Sunday, September 15, 2013

Days 30-34

First of all, Joe and I are fine.  Thankfully the flooding in Colorado hasn't effected our neighborhood.  It has been raining like crazy here, but the storm sewer systems in Denver have been built to handle this extreme weather.  Joe told me that many years ago, the entire LoDo area would have flooded, but the city resolved that issue a long time ago.  We have been effected in just two ways, really.  First, the sewer line in our building overflowed or something and it has given us a wonderful smell to deal with.  Luckily, Joe and I are on the third floor, so the smell hasn't penetrated into our apartment.  Second, all of this rain has put a bit of a damper on my running schedule (literally).  I should have had two more runs in by now, but because of the rain, I am a day behind.

I did get out yesterday to do my Week 5 Day 2 run and was happy to see some sun and puddle-less sidewalks.  My run was down to three running intervals again, but this time was my first 8 minute run!  I did a 5 min, 8 min, and 5 min.  Again, I was nervous about the increase in time, but I just went for it.  And a wonderful thing happened...I finally experienced that moment of running when I didn't think about it and it just happened.  The first minute or so of each interval is agony and traditionally that agony lasts throughout my whole running interval.  But during my 8 minute run, at some point, my mind began to wander to other things and the next thing I knew I was saying to myself, "Oh wait!  This isn't total agony!"  But that got me thinking about running again and the agony returned.  But I recognized that I had that minute or so of ignorant bliss and I was just doing it.  So I know it can happen.  Perhaps when I get back out there (hopefully tomorrow?) and do my first 8 min - 8 min run, I can tap back into that moment of non-agony.

2 comments:

  1. Glad you are not too affected by the floods. Keep up the good work. I'm very proud of you. See you in 5 days!!!

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  2. Glad you are not too affected by the floods. Keep up the good work. I'm very proud of you. See you in 5 days!!!

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