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April 21, 2005
Decisions, decisions...
10K or 10 miler on Sunday? I'm torn. Actually, I think I've already made up my mind to run the 10 miler, but it would be so unlike me to not worry about a decision, so I'm worrying about this one. The background: two of my friends had birthdays this week, and they wanted to plan a night out to celebrate. One of them is Jewish, so we couldn't go out on Saturday because of Passover. We all agreed that we would go out on a Friday and--horrors!--skip long run on Saturday. So that's why I was looking for a Sunday race. I was 100% set on the 10 miler until my friend reminded me that there was also a good 10k on Sunday, which a few people I know will be running. I've entertained the 10k idea because it would be more fun to run with people I know, but I definitely don't have 10k speed right now. You can get away with running a 10 miler a little slower and calling it a training run, and I really don't think I don't think I feel like paying $30 for only a 6 mile training run. Plus the 10 mile course is beautiful, and fast. So there. I just confirmed that I made up my mind-10 miler it is.
I ran a fairly easy 8 this morning. At least, it was supposed to be easy, but by the end of it I was running pretty hard. I was stiff from track when I first started out, but by the time I was on my way home I was feeling pretty good, and I wound up running more than a minute negative split. Which isn't huge, but I had to climb a pretty nasty hill on the way back, so I'm pleased. I don't know that I'll still be pleased tomorrow, though-I have a feeling that track might catch up to me by then.
After work I went to the gym for 40 minutes on the bike and some lifting. I usually like to split the cardio between the elliptical and the bike, but I wanted to use different muscles so that I won't be too tired tomorrow--the bike doesn't affect my running legs at all. Plus there was a really cute guy on the bike next to me! Nothing came of it, of course--I guess that dripping sweat is not exactly conducive to romance. ;-)
Posted by jessie at April 21, 2005 10:59 PM