Ahhhh..... That's the sound of relief. I'm relieved that I got my 14 mile run done today. It was causing a significant amount of anxiety! I really felt the pressure to get it done before I moved on to 15. I was actually worried until I passed the point where I threw in the towel on Sunday.
Today is also the coldest day that I've run this year. When I took Sarah to school this morning, the car showed 16 degrees. I don't know what the temperature was when I went out to run two hours later, but I do know that both my water and my hammergels were frozen! I looked like a ninja in my windpants (over my CW-X tights), jacket, and balaclava. With the water bottle holsters strapped around my waist, I can imagine what they were thinking when I stopped in the bank to take off my mittens and try to warm up a gel (and myself).
Today is also the coldest day that I've run this year. When I took Sarah to school this morning, the car showed 16 degrees. I don't know what the temperature was when I went out to run two hours later, but I do know that both my water and my hammergels were frozen! I looked like a ninja in my windpants (over my CW-X tights), jacket, and balaclava. With the water bottle holsters strapped around my waist, I can imagine what they were thinking when I stopped in the bank to take off my mittens and try to warm up a gel (and myself).
The run felt good. I listened to Blue Man Group, which provided a nice, mindless, percussive beat to run to. Then I listened to a heartbreaking story on This American Life. It was about an American Muslim family in the U.S. after September 11 and how their children were treated so cruelly in school by both the teachers and administrators which led to the other school children taunting the Muslim kids. It was very sad. I tried to push harder the last four miles to get my heartrate up a little more. It worked, sort of.
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