Happy Valentine’s Day lovers! I have a hot date tonight with the gym and grocery store, I can’t wait! Let’s see, when I last left you on Saturday afternoon I was trying to decide whether to do my long run or push it until Sunday. Well, it never happened on Saturday. Instead the roommates and I sat around drinking mimosas all day. Much more enjoyable than running 6 miles moderately hung over if you ask me.
Saturday night the ladies headed out for the bachelorette party, and I was a complete geek and had a Skype date with Dar. In my pajamas, with wet hair, I looked pretty. In fact, the only time I wasn’t in pajamas on Saturday and Sunday was when I actually did manage to get my ass out the door and run. I had a pretty great run too. Although, yesterday’s long run was a perfect example of why I despise 5k races, and tend to like any run over 3 miles a lot more. This was my train of thought during my 6 mile run
Mile 1: Ugh, I feel like crap. I think my love handles just jiggled over the waste band of my spandex. Gross. Maybe I’ll just call it quits at 4. I hate running.
Mile 2: I wish I had some gum, my mouth is so dry. These stupid pants keep falling down, I should stop and tie them tighter. If I stop I may not be able to make myself start again. I wonder how far I’ve gone. My toes are numb.
Mile 3: Ooooh a water fountain, yes. God damn it, why is it turned off!? Hooray almost time to turn around and head home. Oh look there’s someone with a Philly marathon 2010 shirt, I’m gonna go say hi!
Mile 4: Hey I think I’m going pretty fast. Don’t look at your Garmin, you’re probably not. At least my toes aren’t numb anymore and legs loosened up. My teeth are cold.
Mile 5: Only two more to go! That’s less than 20 minutes, you can totally do this and hey I still think I’m going pretty fast. I am really, really thirsty.
Mile 6: Man I feel great, I am definitely hauling ass right now. Yaaay omglolzrunningisawesome!! I love running outside. F the treadmill. Oh there’s the mile post I started at, let’s kick it up for the finish!
First three miles in 28:09, second three in 24:44. Talk about a negative split huh, and can we just take note of mile 6 for a second. I couldn’t even tell you the last time I ran a sub 8 minute mile. I would have to assume it was in high school, but since I flat out refused to run anything longer than the 400 m race, I can’t be positive. I have no idea where it came from, I’m thinking I really wanted to get home and chug some water. Anyway, I felt amazing during the run, despite the fact that I sat around until almost 1 pm before I finally got my ass out the door. It was a lovely 50 degrees, mostly overcast with a light breeze, a perfect running day.
I laid on my yoga mat in the middle of my living room for about 20 minutes “stretching”, showered, and put my pajamas back on. Then last night I sat and watched the Grammy’s with about 300 of my closest friends. Things I enjoyed, Biebs and Usher, Lady A, Mumford and Sons, and Eminem. Things that annoyed me, having to Google the best new artist winner, Lady Gaga. I won’t bore you with the rest of my thoughts, I was pretty vocal on Twitter. Did you watch the Grammy’s? What did you like/hate?
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