18 good miles

I ran 18 miles this morning and I'm amazed.. amazed at the fact that I ran 18 miles!!! And amazed that it didn't feel all that bad! It's 4:00 in the afternoon, I'm awake, beer in hand and just chillin'!! Awake is the key word here!! Of course, check w/ me about 9:00.. I'm sure I'll be sawing logs!!

OK... here's how it went: Of course it is Saturday which these days is synonymous with rain so I checked email and no 'no running' emails were seen so I figured I better get out there and GO!
Dropped off water at about the 1/2 way point, came back and by then it was really raining pretty hard so I decided not to run to LLCC to meet up with the girls but too just drive there. Without runing, I'd have an extra twenty minutes at home to wait out the rain..And it worked!! 6:00 came and it was done raining.. Kathy H, Kathy F, Patti T and Jill R all were there this morning. They were doing 9 miles, the crazy one was doing 18.. OH, that would be me. It was good to have Jill back running w/ us. Hasn't been in a quite awhile but she's doing Abe's and is doing great!! You did great out there Jill !! And you look great too, by the way! :-)

It wasn't near as humid as last week, the sun was hidden behind a thick layer of clouds and we were all thankful for that! Everybody did good w/ the 9 miles! It was quite a jump up from the usual 6!! YEAH FOR YOU GUYS! Headed out into uncharted territory (all the way up 11th) and then all the way up North Cotton Hill almost to I55...We all agreed that was a very pretty area.... nice and woodsy!! Finished up the 9 miles w/ everybody, then headed back home which took an additional 2.5 miles..

Tag you're it! Kevin and Kaiden were ready to go when I got home so we headed right out for 6.5 more miles.. It rained a little on us a couple of times but it felt good and kept us cool. Finished 18 miles still standing and feeling pretty good.. tired, but good. Thankful that I did the 18 miles feeling good, and thankful that it was DONE!

Tried my lemonade Accelerade this morning and it wasy pretty yummy!! Now the GU is getting old. It just so sickening sweet and by my 3rd one this morning I was having a hard time getting it down... bleh. Brought a protein energy bar w/ me to try eating on my run, but didn't get to it and well, by 15 or so miles it would have taken waaaay to much energy to get it out of my back pocket and tear it open never mind attempting to actually bit and chew it.. Next week it's 12 miles so I'll try it then.

I took a couple of walk breaks so the overall pace on the Garmin said 11:02, but my avg running pace otherwise was probably right around 10:30, looking at all the laps.. I'll take that! My goal is 4:30 which is 10:18.. whether or not I make that.. I don't know.. just finishing it strong would be cool.

Tried out the new WigWam socks and I like them.. they did very nicely however I was one run to late. Thursday morning after I got back w/ my 5 miles, with cotton socks.. my bad! (So I'm saving the good ones for real long runs!!) I had a blister.. Dang!! Not a terribly bad one, but it's still a blister. Nursed it for 2 days and used a bandaid this morning and it was OK.. Maybe I should invest (those things are $10 each!!) in a few pairs so I can use them on every run... hmm.. I should probably consider that..

Tomorrow is going to be a fun day! Chris is having another LPGA party at her house and they are always fun... A little hot to be standing out on the course watching the golf, but that's OK.. the real party is back at the house anyway!

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