Today we walked down to the park at 1:00 with the intention of staying for a few minutes. It was so nice outside and we ended up getting "lost" there for almost 2 hours. I love nice weather.
Saturday I ran a 5k in 26.58 minutes. And it was hard. I had to take a nap to sleep off the exhaustion. Sadly, I think that is my best time ever it is a 8.42 minute/mile. That sounds so slow to me. There are people that run 4 minute miles...I have never even ran a 6 minute mile. I need to work on my speed. I have had grand intentions on doing so for a few months now, and I keep putting it off...I think mostly because I know it will hurt....But I have never been scared of a little pain, I just need to get 'er done. I did go to curves with my mom last week and did butt kicks and high knees the whole time. That is supposed to help right? What I really want is a running coach. I wish I had taken track in high school, I thought you had to be a good runner to be in track. What I wish I had known back then, is that somebody's gotta lose and it may as well be me since I would be getting free work outs in exchange for my pride.
PS I didn't learn that lesson till college when I didn't have rent money for SUU and I signed up to be an RA in the scary dorms in exchange for free rent and my pride. It was so worth it.
4 comments:
Kristen - how many people do you truly know who do 4 minute miles? Really? 6 minute miles are tough. You did great. I did track and cross country and I never broke the 6 minute mark. And that was in high school when I only had 100 pounds to haul around.
I don't think I could even make it through a 5k without walking- maybe after I finish P90X!
Oh, Kristen! You are so funny! Way to go. You are a hero of mine, you know that? Keep up all this good work!
That's awesome! I'm still only a 10 min mile. I love that we both love running so much! We should run together sometime. Are you going to go to Moab for the 10k in December? That would be fun!
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