Our first team practice! 6:30pm and a 20 minute drive from my house. Our training schedule looks pretty easy thus far. We do cross training two days a week (I plan to do yoga and kickboxing) and run 3 days a week, to total 6 miles this week. After a long day at the office, I was not exactly excited to head out for my run today. I ran home, grabbed clothes and went to meet Kate and Michelle at the park. Good thing I was meeting them, because I May have been tempted to stay at home.
Everyone we met was very friendly and encouraging. I like that I kept hearing, “run your own pace, you don’t need to worry about anyone else’s time. do your best.” I’m a pretty slow runner, so I’ve been nervous about that part. It’s good to know that our trainers just want us to do our best. For some reason that really touched my heart today. Our mentor and coach are both great. Dinah is very upbeat, personable… when she runs with me, it makes me Want to do my very best. Maybe that or I just don’t want to look like a wuss, but either way, it encourages me J. Jess is also great and cheered for us each time we finished a lap. I feel bad for her though, she was going to run this marathon, but got in a terrible car accident a few weeks ago and now her foot is in a cast. Hopefully, she’ll be all healed up in time to still train and run or at least walk.
I went into today thinking we were doing 1 mile. That’s what the schedule said. I wasn’t prepared for 3. Notes for the future, I should drink a Lot more water before afternoon practices and eat less. About halfway through mile 2, I thought I was going to vom and began questioning my sanity for signing up for this marathon. However, coach Dinah wouldn’t let me quit and kept pushing me all the way through mile 3. I did it! Whoo hoo!
Is it weird that after I finish running, all I can think about is Food… yum yum yum. Especially, Pizza. That sounds Delish after a long hot run. Haha, I’m a fat kid at heart.
One thing we heard today that caused our hearts to sink is that we can’t run with headphones during the marathon. What?!?!?! No loud booming music to zone out to?!?! No Braveheart that I planned to download to my ipod because the battle scenes really pump me up and make me run faster – like a Scotsman on a mission to fight for my freedom?!?! No tour guide audio that I was going to use to tell me all about San Fran while I run slowly past different sites?!?! I could see on both their faces, they felt the same way I did. I think I function well during these times. When other people are down it makes me want to be annoyingly upbeat on their behalf, so I quickly snapped back into things. I turned my whining and complaining into: “It’s ok, we don’t need music, we can talk or even better, I will learn 5 hours’ worth of music and sing to you both the whole time!” They didn’t seem too excited about that last part… wait till they realize I’m serious J. In all reality, we’ll be ok, it’s just going to take some getting used to.
Ahhh, practice number 1 – donezo
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