Cross posted from las blogos del running.
Today we ran 1.5 miles in about 23 minutes. Titus went with us, and was somewhat ornery. He was either lagging behind, or pulling on ahead. His favorite game was to run along with us, then without warning stop and look at something. Amazing what 130 pounds of dog lashed to your arm will do. It will make you forget that your legs hurt, that’s what it’ll do.
Anyway, yesterday was my 28th birthday. Raegan made a lovely birthday cake, with buttercream and coconut frostings. It was very good. Today, about 4 pm, I said, “hey raegan! want some cake?” She said, “sure!” So we had cake and a tall glass of milk to wash it down. We ran at 5 pm. Amazing what cake and milk are like in the first few blocks of a 1.5 mile run. *bleah* But we got through that ok.
All of our runs last week were in the late evening (11 pm – 1 am). This is our first late afternoon/early evening run. It was very warm. I sweated like crazy. But it was great. Raegan and I were both able to maintain conversation throughout the whole thing. I think that’s the objective with all this.
Quote of the run – “It feels like I have two inches of hot air surrounding my body. Where’s the wind, ya know?” Apparently we weren’t running fast enough to make our own.
dude, 1.5 miles in 23 minutes? thats pitiful….
just kidding. im glad you’re stickin with this thing. i’ve slacked this week so far on going swimming…i shall go tommorrow…i got brand new googles begging to get submerged ..
ya, we’re on a 15 min/mile pace. Not gonna break any records, but for walking/jogging, it’s not bad.
I’ll be very happy if we can do a 3 hour half-marathon.