Friday, October 28, 2011

Day 57 (10/27): 3 miles / 25:05

I hate to admit it, but I'm a bit disappointed in my run today...

I decided to try something a little different with my treadmill run today.  First, I decided I was going to run these 3 miles as fast as I could.  This meant starting at a much faster pace than I'm used to starting with and keeping it for as long as possible.  The second change was to do it without my ipod.  As much as I love the distraction of music, I really wanted to focus all of my thoughts on running... an attempt to motivate myself as I ran instead of waiting for my music selection to inspire me.  My first two miles started out great, but just past the 2 mile mark, I wasn't sure I could hold on any longer.  I suppose my large dinner could be to blame for that.  But, for the first time, I actually had to bump the speed setting back down for a few minutes.  It may have been an unrealistic goal, but I was really hoping to run in the 24's.  Unfortunately, with my reduced speed, I just wasn't able to pull it off and ended up just over 25 minutes.  I suppose I shouldn't be too disappointed with an 8:22 mile pace, but if I'd held my original pace just a little bit longer, I really think I could have finished 6 seconds faster.  I suppose that just gives me a goal to shoot for next time.

In addition to that, I actually found it interesting to run without music again... it had been some time since I'd done that and I kind of enjoyed talking myself through my run.  Although, I suppose a few negative thoughts in there could also be to blame for my decision to slow down.  Nevertheless, I felt pretty upbeat throughout the entire run and it was probably good for me to spend 25 minutes focused on one thing.  Hopefully next time I shoot for this goal I'll only have to spend 24 minutes focused on one thing :)

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