Longest Run in 2 Years!!!

Yeah!  So, we set out today to run a 10K today (6.2 miles) and along the way I had to pee.  Unfortunately I was right in the middle of my run...hmm...what to do?  Well fortunately I kept my wits and my iphone with me.  Facebook app.  Kristen, my friend, who I've never actually met in person (but we have kids the same age and chat all the time on Facebook, on BigTent--we're in a mommy group together, etc), lived up the hill.  Phone number--yes.  At this point I haven't even stopped running--another reason why I love my iphone (this is completely unsolicited praise, they don't pay me folks, but if they want to, I would happily accept!).  I call super-mom Kristen who has just put out her gourmet carved pumpkins (can I patent that?)...she's home.  I can come use her bathroom.  I feel like a complete ass! 

So, when I say she lives on top of a hill, I mean a steep hill.  A STEEP hill, I'm not kidding.  It's like a San Francisco-esque hill, and then you get to the top....and it keeps going up!  We ran a little of it, but mostly kept our heartrate souring with just walking up this steep hill!  When we left sweet-Kristen's house we actually ran through a rock quarry and added a bit of mileage! 

On the way back to our car our legs felt like jello.  I hadn't run 7 miles since the marathon 2 years ago.  No, I didn't do the marathon.  But I did watch it on TV and went to the gym and ran 7 1/2 miles without stopping on the treadmill as I watched.  To this day I hold that day in history up as my pinacle of fitness.  So perhaps I've turned a corner?  Jello legs and all?!  Oh, also my arms (not the bi-cep, not the tri-cep, but the part right in between, which is probably technically the bi-cep) are feeling VERY sore these days--all that swimming!  So...all in all it's been a successful week in Jennifer-fitness-land.  Tired, sore, but not injured, perfect!  Now, if only it weren't Halloween, & we didn't have a houseful of candy and the mother-in-law hadn't just made a sh!tload of unhealthy, fat-ladened, food.  I know, I know, I can make a veggie burger and not eat the candy....and I will.  Sometimes I just like to bitch. 

Anyway...Happy Halloween & I hope y'all have productive, energizing workouts this weekend!

Comments

[wii spiele]

Hi,
It is unbelievable that you run 10 km in the time of 2 years.But I really admire your effort to run such long distance.I hope you get in perfect shape soon.