I don’t even know what to say about this morning’s run.\u00c2\u00a0 I guess it was uneventful.\u00c2\u00a0 It wasn’t difficult or unpleasant or painful or torturous and parts of it were even fun and enjoyable.\u00c2\u00a0 I have gotten to the point in my training that 5 miles simply isn’t anything.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s a ‘short’ run to me.\u00c2\u00a0 And, with permission to go as slow as 5 mph, I don’t even have to exert myself to keep up that sort of pace.\u00c2\u00a0 I believe my actual pace today was more like 5.5 mph.<\/p>\n
I guess I did have a few notable moments during my run.\u00c2\u00a0 I must be running at nearly the same time each morning because I passed a woman on her way to the bus stop that I had passed yesterday, too, and an older man who just seems to be out walking, and I also crossed paths with a Tempe school bus at exactly the same intersection today as I did yesterday.\u00c2\u00a0 I specifically remember the driver, an incredibly jovial matronly woman.\u00c2\u00a0 So, that was weird, to be running into the same people in motion a couple of days in a row.<\/p>\n
I also waved at commuters on the freeway as I jogged the College Street pedestrian bridge.\u00c2\u00a0 I got another honk today, so I’m on a roll.\u00c2\u00a0 Come to think of it, could it be the same person that honked yesterday?\u00c2\u00a0 As long as I’m busy running into the same people at the same time, what if it was the same driver?\u00c2\u00a0 That would be really weird.\u00c2\u00a0 I wonder what that driver would be thinking.\u00c2\u00a0 He or she must wonder what kind of nutcase I am to be waving at people every day.<\/p>\n
I am quite scared and quite excited about a run I’m signed up for on Saturday.\u00c2\u00a0 I realize that I have finally gotten to the point at which I can keep up 7 mph for at least 5k, on a treadmill.\u00c2\u00a0 That actually is a decent-enough time to potentially place in my age category at a small, local 5k.\u00c2\u00a0 Too bad there isn’t one coming up!\u00c2\u00a0 However, I did sign up for the 4-mile\u00c2\u00a0 Cave Creek Luminaria run and I’m going to see if I can hold at least 7 mph for the duration of 4 miles.\u00c2\u00a0 If I can, I’ve got real potential to place 2nd or 3rd in my age class, if the results this year are similar to last year’s.\u00c2\u00a0 That would be so, so, so cool.\u00c2\u00a0 That is actually an ongoing goal of mine, now, to place in my age category and get a ‘real’ medal, instead of just the ‘finishers’ medals that you get for completing a half-marathon or a marathon.\u00c2\u00a0 Not that those aren’t special, because they most certainly are, but my husband (and others) tease me about them being like the Special Olympics where everyone who participates gets a medal.\u00c2\u00a0 I know their take on it does not match mine, but I would sorta like to shut them up by getting something they’d consider a ‘real’ medal.\u00c2\u00a0 Now, of course, as soon as I place in my age category, they’ll tell me that ‘age category’ medals aren’t ‘real,’ either, and that the only ones that count are the absolute 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place for the whole race.\u00c2\u00a0 Well, that is most certainly out of my reach, so if they say that, I’ll just have to hit them upside the head with whatever medal I happen to have just earned and ask them to show me THEIR medals.\u00c2\u00a0 Hmm.\u00c2\u00a0 I have a bit of aggression, there.\u00c2\u00a0 I better take care of that.\u00c2\u00a0 Perhaps I better go on a run!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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