10k Registration

I'm now officially registered for my first 10k!



It's a week from Saturday. I'll be running 10k tomorrow, Tuesday, and Thursday on my normal midweek runs, and my goals will now be twofold for each:

* Run negative splits (not those positive ones, as Marcy calls them, hehe
* Run ~9 min/mi the first half and 8:15 - 8:30 mile splits the second half

I'm excited about it. I would love to do a Thanksgiving turkey trot (there are several), but my mother-in-law wouldn't be too happy about not being at her house early. So I'm glad this one's the Saturday before. So now I have a birthday run (my birthday being the Monday following).

I also registered all three kidlets for the fun runs. Gregory (6) will run a mile, Jenny (4) will run 1/4 mile, and Joy (3) will do 200 meters. Mom refuses to run, hehe. It's going to be a fun day!

Someone STOP Me!

The good news is that jury duty is OVER. I wasn't picked to serve, thank goodness.

The bad news is twofold. First, I didn't get to run today. While that's not too bad, the other sort of scares me.

My diet yesterday and today was horrid. Not just terrible, but full-on Greg's 2003 diet. Seriously.



Breakfast was a belgian waffle at IHOP. Oh, I justified it real good. With jury duty happening I had some time in the morning, so I took my son out for breakfast. Just me and a 6-year-old boy, chomping down on stuff that dad had no business eating. At least I had them make the waffle with their harvest nut & grain batter, but still...

Lunch was fish & chips. FISH & CHIPS! Two big, giant pieces of fish with fries to go with them. Holy cow, man, what was I thinking?

That's just it, I wasn't thinking. So after lunch was over, it was time to go on to work. But did I go straight there? My stomach was full, and I knew better, but I stopped at the donut shop and bought a buttermilk bar.

Two miles down the road, the bar was gone, and I was stopped to buy some Diet Dew. Oh look over there, there's some donuts. Let's just be impulsive! Another buttermilk bar.

I know better than this. Absolutely, positively. Look at the running stats, I'm already up a few pounds, so why am I sabataging myself? Unbelievable.

I did get about 100 pages into A Walk in the Woods. And even though I was complaining about it, the food all tasted good. Why must it all taste good? Anyway, that's enough whining and disclosure.

JURY DUTY!

Jury duty today. And tomorrow. No gym. Depending on how it goes tomorrow, I may run. Otherwise, while this picture wasn't taken just now, this is how I feel about the whole affair.


I did get to read about 3 chapters of A Walk in the Woods. So all is not lost.



Hopefully it's almost over.

6-Mile Weekday Run

Today was a 6-mile weekday run. I've altered my running schedule. Recently, I've been running Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday, alternating with gym days Tuesday and Thursday. I was finding that I wasn't going to the gym at all, evidenced by how sore I was following yesterday, continuing into today's run. So now I'm in the gym MWF, with running TThS, giving 3/3. While I've only been to the gym once, I can tell it's going to work out a lot better this way. It also gives me a day's rest from Thursday's run before Saturday's long run.

So today. Yes, I was sore, but I decided not to whine at myself over it and push myself. It seems to have worked out well. In fact, I totally surprised myself in the first three miles.



Splits
Mile 1: 8:26.05
Mile 2: 8:15.92
Mile 3: 8:21.99
Mile 4: 8:56.66
Mile 5: 8:59.55
Mile 6: 9:13.67
.20 mi: 1:49.77

Time: 54:03.61, 8:43/mi pace, 780 calories burned.

I'm happy with today's run, although I suppose it might have been better to have flipped the whole thing, with the slower miles first and fast ones later. Still, looking at the chart I would have PR'ed had I been running a 5k.



I even got cheered on by a 16-year-old girl. Why couldn't I have been cheered on when I was 16? Oh well.