AM- Easy 5 miler into River Heights and back. I got beat up last week a little worse than I thought I did. Saturdays long run probably got me the worst, and I was a little sore today. Plus, I was so tired that I could hardly get out of bed, and I didn't feel like running at all. I forced myself out the door for a crappy run. I did run into Paul on my way back, we were heading opposite directions, but stopped to chat for a minute. I never see anyone running for some reason, but the other guys will run into each other quite often. It could be that I am on the opposite side of town from them, but we do run a lot of the same loops and routes, so I don't know? 37:35 PM- I got home from work and Allison wanted me to run with her, so I put Jaren and some waters in the stroller and we went out. It was still really hot and I am used to it, but Allison isn't so I went prepared. She decided a couple of weeks ago that she wants to do the TOU 1/2 at the end of August, and she hasn't done much training. I want her to have a good experience doing it, if she is going to, so I have started to push her a little more to get out the door. She had run a 10k distance twice in the last week and was pretty excited about that. I figured if I were going to go out with her tonight I would make it worth both of our time. I talked her into going longer than 5 miles, but didn't tell her that we were going about 8.5 miles. It sounds mean but I think it helped her to not think about how far she was really going. She did very good and made it the whole way, averaging 10 minute miles. Hopefully I can continue to help her once in a while, and she can have a good experience in that race. She has never ran before other than two 5Ks that I signed her up for when we first got married. She is athletic, and played soccer in High School. She just hasn't done anything since our son was born, and she kept alot of baby weight on. I am glad that she is interested in exercising again, and that she has a goal to shoot for. I never thought that I would see my wife run a half marathon, especially if she wasn't kicking a ball the whole way, so I am excited for her. It was a super slow pace for me, but with all the extra messing around I did with my son, and pushing the stroller, it wasn't a super easy run! And miles are miles to me.
(Hurricane-400 miles) | 