Still catching you up on March and some of April...
I ran my first post baby race on 10 March. It was the Shamrock Shuffle and I managed to knock it out in 34:14, that is an 11 minute pace people! With a baby that was under four months old, I felt like I was doing something! Plus you see that little leprechaun I ran with? Yeah, I had to DRAG him for about a mile... There was a lady that fell behind us with a basset hound and little Gizmo decided that he wanted to go back and play with the damn thing. Talk about an upper body workout!
In other news, we are running a ½ marathon in less than a
month. We’ve been training for about
four weeks so far and our farthest run has been 8 miles. We’ll run ten this
coming Sunday. I have to admit that I don’t remember it being this painful the
last time I trained for a ½ marathon. I am sure that it was just as difficult
but the added weight from pregnancy, the lactating breasts, the change in body
composition, and having not run for a year have made this reintroduction a
little daunting.
I have incorporated speed work throughout the week during my
short runs and am happy to say that on I am running faster than even before I
had the baby (at least on the treadmill). I did happen to run my fastest 5k the
other day with Travis, though it wasn’t an actual event, just clocked on my Garmin.
You see, I am a 10+ min miler… I am a “slow” runner. Because I am so slow, I have had a running
battle in my mind about whether or not I can actually call myself a runner. (No
pun intended) I know that I am not the only person to have this inner battle,
Callie has written about the same topic. However, I have come to realize that I
AM A RUNNER, I manage to get off my couch when I don’t want to, I put on my
running shoes even when I’d rather be eating cake, I hit the pavement and move
my feet, and I am doing more than the person that doesn’t do it. I am not going
to win any races and probably won’t win any awards (though I love to collect
those medals, and I’ll wear it like I won the race), but I am going to win the
battle against my lazy self. I will not let that inner voice that says, “you
aren’t a real runner, you can’t complete the distance, who are you kidding?”
take over. Nope, I am going to beat that girl down because who likes a Negative
Nancy? NOT ME!!!
Do you have to battle your inner Nancy?
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