Our training run this weekend was about 2.5 miles shorter than planned. Though I stand by Justin's decision to cut it short due to the fact that he felt like he'd been hit by a truck, I still feel a little guilty. I know I can just throw in an extra three miles sometime this week, but it doesn't quite make it up. It was a beautiful day yesterday and we ran a decent pace but sometimes it just doesn't happen... and when my sweetheart has stomach problems, knee pain, and low energy, I won't push him to make himself sick.
But we did our 8 miles at near the same pace we've been jogging, even though both of our energy levels were flagging. With luck and practice, we'll be able to keep it up. This weekend is supposed to be a shorter run, before we jump into the high numbers on alternate weekends, and I may make it a *touch* longer just to keep racking up distance.
We've got our plane tickets for Amsterdam at the end of March and I just now realized this means we'll be doing one very long run along the dikes of the Dutch countryside. Well, I can't complain. As long as the weather cooperates, it will be beautiful and very scenic-- they've got a great warren of bike paths we can use to our advantage. Alls I have to do is use Wayfaring to plot the route on a Google map. Funny thing is, the last time we ran 19 miles for training, we were in Glacier National Park. We must be destined to run the 19-er in exotic locales!
We had a very busy weekend besides running-- dinner Friday AND Saturday with friends, shoe shopping on Saturday afternoon, saw Eleanor perform at a recital in Wallingford yesterday, and watched two movies... Pan's Labyrinth and Children of Men. Pan's Labyrinth was interesting, but not as strong as I'd hoped. Children of Men was really good. I've got the same complaints as the critics, but I could have kept on watching for at least an hour more. Sadly, as a by-product of movies and shoe shopping I'm now broke, so I must sit on my ass until I get paid on Thursday. Hurrah. :)
Posted on January 29, 2007 @ 10:00 AM | 1 comments
But we did our 8 miles at near the same pace we've been jogging, even though both of our energy levels were flagging. With luck and practice, we'll be able to keep it up. This weekend is supposed to be a shorter run, before we jump into the high numbers on alternate weekends, and I may make it a *touch* longer just to keep racking up distance.
We've got our plane tickets for Amsterdam at the end of March and I just now realized this means we'll be doing one very long run along the dikes of the Dutch countryside. Well, I can't complain. As long as the weather cooperates, it will be beautiful and very scenic-- they've got a great warren of bike paths we can use to our advantage. Alls I have to do is use Wayfaring to plot the route on a Google map. Funny thing is, the last time we ran 19 miles for training, we were in Glacier National Park. We must be destined to run the 19-er in exotic locales!
We had a very busy weekend besides running-- dinner Friday AND Saturday with friends, shoe shopping on Saturday afternoon, saw Eleanor perform at a recital in Wallingford yesterday, and watched two movies... Pan's Labyrinth and Children of Men. Pan's Labyrinth was interesting, but not as strong as I'd hoped. Children of Men was really good. I've got the same complaints as the critics, but I could have kept on watching for at least an hour more. Sadly, as a by-product of movies and shoe shopping I'm now broke, so I must sit on my ass until I get paid on Thursday. Hurrah. :)
Posted on January 29, 2007 @ 10:00 AM | 1 comments
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Long run in Amsterdam. That doesn't sound so bad.
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3:42 AM, January 30, 2007
