Week 2 is finished! The story of the week was my tired legs. I made the mistake of running the day after my long run when it should have been a rest day. Three miles never felt so long. That also happened to be the day I discovered the lovely Soybean Aphid. For anyone living in Central Illinois in the under position of a rock, these creatures are the annoying little gnat-like disturbances that seemed to appear overnight and attack anyone who dared venture outside. After Monday's run, my shirt was covered with them. Ewwww!
On my second run of the week, I ventured to the oasis of my friend Pam. She was waiting to offer me cold water. When I arrive at her doorstep stooped over and a good deal later than I should have for a mile and half, I was greeted with the fact that she measured the distance wrong and that I had actually run more like 2 miles. The upside was that she had trailmix and ice water for me and drove me the excess distance back to my car. Pam rocks!
My Friday run was uneventful, though I did have to re-route myself in the middle of the run to avoid excess amounts of aphids.
Sunday's run was great. It was a cool morning. I had planned to run in the Shoreline Classic in Decatur. The distances of the races were 5K (3.1 miles), which was 4 miles too short for my schedule and 15K (9.3 miles) which was 2 miles too long. I think you can guess which race I ran. I had my mom drop me off at the side of the road and ran 2 miles to the park, jumped in and ran the 5K and then ran 2 miles afterwards. The cool part was I ran the 5K portion of my 7 miles at a faster pace than I had run any races this summer.
So week two ended with an awesome run and me icing my left shin. Stupid shin splints! Only 16 more weeks to go.
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