9 1/2 weeks down.
8 1/2 weeks to go!
I've reached the halfway point of training! The runs no longer feel like a burden, but are something I look forward to each week.
I'm no longer getting upset if I miss a run because I'm nervous about not training right. If I miss a run now, I get upset because I REALLY wanted to go for a few miles!
The good news: missing runs is happening much less frequently, and all of the long runs are making their way under my belt. This includes last week's 10-miler in 87 degree heat. It was by no means a glorious run, but I did it, and felt better for it.
Probably my favorite run recently was one that normally would have frustrated me to no end. On Tuesday I went out for a 3 mile run with no particular pace goals in mind, but started feeling really good about half way through so I got adventurous and pushed on, looking for a familiar street. Turns out, the street doesn't connect where I thought it does, and wound up running over Highway 101 and into an industrial park along the bay.
The tricky part: I didn't quite realize that the beautiful sunset I was seeing meant it would start getting dark. Fast.
I made it back to familiar territory before requiring the light of street lamps, but certainly learned that I took the ambient light of NYC for granted when I lived and ran there. When it gets dark in Menlo Park, it gets DARK.
The moral of the story: 3 miles turned into an adventurous 5 miles, and my pace didn't suffer all that much as a result. Turns out there's still a lot of joy to be found in running, and it's not always based on accomplishing a particular time, pace, distance or split goal.
Here's to 8 more weeks of that!
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