5 and 40
I ran 5.1 miles on Saturday, on the morning of the day we had the party to celebrate my 40th birthday. Yikes! What a crazy day! I was so thrilled with my time, 58 minutes give or take a few seconds because I don’t use a real stopwatch, and pleased with the fact that I did it continuously. Five miles has been a goal in the back of my mind through out my training. Just as 10, 15, 20, and 25 are milestones, 5 was the first. If I could somehow push through and knock that first 5 down, I knew the rest would fall eventually. And they will! I am somewhat concerned about the really worn out feeling I had when I had completed the fourth mile and I knew I had some significant distance to cover before getting home. When I think about it I wonder if that is just my inexperience talking, because I know there are plenty of people that look at a five mile run as a nice warm up. I hope to get there soon some day. Looking at my training log I see that I have run 35.8 miles this month, for 5 hours and ...