So I wasn’t running with my eye’s closed but I might as well have been. Late Sunday afternoon I headed out for an 18 mile run. One great thing about the NW is the looooong summer days, sometimes its easy to forget the days aren’t as long as they were a month ago. I headed out at about 5:30 & figured the run would take me 2.5 hours. At about the half way mark it was…DARK & the route I was running didn’t have any street lights. (Oh, and it was raining) There were two things I was worried about, first Harmony thinking she should come looking for me & second I was concerned I would hurt myself running in the dark. Luckily neither of happened. (Special thanks to Harmony for not giving me too hard of a time, I promise to plan a little better)
I felt like I was running a slower pace than the week before but as it turns out I was a little faster. My average pace was 8:09 miles & I finished a little faster than my target of two hours & thirty minutes.
The week before 15 miles went down pretty easy, 18 was another story…it was tough to keep going during the run & come Monday I was pretty sore.
On another note I got a good reminder from Sitter. She mentioned that her Mother has been swimming with a Masters group for a number of years & Mrs. Sitter is one of the nicest people I have ever met. Why the hell am I intimidated to swim with a Masters group?
Photo of Harmony, Mr & Mrs Sitter and Gretchen from Ironman CDA 2007.
One final note, I’m starting to get excited about the Las Vegas Marathon. Harmony had been debating between racing in Seattle the end of Nov. or Vegas in Dec. With the help of a flat course, Sin City won & she’ll also be racing down south.
