Four Miles Baby!

After church today I made everyone lunch and then jumped on the treadmill.  I usually run at night after the kiddos are in bed but today was my 4 mile and I was a little excited.  Plus I wanted to make sure to get it done in case something happened - I didn't want to have any excuses for avoiding it.

That's the longest distance I have ever run in my entire life.  I've done a couple of 5K runs but nothing beyond that.  Even at the point in my life several years ago when I was running consistently I never got further than that.

So this is super exciting for me.

My pace was pretty slow.  I finished in 1 hour, 12 minutes, and 32 seconds.  Which has me running 18 minute miles.  Which is slow.  But I finished and that's what I'm focusing on.

The trainiing schedule I'm doing is really focused on distance over speed because it's a schedule for a half marathon.  Now, I'm NOT running a half marathon.  What I'm actually running is one leg of a half marathon, 6.2 miles (10K). But I want to train for a half marathon.

Even though they have training specifically for a 10K. 

Don't ask me why - it makes no sense. But neither do I.

So next Sunday is 5 miles.

Let's see what I can do...