Someone somewhere please help me to understand how this run was so bad... yet so important. The morning started off rough. Throat burning, nose processing steam.. i felt like a human dragon. It was more then obvious that my cold has yet to gone any where. I had to run. I only have so many days to train and this day is one of the most important... the long run.
I've run longer but for this training these 3 miles meant a lot to me and couldn't be put off. "Up and at em"... I said to myself as I heard my 3 year old come barrelling around the corner coughing. Well here comes hiccup number 1, off to Walgreen's I go.
I return with the liquid gold, stretched (while listening to my 8 year old tell some story), grabbed my arm band and head phones and headed out. Now I love my MiiKeys Wireless headphones! They were a running gift from me to me when I first started running. My last half marathon I used a different pair of headphones, but upon my return to running in August one side stopped working. So im off, my headphones and I as Lil Wayne picks the world up and drops it on your head I hear, "Out of range."First confusion hits me as my phone is on my arm and the headphones are on my head and there can be no way that it is out of range, as Wayne kicks back in I keep running.
I thought I was in the clear until that British woman yells at me again " out of range" and then again " out of range." Ummm.. this is not going to work. I flashed back to my first half marathon, when my technology crapped out one me. When that Nike voice I was so use to hearing from was silenced, when Spotify lost connection and would not reconnect, I flashed back to those emotions of frustration and started singing. YES!! I started singing out loud. "Why you gotta be so RUDE?, Imma pick the world up and imma drop it on your fucking head" I sung my way right out of frustration and into mile 1.25.
Mannnn did that hurt to see. I thought I was much further along. Spitting every so often I can start to hear the weezing building in my chest so I try my headphones one more time. Turned them on, " Connected" sweet is all I can think as Andy Grammer's Honey I'm good starts blaring nice and clear. "Winning" I yell and start to push. With 1 mile left to go I head down my 5 mile route and as I hit 2.16 miles I see a dog roaming the streets free and I start running backwards down the road. Okay time to re thing this. I circle around a cul de sac and realize I can head back home. .50 miles to go and all of a sudden techno hell breaks loose.
Bon, Bon by Pitbull was on, I thought until it sped up, like all the way up, then slowed down then went silent. I no longer had the energy to care. With my chest burning, sweat dripping all I could think of was finishing. Then I hear, " You did it. You completed your goal of 3 miles in 34:40.
Sn: With the update to the Nike+ app I'm learning about the training program as I go along. The first week called for a Kick off of 10:min, a benchmark of 15 min and a recovery of 10 mine. As I did my own thing and needed the miles more I ran for 26:36; 22:02 and 34:40 respectively. However because of that it said that I ran 7.78 miles at a pace of 17'45 which is not accurate. As they claim that it will factor into my training within the upcoming weeks I will be stopping time for the training and adding in a separate run to get miles. I'm still working on my training program.
Did you have a long run today? How was it? Anyone else running the Richmond Half Marathon let me know below!
I've run longer but for this training these 3 miles meant a lot to me and couldn't be put off. "Up and at em"... I said to myself as I heard my 3 year old come barrelling around the corner coughing. Well here comes hiccup number 1, off to Walgreen's I go.
I return with the liquid gold, stretched (while listening to my 8 year old tell some story), grabbed my arm band and head phones and headed out. Now I love my MiiKeys Wireless headphones! They were a running gift from me to me when I first started running. My last half marathon I used a different pair of headphones, but upon my return to running in August one side stopped working. So im off, my headphones and I as Lil Wayne picks the world up and drops it on your head I hear, "Out of range."First confusion hits me as my phone is on my arm and the headphones are on my head and there can be no way that it is out of range, as Wayne kicks back in I keep running.
I thought I was in the clear until that British woman yells at me again " out of range" and then again " out of range." Ummm.. this is not going to work. I flashed back to my first half marathon, when my technology crapped out one me. When that Nike voice I was so use to hearing from was silenced, when Spotify lost connection and would not reconnect, I flashed back to those emotions of frustration and started singing. YES!! I started singing out loud. "Why you gotta be so RUDE?, Imma pick the world up and imma drop it on your fucking head" I sung my way right out of frustration and into mile 1.25.
Mannnn did that hurt to see. I thought I was much further along. Spitting every so often I can start to hear the weezing building in my chest so I try my headphones one more time. Turned them on, " Connected" sweet is all I can think as Andy Grammer's Honey I'm good starts blaring nice and clear. "Winning" I yell and start to push. With 1 mile left to go I head down my 5 mile route and as I hit 2.16 miles I see a dog roaming the streets free and I start running backwards down the road. Okay time to re thing this. I circle around a cul de sac and realize I can head back home. .50 miles to go and all of a sudden techno hell breaks loose.
Bon, Bon by Pitbull was on, I thought until it sped up, like all the way up, then slowed down then went silent. I no longer had the energy to care. With my chest burning, sweat dripping all I could think of was finishing. Then I hear, " You did it. You completed your goal of 3 miles in 34:40.
Mile 1: 11:18
Mile 2: 11:23
Mile 3: 11:14
Today's lesson: RUN. Forget the music, forget the pain, forget the voices.. just run! No matter what tries to stop you, no matter how bad it may seem, or hard it may feel, run! Dory said it best... It'll be my mantra for this half, " Just keep swimming just keep swimming."
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| July 2011 when I first bought my MiiKey |
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| May 2016. The earbuds I used for the half. |
Sn: With the update to the Nike+ app I'm learning about the training program as I go along. The first week called for a Kick off of 10:min, a benchmark of 15 min and a recovery of 10 mine. As I did my own thing and needed the miles more I ran for 26:36; 22:02 and 34:40 respectively. However because of that it said that I ran 7.78 miles at a pace of 17'45 which is not accurate. As they claim that it will factor into my training within the upcoming weeks I will be stopping time for the training and adding in a separate run to get miles. I'm still working on my training program.
Did you have a long run today? How was it? Anyone else running the Richmond Half Marathon let me know below!
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