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October 9, 2006
Sweet PW
So sometimes a PW (or Personal Worst if you do not speak the language of running) is not a bad thing. I ran a 5k on Sunday in about 33 minutes. Which is a PW by over three minutes (over a 5k I ran last year at this time while pacing someone). Now why, you might ask, was Barb reduced to a PW? Did she suffer a dramatic injury? Is her illustrious running career over? Did she gain 100 pounds over the weekend? Well, luckily the answer is no. To all of those crazy questions. The reason I ran a PW this weekend was that I participated in the largest Race for the Cure in the United States and the goal of this race is not to run fast, it is to donate to a great charity and to support friends who have been affected by breast cancer. Honestly it is miraculous that we were able to run at all as usually the race is so crowded that everyone shuffles very slowly. Anyway that was fun. Lots of good free stuff too including about 17 bottles of Propel, which is very addictive and highly delicious.
So that was fun. That was also all of the running I did yesterday - 3 miles at 11 minute pace. Luckily today I came back with 7 miles at 9 minute pace, and on Saturday I had run 10.5 miles at just under 9:00's. I also cross trained for the first time in a little while - 45 minutes on the elliptical yesterday and 20 minutes today. I feel like I am certainly in decent shape right now, and I am so pleased that I have started doing long runs in the double digits again. Now this weekend I hope to increase my long run slightly again, time permitting as it is Matt's birthday weekend. Happy early birthday, Matty!!
Anyway last week was another 50 mile week (okay, I was half a mile short, but close enough), and I feel good! I love running. I especially love running in the fall!
Tonight we are going to the Broncos game to freeze our butts off (we have had a dramatic weather change and today it was 40 degrees and raining all day). Delightful football watching weather. And that is about all the news that's fit to print!
Posted by barb at October 9, 2006 4:24 PM
Comments
Watching the game on tv right now Barb and that DOES NOT look like fun weather. Hope you stayed warm somehow! :)
Posted by: Beth at October 9, 2006 8:02 PM
Congratulations, I guess. ;)
Posted by: 給飛行 at October 11, 2006 11:03 PM