I'm just going to cut right to the chase. I'm kind of tired, just a little bit. It takes a lot of energy for me to write my blog and the last two weeks I have run 264 miles.
For awhile it was kind of necessary because my car wasn't running, it needs breaks and has broken parts way more often than I do. It wasn't really a big deal for me because I would just run to work, and home, and wherever else I need to go and then some, and then a LOT. And time tends to go by when you're running late to work quite fast unlike some long runs, which shall remain anonymous.
My car is running now but that doesn't mean I'm not. Easy days are now days when you only have to run 15 miles. A day when you get done running and it is still daylight- that's a rarity. I used to think that Bellingham had lots of trails but not anymore, Bellingham is not big enough for me.
One day a week I do hills. Usually whatever day I have to work all daylight hours. Sounds like a good day for a 3 and 1/2 hour run up Galbraith! Since I refuse to run on Galbraith in the dark, because it is creepy!, we had to improvise a route that was close to my work and not creepy. And we got the James St hill which if you want a description of just scroll down to my blog about the 15k Trail Championships in May and you'll get a nice visual too. After running up that 5 or 6 times I am pretty hilled out and run home, the long way home, the very long way, the so far out of your way you might not even be able to call it running home way home.
Last Wednesday I got lost. It was around 4:30 in the afternoon so pitch black and I ended up on some dark shoulderless road that didn't turn into the nice sidewalked, street lamped street near my house as I thought but instead ran into Canada or something. I had my phone since I was running from work so I called Jim and asked him how I should run home but got some unintentional misdirections, which was ok, I figured it out, but Jim didnt know that so he drove around looking for me for an hour trying to save me from running till morning. Something Joel probably wouldn't do, and probably would encourage actually now that I think about it. (Mental note- be mad at Joel about last Wednesday.)
The bright side was I only had to do one "workout" last week. The down side was that since I only did one workout I had to suffer enough for three, or seven. Starting with a 25k on the track at goal 50k pace. Ok, I told myself, this wont be so hard because you are doing the easy part of the 50k- the beginning, before you die! Uh oh, because nothing over a few laps is ever easy for me on the track, how bout 62.5 laps, hello, so I got to suffer a good long time and be reminded every single second just how far I had left to run, and fell off pace a little bit. Still ran 1:57, goal- 1:55. Afterward I got to walk half a lap! Such fun, (but apparently I walk too slow according to someone with a stopwatch who wishes he had a megaphone.)
Then I only had to run 3 mile repeats in 6:58-7 minutes. Ahh, remember when 3 mile repeats was my entire workout? Awww. Sorry, just having nostalgia for Evergreen. Euw, did I really just type that? Well not for the learning obviously, shudder. Anyway it's not all bad now. Like that evening on the day I ran 18.5 miles of workout, I only had to run 55 minutes after work, yay!
The next day's run was 26 miles, or about 3 hours and 45 minutes. My hamstring was tight and I was so tired the whole time, kept having to lie to myself over and over how much I love running ( which gets exhausting. The lying I mean, for 3 hours and 45 minutes!) it was such great practice for the 24 hour run!
Now as I write this I am only 211 miles away from running 4000 miles this year and I have 12 days left. A few weeks ago I wouldn't think I could do it but now it's in the bag!
For awhile it was kind of necessary because my car wasn't running, it needs breaks and has broken parts way more often than I do. It wasn't really a big deal for me because I would just run to work, and home, and wherever else I need to go and then some, and then a LOT. And time tends to go by when you're running late to work quite fast unlike some long runs, which shall remain anonymous.
My car is running now but that doesn't mean I'm not. Easy days are now days when you only have to run 15 miles. A day when you get done running and it is still daylight- that's a rarity. I used to think that Bellingham had lots of trails but not anymore, Bellingham is not big enough for me.
One day a week I do hills. Usually whatever day I have to work all daylight hours. Sounds like a good day for a 3 and 1/2 hour run up Galbraith! Since I refuse to run on Galbraith in the dark, because it is creepy!, we had to improvise a route that was close to my work and not creepy. And we got the James St hill which if you want a description of just scroll down to my blog about the 15k Trail Championships in May and you'll get a nice visual too. After running up that 5 or 6 times I am pretty hilled out and run home, the long way home, the very long way, the so far out of your way you might not even be able to call it running home way home.
Last Wednesday I got lost. It was around 4:30 in the afternoon so pitch black and I ended up on some dark shoulderless road that didn't turn into the nice sidewalked, street lamped street near my house as I thought but instead ran into Canada or something. I had my phone since I was running from work so I called Jim and asked him how I should run home but got some unintentional misdirections, which was ok, I figured it out, but Jim didnt know that so he drove around looking for me for an hour trying to save me from running till morning. Something Joel probably wouldn't do, and probably would encourage actually now that I think about it. (Mental note- be mad at Joel about last Wednesday.)
The bright side was I only had to do one "workout" last week. The down side was that since I only did one workout I had to suffer enough for three, or seven. Starting with a 25k on the track at goal 50k pace. Ok, I told myself, this wont be so hard because you are doing the easy part of the 50k- the beginning, before you die! Uh oh, because nothing over a few laps is ever easy for me on the track, how bout 62.5 laps, hello, so I got to suffer a good long time and be reminded every single second just how far I had left to run, and fell off pace a little bit. Still ran 1:57, goal- 1:55. Afterward I got to walk half a lap! Such fun, (but apparently I walk too slow according to someone with a stopwatch who wishes he had a megaphone.)
Then I only had to run 3 mile repeats in 6:58-7 minutes. Ahh, remember when 3 mile repeats was my entire workout? Awww. Sorry, just having nostalgia for Evergreen. Euw, did I really just type that? Well not for the learning obviously, shudder. Anyway it's not all bad now. Like that evening on the day I ran 18.5 miles of workout, I only had to run 55 minutes after work, yay!
The next day's run was 26 miles, or about 3 hours and 45 minutes. My hamstring was tight and I was so tired the whole time, kept having to lie to myself over and over how much I love running ( which gets exhausting. The lying I mean, for 3 hours and 45 minutes!) it was such great practice for the 24 hour run!
Now as I write this I am only 211 miles away from running 4000 miles this year and I have 12 days left. A few weeks ago I wouldn't think I could do it but now it's in the bag!
You go, Emily! 4,000 miles. You are AWESOME. Jess says you can be mad at Joel.
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