Running Running Running

Coming home after the 5K with the girls, I was so excited about the accomplishment that I started looking for my next race. The girls were planning a 10K back in NV or CA for the end of April or end of May, so I started looking for one near me, so that I could run it at the same time, even though I couldn't run it with them! I was really excited to find one in Pensacola, FL, which is one of Traver and my favorite get away spots when we need to get out of Meridian, on May 1st. Traver and I are planning to run it together and we have a good group of friends from here that are going to do it too! I'm also really excited that a good friend of mine, Vanessa, and I are going to do another 5K on April 17th, and I'm hoping to run it in even better time than the last one! So those are my race plans for the near future, and Ill be posting updates as they get closer, but I am pumped about both of them, although the 10K is still pretty intimidating!

So in preparation for these races I have be running running running! When I first got back I tried to run on a treadmill at the gym and that was a complete disaster, I apparently CANNOT run on a treadmill, I didn't make it .5 mile before my legs started stressing and fatiguing and stuff... so that was an interesting lesson to learn. The rest of the week I was having a really time running distances over a mile for whatever reason, and only made it through my next couple runs with some walking included, which was frustrating knowing that I could run a straight 3 miles. But I finished out that week with a continuous, albeit slower 3 mile run which made me feel a lot better and let me know that I can do this!

The last two weeks have been really good in terms of running, and on my shorter (2 mile) runs I have been making time improvements that have really really exciting! I actually ran 3.5 miles on Tuesday, which was the longest I had ever run continuously and it actually didn't hurt too bad, which was good! But yesterday was by far the best running day I have had yet. I got up early (at least by my standards) and had quiet time with God. I hadn't had a really good quiet time in quite a while and as I spent 30-40 minutes digging into Romans 1 I started to feel really good, really really good! I just had so much excitement over what I was reading and was so pumped up for my run. So I got up, I went out to run my 2 miler, and it was great. I turned on my Ipod to a Christian band I hadn't listened to in a while and started out just thinking about my morning with God and trudged through my run and finished in 20:37, that is 10:18 per mile! I haven't ever been able to run that fast and it was the best feeling I had had in a long time! It was awesome, I was pumped and elated! I'm sore today, but at least I know I accomplished something great yesterday that it makes the soreness so worth while! Now to get through another weeks worth of workouts! WOO!