Archive for July 19th, 2008
Run for Central Park, 4 Miles
just got back from finishing the 4 mile Run for Central Park. It was hhhhhhot today, and so today’s lesson was to hydrate at the early stations and don’t worry about the few seconds that you lose. i skipped the first two and immediately got nervous after passing the second. i know that i can go further than 4 miles without water, but the conditions in a race are so different than when i’m doing training runs around my neighborhood. but i’m ok now, and as i said, it is the lesson that i learned today.
the truly exciting news is that i took some serious seconds off my average pace per mile and i feel really fucking great about that. i have been averaging 10:21 per mile for several months (which by the way is really fucking good and i am very proud of it and would probably be satisfied if i ran that pace for the rest of my life,) but i’ve been wanting to get it down, my goal would be 10:00 (though right now i’m struggling with wanting to do speed work and NEEDING to do stamina work.) BUT – today i finally made progress and got the average down to 10:03 and i feel so fucking good about that. the first mile was 10:22, second 9:44, third 10:23 (and that’s the one where i stopped for water), and the fourth 9:47. it’s an amazing feeling when you see that your training has paid off. because i’m the kind of person who will kind of blindly stick to a training program (or a singing thing or a weight loss thing or whatever) and just do the work do the work and not worry too much about quantifying it as i go. so then when i actually measure progress, it’s always kind of amazing to see the progess. i’m very proud of myself.
i did not cheat
nor did i lure a married man down that ridiculous path. we had a fabulous dinner and a really great time. i am so glad that i’m spending time with IP and CD because they totally rock. and it’s tough to make friends in this city, especially quality friends who bring you up. very happy about this right now.
