Bright and Early

Day 20
Swimming
6 miles at 9:57/mile pace (from yesterday)

I was a lot nervous going into this morning's run. For starters, Wade had to be at work at 7:30 this morning--leaving at 6:45--and so I called Christina to see if she would want to run with me at 5:30. I was expecting her to laugh and say something along the lines of "um...no", but being the good sport that she is, she agreed to the insane hour.

I couldn't sleep because I was so nervous I was going to miss my alarm and also, the bad sunburn on my legs kept waking me up when the sheets would brush up against it. Grrr...I was really nervous that I wasn't going to be able to run.

However, I woke up and after a bout of stiffness, I was able to move just fine. I arrived at Christina's right on time and we took off, noting that the moon was still in the sky.

I commented after we were done that it doesn't feel as bad as I'm expecting to be racking up the miles. You know, like at a 5k, 3 miles seems forever, and you wonder if 3 miles is so long, then what's six miles going to be like? But the miles just seem to go a bit faster the more you have to run.

Though it's still not any easier.

We managed to stay RIGHT on target with an overall average of 9:56/mile. The first mile we did in 9:54, the second in 10:03, the third in 9:50, the fourth in 9:59, the fifth in 9:56 and the sixth in 9:57 for an overall time of 59:38, the first time either one of us has run 6 miles in under an hour. Wahoo. For me the hardest mile was the fourth. It wasn't particularly physically hard, just mentally knowing that there were still two miles to go, I guess. Overall, it was a good run and it was nice knowing that at 6:30, we were done instead of just getting started. I'm in no hurry to move to a 5:30 am run date by any means though.

At swimming lessons today, we took turns doing our laps. It was pretty uneventful. The goal was 20 laps and I'm not sure how many I did. Either 21 or 19. I lost track somewhere in the middle. In fact, I may have even fallen asleep at one point. I don't remember a lot about it. Christina thought she had one lap left when they blew the whistle for everyone to get out of the pool at 2 pm for 10 minutes. I'm just glad we're back on track with our training.

I wonder how Hillary's doing?