White Shoes, yellow socks and changed goals

Tonight I FINALLY got myself out for a run! After scorching heat in the AM and PM; we finally got a break in the weather and it was a nice cool evening for a run. I laced up my SOLAR WHITES, with my Yellow socks underneath and took off.

Ive found in my new surroundings its hard to get a good distance run in. Now I know a mile is a mile no matter where you run but a mile on a dirt road that is a mile from the previous road is easier to run than a mile that has 13 blocks in between it makes it harder to go any further. Before I could run 4-7 miles no problem -because they were spaced out miles. HERE 2.5 miles seems rough!

THAT is one of the many reasons I have decided, for now, the half marathon training is off my plate. I need to readjust to my new running surroundings and recalculate what I can do and how I can best do it.

IF there is anyone out there reading this, I hope I havent let you down. I do want to keep running for running sake but I have no end goal in my at present.

My stats for today: I have been running for 68 days. In that amount of time I have logged 117.3 miles in 21 hours 31 mins and 16 secs over the course of 31 runs.

Firecrackers, new shoes and old friends

Well, I am almost ashamed to admit this but it took me quite a while to realize that a 4 mile race is LONGER than a 5k. You would think that running for 18 years that I would know the difference between 1k and 1 mile.....but on a run just before my Firecracker 4 mile I was thinking about it and realized...duh a 5k is 3.1 miles and a I was entered to run a 4 mile race...Geesh!

I am proud to report that my search has ended! I bought a new pair of running shoes! They are what I like to call SOLAR WHITE! They are whiter than white but buying anything else would have cost me at least $40 more. I am more cheap than I am vain about color. And because they are white and unpopular they were VERY on sale! I was able to get top of the line Asics that normally retail for $140 for $60 because they are last years model in an unpopular color! And because I saved so much money on my shoes I got a bottle of spray protector and new running shorts ($35 originally on sale for $17!)



Finally, I did run a 4 mile race on the 4th of July. I didnt do that great but I was at almost 3000 feet higher altitude than where I normally live and run (or at least that is my excuse for my performance). I did however, have a great time reconnecting with my long distance running partner (who is about 10 mins faster than I am!).

Todays Stats: I have been running for 63 days. I have run 112.2 miles over 29 runs in 20 hours 32 mins and 49 seconds. I have kaboshed the half marathon for now.