8 miles

Running is getting harder. I don't know if I'm just running out of steam, or if it's the weather warming up or what's going on, but it seems like running is a lot harder now than it was two weeks ago. I ran 8 miles on Saturday (It's now Friday night, I'm looking forward to tomorrow's 9) and it was probably the most interesting run I've had to date. It started out hard, like all of my runs do, and after a mile I was telling myself to turn around after two miles and just do half. So I pushed on through the second mile and by the time it was done I was thinking I may as well go three. So I did that, and about halfway through the third mile it started to rain pretty hard, so I told myself I'd turn around at three miles and head back. By the time I go to the end of the third mile it had stopped raining mostly, and I was feeling really good by then so I just kept going. By this point I felt like I could do the half marathon right then. Right before the fourth mile it started to rain again, and this time it was coming down quite hard. Running in the cool rain felt great, just really great. It rained most of the way back and only let up for the last mile or so, and by the end of the run I was tired but feeling pretty refreshed from the rain. Then my iPod chimed in that I had finished the run, and when I ended the work out it informed me that my pace was under 11 minutes per mile, which is my goal for March. So then I felt really good about myself. April is almost here, and the April goal is to get my time under 10 minutes per mile for the Lincoln Marathon, which is the first weekend of May. MacPractice, the company I work for, is paying the registration for the four of us who are entering the half marathon and getting us some running jerseys. Exciting stuff! My midweek run was really tough, but I realised after looking at the run data when I got back that I started off way too fast and it made more sense that I was really tired. Now I'm tired because it's getting late and Sam is sleeping on my chest, which always makes me want to zonk out too. I think I'll do that now...