September 23, 2013

This week in running: week 2

I had another craptastic week of running. Darn you, Summer (or the Summer-like Fall weather)! Go away.

Monday

Since I missed my running group on Sunday, I made up my long run miles on Monday. I started off saying I’d run 8 miles. It went down to 6 before I started. I ended up with 5 miles. I’m just not great at running by myself. In fact, I’m pretty darn terrible at it. I just never got into a groove on this run. I’d go fast, then slow, then really slow (as in walk). I basically repeated this the entire time. Bah.

5 miles
1:03:02


Tuesday
After waiting out the rain, our group finally headed out, and I managed to get in a decent 2 miles. Definitely not as far as I hoped, but I was happy to get in any miles. I was afraid I’d end up with zero and have to run by myself again … yikes. These 2 miles after the rain were actually pretty sweet. It felt a little cooler after the rain, and my pace was closer to what it used to be … before the surface of the sun temperatures hit. It actually gave me some hope for a decent 5K on Thursday.

2 miles

22:00
Job hazard: red pen on the hands

Thursday


I ran my first race since May on Thursday. It was such a fun race (recap to come this week), and I had a fabulous time (as in my time there, not my time for the 5K). It wasn’t the 5K time I wanted, but I really didn’t expect to see anything great with this race. I’ve struggled all summer and with this race being in the summer, I knew realistically that an under-30-minute 5K was probably not happening. I momentarily forgot this during the first half of the race, and I was completely miserable. 

3.1 miles
33:21

I thought the rain might make my run awesome like it was on Tuesday.
I thought wrong.
Do you run by yourself or with a group? Have to have it one way or the other or can you do both? Is summer running miserable for everyone?

3 comments:

  1. I totally understand where you are coming from. I used to running 100% by myself. But after I started running with people, running by myself is just so much harder.

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  2. summer running is miserable!!!!!! im so happy its fall and im ready to rock out my headlamp!

    Melissa

    www.theredheadedrunner.com

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  3. Trying this again... I actually run better alone. Even when hubby and I run together, we only start together as we run at different paces. I feel like if I run with other people, I won't be able to keep up. We can't all have good weeks, it's just about pushing forward. :)

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