Very unofficial 5k Time Trial this morning. I'll try not to drag this report out too long.
Spent all of last night curled up in the fetal position sicker than a dog! Read the first 4 Chapters of Once a Runner and tossed and turned until midnight. Up twice in the night with stomach pain. Kept thinking I would throw up but never did just dry heaving. yuck! (tmi? sorry). Anyway woke up at 7:15 still feeling like crud, stomach in knotts. I aborted all original running plans. I wasn't going to run at all.
Back to bed and woke up at 9am. I felt significantly better and decided I would at least go out and jog. Heck I had big plans for today I needed to freaking do something right? No breakfast was way too afraid of how my stomach would handle it. Ran 3 miles in 25 minutes and felt way better than expected. Decided I would at least try 1 mile repeats. If I didn't feel good I would just quit. No big deal.
6:19 (as soon as this mile clicked I decided I just wanted to get this over with. Didn't want to have to stop and jog and then start over. So 5k Time Trial it was.) 6:34 (holy cow this is hard maybe I do want to quit. Just one more freaking mile you can do it and your done for the day.) 6:23 (focus, focus, focus. You can die when your done). 5:44 (no kick completely depleated and no finish line or fancy balloons.) 3.07/6:24 pace 19:41 This was all ran on the first half of the Payson Onion Days 10k course. First mile is a very slight downhill and 2nd two are pretty pancake flat.
Okay so this is very unofficial becase I accidently knocked my ipod onto the ground (was swinging my arms so dang hard) right after the 2nd mile and stopped for about 30 seconds to retrieve it. Should have just left it and went back. And I accidently stopped my watch at 3.07 instead of 3.1. But despite those 2 things I am still really really happy and this definitely proves that I am in good shape.
Jogged 5 miles afterwards trying to wrap my head around how I am feeling about my fitness, what my Boston goal should be, ect. I felt like I was hardly holding a 10 minute pace but was actually running 8:30 for the cooldown. Amazing how slow you feel like you are running after going fast.
PM: 2 miles easy | 