Define Yourself

I need to remember to bring my water belt on my runs for Wednesday, especially as they're getting longer. I am now up to 6 miles on Wednesday, a mid-week run. The longest I'll run is 10 miles by November. Today was warm, 80* and a small amount of humidity (as it's supposed to rain sometime today and it hasn't yet).

I also should get some new insect repellent. A friend had a spray that was pretty neat. When you sprayed it on, it was dry immediately. No stickiness or wetness. Since I run through some woods for part of my run, I need to use it. Today, I have 4 new bites on my back. Ick.

Listening to the Phedippidations podcast is something a bad thing for me on my runs. Today's podcast had a race report from a guy doing a 50 mile race. Listening to Steve Runner read his email, got me all choked up. WHILE RUNNING! Stupid emotions. Anyway, this runner was reading an older issue of Runner's World before his 50-miler and saw this title of this blog and repeated it as his mantra.

I'm not quite sure how I missed this movie. http://www.journeyfilm.com/deankarnazes/. I watched the Spirit of the Marathon and thought, "wow, I definitely want to do this!" I bet that if I watched this movie with Dean, I probably would have decided NOT to do it! HAHA! I did read his book, UltraMarathon Man and I must say, it was a good book. I'm debating getting it on audio so I can listen to it again while running.

Grumpy Old Men is such a good movie and especially moreso now that Walter Matthau is gone.

Categories: 6 miles, mid-week run, Phedippidations, podcast

Long Run: 9 miles

I'm off on my marathon training. I was supposed to run 9 miles last week but I only did a 5k race and then nothing the rest of the weekend. So today was supposed to 10 miles. I decided to go between 9 and 10 miles, whichever I could end up running.

I ate peanut butter & jelly on toast this morning before my run. I took 2 small water bottles with me on my water belt. During my run about the 4.5 mile mark, I ate my SportsBeans. Luckily on the way back, I was empty with one bottle so I filled up with the Gatorade that the running club I belong to and was helping drinking that.

Here's the run ended. 9.58 miles in 1:29:11 for an average of 9:18 min/mi. I need to remember to NOT take standing breaks. Both times I stopped, it was hard for me to get back going again. If I do stop for a break, I need to keep walking, even if only in circles.

I listen to a podcast now while running. I am really starting to enjoy it instead of music. The podcast I listen to is called Phedippidations created by Steve Runner. It's all about running and then in today's episode he talked about CPR. Some of it is done while he's out running himself. So it's good to hear him huffing and puffing while I'm huffing and puffing too! I just figured out last night how to make it so that if I listen to one podcast, it will automatically shift to the next one. It would never do that before. So his podcasts usually lasts about an hour so on my marathon, I should be able to listen to about 5 of them.

I will need to go out and get a supply of Gatorade and bagels and cream cheese for my Saturday runs. Next Saturday has me running in St. Louis! So excited! Gonna run in Queeny Park and Brent's gonna ride his bike beside me!

Categories: 10 miles, 9 miles, Great Western Trail, Phedippidations, podcast