Look at that road begging to be ran!
Its about .31 miles (so almost a third of a mile) almost flat stretch of road that runs behind the hilly park where I like to run. That little incline you see towards the end of the road puts you to work when you're going pretty hard then hit that slight incline. Theres a steeper part where I like to run, I'll take a picture of that next week.
For today's run, I went to said hilly park. The route/loop around the park I take is a little over a mile and I do it twice then do intervals on that stretch of road. I did about 3 miles today when I decided to go home (I drove to the park) because there was a group of guys in the park who was being really crass. A side tip for guys, when you begin to objectify girls and act all crass and crude, remember that we are a father's daughter. That when you have your own daughter you would NOT want them to be objectified like that. Its just wrong. Have some respect. < / rant >
The sun was really brutal today as well. This park has very little shade and when I looped the park, I can feel my skin burning. Its cray. I guess a downside in running is that I'm getting darker. Yes, I know, I'm still light and I still probably glow in the dark, but I can tell the difference. But I'm getting over that. But yeah. I have to double up my sports bra and it really sucks to have to run in two bras. Its a fact of life for girls, so if you're guy and you just read that and went TMI, well, you know, you'll deal with it when your daughters start running and have tatas =]
I also didn't eat prior. I had GU and took my multi vitamin with Gatorade and dipped out. The GU helped a lot since I my energy level was pretty out there. I was able to jog/run twice of that flat stretch of road (2/3 of a mile) under the blazing sun without stopping! So happy to see progress in endurance. I've been "running" in that park for over a year and that park owned me all the time, I would really walk instead of run. It would take me 20+ minutes to finish a mile lap around the park. Now it takes me 10-15 depends how sunny it is and how fueled I am. And that park is hilly! HILLY I tell you! HILLY! I'm really happy with my progress tho. When I get my new gizmo, I can track millage more accurately and I'm sorta looking forward to that, sorta not because I've been so focused on just being able to jog/run for a longer amount of time that I've been sticking to 3 milers.
As far as aches & pains, my left knee (the notorious complainer of the two) is kinda hurting, but nothing too bad where I can't tolerate or I have to brace it 24/7, which I've had to do before. While running, I had a dull pain in my rib cage, sorta like a side stitch but in my rib cage? A rib cage stitch? But nothing that lasted too long or didn't go away when I stopped "pushing" it. Which was kinda a hard since I fartlek'ed today.
But yeah, longest run re-cap ever! Haha. I loved todays run except for those guys. I know I could have ran more! Maybe later on when then sun isn't blazing I'll do another 3 miler. Or really, I should P90!
As far as weight loss, I haven't weighed myself in a while since I'm carb cycling and carb cycling will ultimately result in weight loss but in the beginning weight will fluctuate and I tend to obsess over numbers on the scale. So yeah. I forced weight loss to the back burner so I don't obsess over it. But I know I'm ganing muscle (especially my legs, 'ole mole!) and loosing fat because my clothes are fitting way better. I need to find my measuring tape. Surprsing I can't find one of mine becasue I sew and have a bunch of em!
