I survived my endurance and confidence building weekend. My groupies and I did our 20 early Saturday on the lakefront and for some reason the 20 was so much easier than the 18 miler
two weeks ago it's scary.
Soooo. I got cocky and went ahead with the Chicago Half early Sunday. About half way through the thing I was seriously thinking that I should have filled out the emergency contact info
on the back side of my bib number.
It was really, really hard but I got the darned medal and by Sunday evening I was feeling like I may have a life after all. I don't have a car here in the city, I'm too cheap to spend money
on a cab and of course I can't ask anyone for a ride. Sooo I ride my little Trek to the start of these runs. Saturday morning's early ride was into the wind and rain and 5 miles and naturally it was a 5 mile ride back home after the 20 mile run.
It's around 10 miles to the Museum of Science and Industry, the start point of the Chicago half so all told I ran 33 miles over the weekend and biked 30. I'm going very, very slow and easy right now because of a setback I had last summer and a visit to ER here in the Windy City.
I'm learning to go slow and enjoy it but I'm looking forward to picking up the pace over the winter and into next year and see what this old man can do. My race times and training runs are around 12 minutes per mile right now. I don't like to admit that because I know I can go faster but this is where my mind and body is today.
And as for tomorrow...just hoping for another breath of air, another run and a few more smiles from these beautiful girls.
"All We Are Is Dust In The Wind" - Kansas
two weeks ago it's scary.
Soooo. I got cocky and went ahead with the Chicago Half early Sunday. About half way through the thing I was seriously thinking that I should have filled out the emergency contact info
on the back side of my bib number.
It was really, really hard but I got the darned medal and by Sunday evening I was feeling like I may have a life after all. I don't have a car here in the city, I'm too cheap to spend money
on a cab and of course I can't ask anyone for a ride. Sooo I ride my little Trek to the start of these runs. Saturday morning's early ride was into the wind and rain and 5 miles and naturally it was a 5 mile ride back home after the 20 mile run.
It's around 10 miles to the Museum of Science and Industry, the start point of the Chicago half so all told I ran 33 miles over the weekend and biked 30. I'm going very, very slow and easy right now because of a setback I had last summer and a visit to ER here in the Windy City.
I'm learning to go slow and enjoy it but I'm looking forward to picking up the pace over the winter and into next year and see what this old man can do. My race times and training runs are around 12 minutes per mile right now. I don't like to admit that because I know I can go faster but this is where my mind and body is today.
And as for tomorrow...just hoping for another breath of air, another run and a few more smiles from these beautiful girls.
"All We Are Is Dust In The Wind" - Kansas
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You Rock!!!!!!!! Way to go on the back-to-back long weekend!!!!!!!!
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