I'm really excitted about my run today. I didn't go first off this morning because I wanted to wait till it got a little warmer outside. But then as always when I put it off I find myself talking myself out of going. Well somewhere inside the running me found myself in running shoes and out the door! I think I waited till it was almost to warm because instantly I was warm, but I got going and things felt pretty good, not great but good. I knew that in order to meet my weekly goal, because I was a slacker yesterday that I would have to do 5 miles today and then 6 tomorrow or the other way around. I was leaning to the 5 today, but when I was headed towards home it I realized that I could split and do 5.5 each (duh!) But anyways... I hit a ever so slighty down hill section (when I'm going up it, it doesn't seem ever so slighty uphill, but what ever?) I was feeling pretty good and decided to push it a little. When I got to the end of the road I was around 9:00 per mile (that's fast for me) So I backed of shortly after and recovered a bit and then pushed again. By that time I was to my house and pretty thirsty and ready to quite around 5 miles. I decided to get a fast drink out of the hose and at least hit 5.5. The water helped a ton and I kept going and found myself pushing it on the same section as before. When I got home to my surprise I had been doing pretty well the whole time and my times went like this 9:21, 9:23, 9:41, 9:30, 9:46, 9:39 avg. time 9:33. I know that's nothing to brag about but for me that's pretty good! But the best is yet to come....(DRUM ROLL) NO ... hip pain or PF pain the whole run!!!! I don't know what the difference is but I'll take it! I haven't ran 6 miles pain free for months!! I'm pretty thrilled! If I can eliminate pain I think that I can start to push myself a little more! I'm really thinking the new shoes must be helping but because things have been so irritated in there that it's taking some time to heal up (I HOPE!!!) But I'm icing right now and going to do some leg work outs next. Maybe I'll even feel like doing 6 again tomorrow!!! Happy running and Happy weekend!!!! | 