Well…way early this morning, I posted about how on Friday night
I had made a statement that I planned to do some sort of exercise yesterday…but,
I didn’t. Last night I made the same
statement about today. I was meeting up
with Mark this afternoon for some Indian food and a trip to the new Austin
Aquarium at 2pm. I didn’t get to bed and
asleep until after 5am because at the Christmas party last night I drank 2 cups
of Starbuck’s coffee and I haven’t drank any coffee for about 2 weeks. Oops. So,
then I finally got to sleep, but then I really couldn’t stay that way. I had set my alarm for 11, but was wide awake
at 9…I laid in bed until about 9:30 and said forget it and got up. While this did not bode well for me for the
day as a whole, it did bode well for me actually doing what I said I was going
to do today…go and run 3 miles.
So, at 10 past 11 this morning, I started slipping on my
running gear. I had checked the temp and
it was 47° out. A little chilly. But, there was the potential of warming up
and needing to remove my long sleeved shirt, so I put on my red tank top that I
bought to wear to run the RNR half last month and pulled one of my running
pullovers with the thumb holes over the top.
The running capri tights I picked to wear today were a little tighter
than the last time I wore them (hello, I’ve gained about 10-15 pounds since I wore
them last), so for the first mile I kept having to pull them up until they
stretched out a little bit and were no longer trying to squeeze my legs out of
them like toothpaste from a tube. I filled
my water bottle. I put my new Bluetooth earphones
on and them put my sunglasses on over the top of them to hold them in place a
little better and then turned on the Bluetooth connection on my phone and then
turned on the music. Then I headed out
the door.
It was nice to just slap on my Garmin 10 and not have to
worry about strapping on the heartrate monitor that goes with the 210. My Garmin took its time finding a connection,
but by the time I was done with my warm up, it had finally found one…YAY!
I had put my phone in one of my running storage belts. As I ran, there was a little bit of cutting
in and out with the music, but the earphones never actually lost their
connection so the music never paused. Hooray!!! The sound quality was awesome. I loved that if I wanted the music louder or
softer that I could just reach up to my left ear and click the up or down
button to accommodate that desire. Also,
if I decided I didn’t want to listen to the song that was playing, all I had to
do was reach up to my right ear and click the skip button and voila it skipped
to the next song! So fabulous! There’s no way I’m taking these earphones
back. I love them!!!
So, I ran a little slower (but not by much) than I did when I
ran the Brown Santa 5K two weeks ago. I did
3 miles flat in 31:13 where I ran the 5K in 32:13 (and I’ve noticed that all
the races I run seem to add an extra 10th of a mile…so the 5K wasn’t
3.1 miles, but 3.2 miles). During my
first half a mile this morning, I felt really good and even thought about
making it a 4 mile run instead of a 3, but quickly cut that idea down by
telling myself that I don’t need to push myself too much and that 3 miles was
just fine. And it was. I was ready to be done in the last half
mile. I had to pep talk myself through
that last half mile. But I did it! I didn’t stop!
A quick overview of my emotions surrounding today’s
run. As I was making the walk up to the
front of my apartment complex and before my warm up, I started getting really
excited. I wanted to bounce and dance
around and squeal with delight at the fact that I was about to go for a
run! When I was done with the run and
walking back to my apartment before stretching out, I got overwhelmed with
emotion and started to tear up. It felt
so good to run today. It was like seeing
an old friend again that you didn’t realize you missed as much as you did until
you saw them and then you cried like a baby!
Haha! And then, of course, post
run, I just had a nice runner’s high like I was floating on a cloud!
Nice!
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