First Week

October 18th, 2010 7 Miles, 52:00, 7:25 Pace
I went for a seven miler and it felt okay. Yes, okay, nothing better, nothing worse. Honestly, I couldn’t expect it to be better than this in any form or fashion. It’s been six months of basically no running, and if I did it was never more than twice a week and probably not more than 4 miles. I couldn’t ask for a better way to start though. Throw on the headphones, and feel the freedom of running once again. I thought that I didn’t really miss it. I was just fooling myself though and it took this run to remind myself of why I do it. I do it for myself, and nobody else.

October 19th 2010, 5.3 Miles, 42:00, 7:55 Pace
Of course, I should have expected this day would be a lot worse than the previous run. I go through these pains every time I start back to run. However, it’s never after six months. It was much worse than a normal second day. But I’ve grown accustomed to the pain that I experience during running, and in a way I like it. I don’t like the pain. But I do like the realization that it provides me with. That we are able to push past limits that we may think that we cannot reach. You can always reach for more. I will touch more on that statement at a later day.

October 20th, 2010, 5.2 Miles, 44:15, 8:30 Pace
Now these are the days that I dread. I feel horrible all day long, and then force myself to go run even if I know that maybe I shouldn’t be doing such a thing. I felt light-headed for most of the run, and then even towards the end I began to get dizzy. Thankfully I never strayed too far from the apartment so it turned out just fine. Dizziness always worries me, and most of the time it happens out of my stupidity and I allow myself to get dehydrated,

October 21st, 2010 3 Miles 18:21, 6:07 Pace
Okay, let me begin by saying that this was in no way meant to be a Tempo, or even any sort of workout. I went for this run without checking the weather, and too much my delight cloud cover was moving in. However, I didn’t take notice that these clouds were obviously thunderstorm clouds. Whoops! Okay, its fine it’s just a bit of lightning and rain. Thank goodness, I didn’t bring my IPod! Wait… What just hit me? Yikes, it’s hailing!?!?

Yes, these were my exact reaction and yes it was dime sized hail. So I raced back home, and got back before the storm got really bad thankfully. Of course it didn’t run a run in what would have been great weather.

October 22nd, 2010 5 Miles, 7:00 Pace
This day felt a bit more like my first day back. However, my hamstrings were a little sore from racing the storm back on the 21st. I know that these first couple weeks back will probably be the worst as long as I moved everything along smoothly. I did just get new shoes, and they felt amazing. Now I just need to get new racing flats, as my old ones are completely shot.

October 23rd, 2010, 8 Miles, 53:35, 6:41 Pace
Had a fairly decent progression run considering that it is only the first week back to the run. Nothing barn burning, and really not fast at all compared to a lot of people. I split 7:31, 7:06, 6:46, 6:37, 6:40 (Whoops), 6:31, 6:30, and 5:50. This is my first sub 6 mile. Hooray! As well as my first run under 7 minute pace, but I’m so far away from my previous shape, and hopefully sooner than later I can reach that 1:11:38 half marathon I ran a surpass that. Can I do it in 4 months before Cowtown probably not but I am trying my best. I also cool downed for about ¾ of a mile which was probably a smart idea, and should have been longer but I was dying!

October 24th, 2010, Flag Football
We had our playoff Flag Football game today! We lost 26-19…. I feel that I played pretty well, I had an interception for a touchdown, and a jump ball that I managed to come down with for a touchdown all within 5 minutes. These two TD’s got the game back to 13-13, However, we struggled like always in the second half and didn’t manage to pull it out. At least it was run. Now to look forward to intramural Basketball where we should do better.

Total Mileage: 34