Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Sometimes I'm An Idiot: TFTP

Distance: 9.03 miles
Time: 1:23:16
Avg Pace Per Mile: 9:13

Today as I ran I was thinking about all the things I think about when I run, namely what I was going to write about my run.  I have lots of things to say to you but my head and heart kept coming back to this saying that I pinned the night before.

"3 Choices," you can substitute the word bad  with the words: hard, tough, dumb, unfair, or lame.  I will substitute "something bad happens" with: you have a tough (slow) run.  But I was buoyed by the fact that I could run another day and run faster and get over this dumb cold.  So I ran, slowly.  And when RunKeeper asked me how it went, I said: OK. 

That's not an enthusiastic "OK," that's a "BLAH STOP ASKING ME OK."  I wanted to be under 9:00 minute miles.  It didn't work

I got home and ate my just burned calories in the form of this, that and several scrambled eggs.  A few hours later I checked my run against my other long runs and discovered something: that was my fastest long run yet. 

You might wonder how I didn't know that but like I said, sometimes I'm an idiot.   I don't hold numbers in my head the way some people do.  I just forgot what times I was running.  So I might be an idiot but apparently ignorance is bliss.

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