I have been dreadfully tired all day. After I made my late Saturday blog post, I went for a long run. The Utica Boilermaker 15K is one week from today. Yikes! I figured this would be my last really long run before that, so I tried to get ambitious about it. Last Sunday I ran just over an hour, 4.77 miles, which I calculated to be half of 9.3 miles, that is 15K. I just pulled out the calculator app on my Tablet and found I could have stopped at 4.65. Mental math while running is not my strong suit, although I often use it to distract myself.
Wow, what a long first paragraph. I guess I am doing everything too long today.
As usual, I entered.
This was the only picture I could find of a place I ran this morning. I went into the residential area behind Valley Health Services and ran up the longest uphill loop. I went up a couple of shorter hills as well. My idea was to run for five miles, and I made it.
Along the way I petted two nice dogs and refilled my water bottle at the spring. Those were times I actually stopped but not for an appreciable amount of time. I felt at a couple of points that I wanted to stop running and walk, but I pushed through. I feel reasonably ready for the Boilermaker but I confess not eager. Blame that on the Sunday Afternoon Blues.
I question my run.
This is a photo from October 2020. I was doing a challenge of 37 minutes of exercise for 37 days to raise awareness of diabetes. I posted a selfie of Facebook after each session. You can see why I rarely take selfies. I share it today, because this is probably about how I looked after today’s run. I was even wearing the same glasses. I just wanted to include another picture in the post.
I suppose I have made better Running Commentary Posts, but we all know some blog posts are better than others. I will try to do better as the week wears on, but with All Boilermaker All The Time, no promises.
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