So much for my first 10-K...

AFter a very short run to limber up for today's 10-K, my righ tleg was hurting a little bit. Over 10 hours later it's still hurting. So now I'm going to have to do a 5-K walk, instaed of run my first ever 10-K! Aaaaaaaaaaaahhh!

I hope I can still run the half marathon in October....

Legs got very tight today

Today's run of 4.5 miles was cut down to 2.4. My legs were getting tight, and I had to take quite a few walk breaks. There are a few reasons that might have helped me cut my mileage... I was running in 80'F weather in the afternoon, instead of early in the mrning. Also, I was listening to a podcast, Buzz Out Loud, my favorite technology podcast, while I ran.

It's strange, but I think when I listen to my iPod while I run, I don't run as well. Maybe it's because I'm expecting to zone out, and I don't, or I run faster because my mind's somewhere else, I don't know.

The one reason that might make actual sense would be, because I did the 20-mile Tour de Carmel last Saturday.

I hope my legs feel better to get in some decent training before my first 10-K this Saturday.

Buckeye workout stats

In addition to entering my training workouts into the Runner's World Training Log, I am also entering the info into the Buckeye Outdoors Training Log. The Buckeye Log has much better display boxes for blogs, and the RW Log one never seemed to work for me.

So, look for a new box on the right, with my weekly training stats inside.

Running in WI, longest run & week to date

We had a wedding in Wisconsin on the Saturday of Labor Day weekend. We were staying with afamily that has several girls that run. I was going to ask Alisha if she wanted to run, but before I could do that, Melissa asked me if I wanted to go running. It was cool. We started out by warming up on the trampoline. We headed towards the horse barn for our first mile or so that would be mostly on grass and in the woods. It was kinda dumb to do that in the dark, but I made it out with only a few scratches, and nothing twisted. We did that in 16 minutes. We went past the house, the started doing laps around the church parking lot, which is about a mile. I ran with Alisha for the first lap to map out the course, then started walking 20-30 feet per lap to give my legs & feet a break. Our goal was to do 70 minutes, and we did. At the end we sprinted up a short, not-too-steep, paved hill. That felt great! We then removed our shoes, and walked home. It was weird, that's the longest and farthest I've run in my life, and I went the whole way without water. It was a good long run!

That wrapped up my week, and gave my month a good jumpstart.

17.4 miles this week