other people. While I was running even though I should have been incredibly proud of myself I was debating putting this on the blog because I felt like I was going so slow compared to my friends that are runners. My friends are awesome and are running long distances and running it at a faster pace than me. I am so proud of them and all they've accomplished but I find myself comparing my running to theirs and it's just not fair to myself to do that. I am truly working on my frame of mind and trying to learn to celebrate in my own personal triumphs instead of focusing on where other people are and where I'd like to be (now instead of gradually)


This morning I got up and really wanted to go for another run and decided to go for it. My Hubby really wanted me to just run until I couldn't run anymore and see how far I could go. I left considering doing that but I hadn't really decided what I was going to do

This is what came from me just running. No looking at the time. No checking to see how far I'd gone. And not having any idea what my pace was. It says 10:14 pace at the bottom but that's just what I was doing at that very moment. My avg. pace was actually 11:45 pace (top right). As I was running I was still trying to decide if I should run until I couldn't stop. I really was leaning more towards trying to do the 3 miles and just run the majority of the time so thats when I decided to take a walk break so that I *could* make it the 3 miles. Bad idea. As soon as I stopped to walk my body was like *whoa* and I knew it was going to be really hard to start running again and even harder to do the full 3 miles. I knew I had to at least make it back to the house so I was going to walk for a bit and see if I could run a little more

I didn't plan on walking this long but I got to a hill and did not want to start running on the hill. So after my 5 minute walk I decided to try to run the rest of the way home

So I was able to go the rest of the way (about .60) with a .09 cool down. My pace for that .60 was on avg about 12:15 or so.

I'm pleased with the outcome. I'm on my way to running the 5K without stopping and then it's on to running the 5K in 30 minutes or less! :)