Goal: 2 miles – Reality: 2.02 miles / A Nice “Easy” Run

I still laugh every time I write the words “easy” and “2 miles” in the same sentence. When did I ever think 2 miles would be “easy” for me? It’s still not easy by any means, but I do feel slightly less like I’m going to die when I only do 2 mile runs now. I’ll call that progress!

It was actually a pretty uneventful run today (hooray for an uneventful run every once in a while!).  It was supposed to be an easy run day today in training. I wouldn’t go as far as to say it truly was easy – what with the 8,000% humidity and all. But it wasn’t awful. It could have been easier, but I wanted to take advantage of the short distance to work on my speed, and I actually got my pace up to 10’40″ on today’s run – my fastest pace yet!

Of course tomorrow is another 4.5 mile group run with my fellow Team in Training members, which is always a nice blow to the ego, so I’m trying to mentally prepare myself just to leave my pride in the car when I set out for the run tomorrow night.

Time to regroup and prepare as best as possible:

• I will eat well tomorrow.
• I will drink plenty of water all day long.
• I will eat approx 400 calories of whole grains and easily digestible food tomorrow pre-run.
• I will finish 4.5 miles strong tomorrow, even if I’m running alone in the back of the pack.

I will finish strong.
(and hopefully without the search and rescue team this time!)

Keep on running!