There are a couple reasons to be pumped with this mornings run. First of all it was warm and not raining this morning like I was expecting. Second, Maddie and I ran a personal best time for our 7.5 miles this morning! We finished in 68 minutes and 29 seconds!! And that was with two bathroom stops (for her not me) and 12 street crossings. Now if I can just run the same pace for an additional 6 miles then I will be on track to run a super half marathon on Sunday!!
Recently someone asked me what I think about while I'm running. For the most part I spend my time doing calculations in my head (dork alert!). I can't help it. I am constantly trying to calculate my pace and how much I ran and how much more I have to run and how fast I have to run the rest of my run to finish in the time I am hoping.
Today my head sounded something like this while I was running this morning. "Wow its warm, I guess I didn't need so many layers. I feel good this morning so maybe I will try to kick up my pace a notch and see if I can keep it up for the whole run. Gosh its foggy. Hmmm what would I do if someone jumped out of the woods and tried to attack me right now?? Lets see are there any houses around? I think I would spray him with my pepper spray (you bet I run with pepper spray although usually I am more worried about coyotes than humans). Then I would run the nearest house and/or road. I can't be too far from civilization. I'm just on the bike path." (That went on for about a mile and a half). On to the next topic: "So I have run over 200 miles since January (say 210 for the sake of easy calculations in my head), if you average about 100 calories a mile then I have burned 20,000 calories in the past two months. If 3,500 calories are in a pound then I should have lost 6 pounds! (The calculating didn't happen that fast. It went more like well 3,500 and 3,500 is 7,000 that's 2 pounds and 7 times 3 is 21 so 2 times 3 is 6....6 pounds.) For the record I have not lost 6 pounds haha. Luckily I am running to help find a cure for cancer and not for weight loss!!
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