Excitement & Frustration

Ran 2 miles
Walked 2.5 miles

Today Sully and I met up with Courtney (from the Mom's Run This Town running group) for a 2 mile run. I was incredibly excited because I ran under a 12 minute mile for the first time in I don't even know how long. I have had a few runs in the past couple of weeks where I was on track to run under a 12 min mile, but would always come up short finishing in 12:15, or 12:30. Today we ran our first mile in 11:52! I know that this isn't super impressive, but I am proud of it. In the past, I have focused on increasing my distance - right now I am trying to work on my speed. Ideally, I would like to be at or under a 10 minute mile.. I'm moving in the right direction! The frustration was of COURSE that I had to stop and walk. I had to walk for a minute at about 1.11 miles, and then again at 1.75 miles (that stop I probably COULD have pushed through since we were only .25 miles away, but there was a hill and I just couldn't.do.it! My plan is to not increase my distance over 2-3 mile runs until I'm down to a 10 minute mile. I also really need to work on hill work.

I get really mad at myself when I have to stop and walk - but especially when I am running with somebody else if I make them stop running. It's weird because I know that if I weren't the one needing to stop, that I wouldn't be upset with the other person, but I can't stop beating myself up when I'm running with somebody else and I need to stop! It's already bad enough that I'm a super slow runner.. GEESH! I hate feeling inferior! 

The 5.6 mile charity run is coming up on Sunday. I'm fairly confident that I will not be able to run the entire thing -- but I am not planning any official walk times..  I'm just going to go and see how my body feels. I'm really excited because Savannah is running it with me. We've only been talking about doing a race together for 8 months now! I'm happy that I can do this one with her considering it is meaningful to her. She is a police officer in a town pretty close to the one whose Chief was killed in the line of duty. I believe some of the officers in her department knew Chief Maloney. 

In other news, I finally made a decision about the gym. I am going to leave my current gym and join the YMCA. I looked at the classes and found a good 5 classes a week that I can make. I made up a mock exercise schedule including runs, group classes (mainly spinning with one yoga class per week -- if I end up liking it) and also weight training. I really think that this is something that I can make work and I am super excited! I'm going to go to my current gym tomorrow to notify them of the cancellation, then hopefully next week I'll be able to sign up for the Y. :)

I weighed myself in today and was excited because I am back down to where I was a month ago at my last dietician appointment before I went all crazy for 3 weeks and ate whatever I wanted. I need to try and remember this tomorrow at the Olive Garden.. must.resist.lemon.cake!! 

I'm looking forward to starting the "Run Everyday" challenge again soon! I'm definitely on the mend and feeling almost back to normal -- besides this nagging cough...But, I'm not sure yet if I'm going to run tomorrow or not, because of the race on Sunday I may just go for a walk with Sully.