!3 miles- In my Half and Half Ghosts, & Pure Flows- Think i'm going to hurl- I'm so Happy!

Can you believe we got an extra day this year?

Leap day-

Should have run,

But who can resist a chatty Mol's

Who's begging for a tuna lunch date?

Gotta love her!

 

So, now it's:

Thursday, March 1st

My last run being Monday

I was bound and determined to get one in today

Put together a ensemble that would find me going NO WHERE but the pavement

Took a self portrait reminiscent of ol' Uncle Sam

saying:

"I want YOU to run today"

I want YOU to run today!

Even pulled out my half and half Brooks Ghosts....

Yeah that's right- I hate white shoes so much I sharpie-d them-

Well, just one so far

(takes a wicked long time to cover all that white)

sharpie heaven on one
Cursed white on the other

And I ran.

fast

I just wanted to see what it would be like to really run it

Mile 1 was clipping right along

Over a minute and a half faster than my usual

My pace felt great-

I did the math in my head figuring an amazing half marathon time

Amazing for me anyway

It spurred me on the run even more

why not?

I secretly thought I'd finally figured it out,

and that today would be my breakthrough day

2nd mile had me faster still

Mile 3 had me hemmed in by hills,

pace slipped

Mile 4 had me taking odd turns, trying to get out

I turned off into a neighborhood, and wove my way  through

up ahead I see a dirt road

I'm a sucker for a good detour,

Just had to take it.

It took me up, and spit me out on a road I knew well by the library

I cannot tell you how I love to just run and explore this way

It's like a scavenger hunt.

Mile 4.5 I'm toast

Yep, toast.

Tired.

Sore.

Done.

A little anticlimactic, seeing as I had a long run in the back of my mind

I think that's the problem with me

I give myself room to change my mind

At whim

Should I call it and label it  a 4 mile tempo?

Should I soldier on

Why did I push it so fast at the start

Blame my ego...

What? How can you have an ego when you can't even hold a 10 minute mile?

I decide to blame my shoes.

Get it in my head that they needed to go

SO mile 5

Home, hydrate

change shoes

I'm now in the lovely Brooks Pure Flows

They have been my shoe of choice while the Ghosts were 'out of commission'

On account of the Ghosts being only half technicolor-ed.

The Flows had been a bit problematic when first bought

But just about a week and a half ago,

I'd found my stride in them.

Mile 6

Pace is back up, but no where near miles 1-3

I start to wonder if I will ever figure this running thing out.

Mile 7

Shoes don't have it today

Mile 8

Where oh where is my boost?

I usually get a fun boost of energy at mile 5 and mile 8

A lovely little 'cheering on' my mind and body give me to keep going

Dizzy

Weird

I run to our now empty rental house where I stashed another water

chug and run

Surely that would help

Then next 5 miles were a blur

An odd walk /run where I talked to myself

Flat mad bonkers bazerk

Funny

I wasn't really stressed  or sad

I just didn't have anything left to give

Made it back to my car

13.04

Overall pace ended up not so terribly bad

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Fast forward 30 minutes

I'm taking Moll's on a play date to big-bounce

(a play-place full of jump castles and big blow-up fun house slides)

I walk in

The popcorn smell is UNBELIEVABLY strong

Over the next hour

I run to the bathroom 3 separate times and hurl

Made me half smile.....

Maybe I wasn't such a wuss after all on that run

Either I had a touch of the flu and ran through it

Or I'd given it all I had for today and pushed myself to the limits

Don't know if I'll ever really know which it was

What I do know, is this:

I had very very very bad hair

And my breath was funky

Time to head home.............

Tomorrow is  a new day

I'm happy.

Got my run in!

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I know you're DYING to know which shoe I liked better.

The Ghosts had over all comfort in the bag

My foot is a wide one- short and stout

I don't notice this when I wear them

However, I never really found 'my stride' in them

Think the heel got in the way

That being said, I did run faster in them

Mostly due to the fact I wore them the first half?

hmmmmm

The Flows feel great

I find that seamless gliding gate in them.

However, I feel they are best with a slight decline or flat road

Uphill? Forget about it!

I don't think this means everyone will feel this way

Just that my foot being short puts the ball of my foot toward the back of the middle

I almost feel like I get stuck on the turnover unless I'm going faster, or downhill

The Mogo material has great responsiveness...but sometimes I get stuck in the bounce

Like a slightly flat bouncy ball that falters....

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