it feels so good to be back again..

home finally..back to the cold, more realistic weather. today is saturday, and saturdays in training world means long runs. i don't know why they choose saturdays but i was not really looking forward to it this morning.

i woke up at about 8:00am and it was a chilly 47 degrees, i mean i guess thats not that cold for new england. i looked at my training schedule and it said that today would be an hour and a half run. i ran down my street and headed into rehoboth the next town over and further into tauton the town next to that. i glanced at my watch and saw that i was nearing the 40 minute mark so i decided to turn, figuring i would tire out and needed to make up the extra time toward the end of my run. boy was i wrong. as i neared my house i glanced at my watch and saw that i had run for an hour and twenty five minutes, five minutes short of my perscribed time.
i realized today that the adreniline kicks in and you get a second wind after the hour mark, and also the pizza (carbs!!) from last night probably gave me an extra energy boost.

i learned two things from todays run:
1. run the full time.. your challenging your body!
2. carb load the night before long runs.. you'll really need and use the energy the next day!!

oh by the way.. tracked my run 9.23 miles!!!!!! the furthest i've ever ran in my entire life :)