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Run Like a Girl

Run like a girl. Girl like a run. I’ve been reading other running/training blogs and they have been half inspiring me, half making me feel like crap. How is that possible? I admire them, yet hate them at the same time. Someone is running the TNT 13.1 tomorrow. Someone else is competing in a triathlon. How dare they? Yet, they rock. Completely. To the core.

So, I got on the tread tonight. Good old gerbil wheel. If i were gutsier i would buy reflective gear and run outside…in the dark. What a trip that would be (yea, on my azz!) I got on the treadmill partly out of disappointment so this run was all about working out the negative emotion. A friend and i had justjustjust made plans to see a movie when all of a sudden she remembered she was supposed to see “her man” (a self described ‘fling’). She said she didn’t want to be “that”girl and i believed her. But, i couldn’t help thinking if he were really a fling she wouldn’t have any problems canceling with him to hang out with a friend, me. No matter. I’m cool with it, but that still doesn’t stop me from being disappointed.

So, I ran to erase the guilt i had for not being able to shrug it off. After all, i can admit, i was once “that” girl, too. I found someones training schedule in a recent blog and thought i would try my hand at it (or legs as the case may be):
10 minutes @ 11.5mi pace
15 minutes @ 11mi pace (only my tread doesn’t have 11min exactly so it was 10.9mi pace)
15 minutes @ 10mi pace
5 minutes @ 11.5mi pace

Instead of knocking back to 11.5 after chugging at 10mi pace I slowed down 1 min at a time:
6.0
5.9
5.8
5.7
5.6 where i ended. 4.22 miles in 45 minutes. I used the same playlist as the last run. No big revelation there!