Midweek Run - 6.2 miles

Hello everyone, life's getting back to normal after the jury duty. Not being picked to serve on the jury was a good thing, I'm back to eating normal now. Thank goodness, I don't think me or my body could handle two weeks of no gym, no running, and bad food.

6.2 miles today. I tried to watch my pace more closely and do the negative split thing, but I sort of lost it towards the end. Not 100%, but my pace certainly wasn't where I wanted it in the end. I'm getting closer though. My goal was 9 minute miles the first half, and 8:30 the second. Coming off the freeway during Mile 3, though, gravity took hold and I pushed a little too hard a little too early.



Splits
Mile 1: 8:56.22
Mile 2: 8:53.32
Mile 3: 8:36.20
Mile 4: 8:34.73
Mile 5: 9:12.47
Mile 6: 9:22.17
.2 Miles: 1:53.13 (9:24/mi)



6.2 miles, 55:28.24, 8:56/mi average, 780 calories burned.

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.