Yesterday evening I went for my next run. Normally I don't run on Sundays, but to prepare for the 5K race two Saturdays from now, on April 14, I decided to change up my running schedule starting this week.
I really had to push myself this time. It was much warmer, and apparently I don't handle heat all that well. But this new much less wimpy girl dug deep and was willing to risk going too far. My legs were tightening up and I was really hot.
At about a mile and a quarter, having had to push myself as it was, I had to literally say to myself, "Run to the next mailbox," and I'd run to that one, then the next one, and so on until I just didn't think I had any more in me. Then I saw the canal bridge ahead and said to myself, "Now run to that canal bridge. C'mon, you can do it. Just to the bridge," and when I got to the bridge, I told myself to run to the end of it (that happens to be a particularly wide canal), at which point I stopped to walk and felt like flopping over into the grass, but of course kept walking, and tried to keep my walking at a fast pace until I was ready to run again.
My goal from here to Race Day is to cover an entire 5K distance each time I run, even if I have to walk part of it. All total, I wound up running 2.4 miles, and walked only .7 mile. Progress!
Sometime this week I plan to run the route of the race. I may have to do it with my daughter in the stroller since she is off from school for Spring Break and it is too far away to go do it before my husband does to work or even after he gets home, but it's a flat and mostly straight route, so it shouldn't be too hard.
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