September 4, 2012
Well, it may be September but it is still HOT, HOT, HOT! Tonight was cheer practice again. I hit the trail and I've decided that I do NOT like it! One circuit around the whole trail itself isn't a full mile and I don't like that. I like for one round to be a rounded distance....like for instance I know that it takes four times around the track at the high school to run a mile. This makes sense to me. I start in one place, end in that one place and that is one quarter of a mile....four quarters make a whole so four times around is one mile. This is what I refer to as round. The trail has no sense of measurement that I can make of it yet. That sentence didn't come out right....it's kind of like the "timey-wimey, wibbley-wobbley" sentence that the Doctor says got away from in the "Blink" episode of Doctor Who. I guess that sentence got away from me! What I'm trying to say is that once you've made it a mile around the trail, you are now starting from a different position and then you have to go further around to go a mile again so when you start the next mile you are starting from an even further position than when you started in the first place. This doesn't feel neat and tidy to me if that makes sense. Okay...so call me OCD. I guess I am about this. I want to start in one place and be able to make sense of the distance. But as long as we have cheer practice out here I'm stuck with "The Trail" so I will have to figure it out or just deal with it."
No mind tricks tonight. It was hot. I had to walk a little bit because the trail has a hill that darn near kicks my butt every time I run up it. It's a steep slope to start with but then it appears to level out but this is merely a Jedi mind trick because despite what your eyes tell you, you are still climbing. Then just when you think you're in the clear and you've recovered from the hill in disguise, The Trail hits you with another one and you're winded again. And before you know it you're back at the hill in disguise. Toward the end I was done in and I had to walk up the disguised hill. I was just too pooped.
I stopped at a little over two miles and crossed the street to go sit in my chair and drink a gallon of water but just as I sat down my daughter decided that she needed to go to the bathroom. Since the bathrooms are across the street, the cheer coaches don't let the girls go alone so she asked me to take her. I did and when I take her I don't cross to the portapotties. We go to the real bathroom that's further down than just across the road. After bringing her back I was feeling a little rested so I decided that since I only had about a half mile to go to finish a 5k distance (and since I did have a 5k coming up in the very near future....like about four days!) I headed back out onto The Trail again. Once I hit the 5k distance I walked a little bit to cool down.
As you all know I'm not terribly keen on walking as it feels like failure to me and I'm not really big on restarting once I've stopped as that feels like cheating but I'm feeling alright about this run. It was terribly hot out even for evening and this could account for having to walk, especially on hills. I find that when it is hot like that I end up having to walk. So I'm not so upset about having to walk this time. So, all in all, it was a good run.
Here's the numbers: My distance was 3.43 miles. I don't remember what portion of that I ran and what portion was the walk at the end. It took me 53 minutes to complete this run and my pace was 15:19, keeping in mind that this is an average by my Garmin (or the website I post my runs on; I'm not positive which is doing the averaging). I'm finding a little bit of discrepancy between the Garmin Connect and the site I post my runs on. Garmin Connect says my time was 44:30 with an average pace of 12:59 and a best pace of 8:19. While these numbers are much more attractive to me than the previous ones, I'm not going to claim as gospel. I don't understand the discrepancy since both runs were uploaded from the same device, just to different websites. I will have to look into it. At any rate it was a good run and Saturday is the Popeye Annual 5k so I will try to get a couple more runs in before racing day. I want to be ready but I don't want to over do it. I will probably take Friday off to rest.
Happy Running!
KEA
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