Running & Thinking

Only 8.42 miles to go for April!

I am so impressed with my running. I ran 5.63 miles yesterday. That's the longest distance I have ever run in my life. In. My. Life. I mean, in MY LIFE! And today I'm not sore at all. At the end I was running out of steam but that could also be because my brain knew it was the end. I had entered in my Nike+ sensor 4.20 miles.

As I was running and thinking, I counted up what my weekend mileage goal was supposed to be. I had scheduled 3.10 miles for Saturday and 2.50 miles for Sunday for a total of 5.60 miles. Since I didn't run Saturday (chalk that up to staying out too late Friday but I didn't have any flat tires) I would go into the week behind if I didn't run the total of 5.60 miles yesterday. Then I would run the risk of not making the 40 miles for the month. I didn't have much choice but to run the whole 5.60 miles in one long run. But it felt great! I'm so glad I ran it.

I ate a couple of GU Chomps. One at the 1 mile mark and another at the 4 mile mark. Those little chewy guys gave me lots of energy. I'm sure that's what helped me to sustain the mileage. I'll try those again my next long run. Heck, I might even eat one tomorrow morning at 5:45am before my 40 minute speed run.