Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Day 35 (9/20): 5 miles / 44:53

So, after just posting that my next mileage increase wasn't for another week, I feel the need to explain my mileage increase today.  Truthfully, it all comes back to that damn treadmill...

With my husband out of town the rest of the week, I will have no choice but to run on the treadmill on Thursday.  The training schedule calls for 4 miles today and 4 Thursday and the idea of 4 more miles on that stupid thing is already irritating me.  So, I decided to run 5 today and 3 on Thursday... same weekly mileage, but with the added benefit of fewer miles indoors.  Of course, it didn't hurt that I was itching to see how it would feel to go longer than 4...

And it felt amazing!  Don't get me wrong, I was tired when I was finished.  But, somehow, at the same time, I also knew that I could go further.  Which, is a really good thing considering how much further I'll have to go before all is said and done :)  I think that's one of the reasons I'm always so excited to increase my distance... it's a great feeling to reach the end and know that I still have a little something left.  I don't imagine I'll feel that way after 26.2, but as long as I still feel that way at 26.1, I should be in pretty good shape :)

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