Let’s count the ways the past few days have been a success!
We returned from our Property Meeting with tons of work on Friday. Since no one was in the office to get things done, everyone needed everything immediately. I had renewed motivation to work. Lately I have been lacking motivation. When I have a lazy boss, I feel no need to work hard. Jerry appears lazy at times, but I know he does a lot of work at home and on weekends. It’s just hard when I see him bumming around, talking to people and never really working to make me want to work. Coming back from the meeting I felt a new sense of motivation and purpose. I wanted to work and wanted to get things done. That paid off with 3 binders Friday alone (go me!).
Friday evening I tested out my new Pure Flow 2 shoes with a 5 mile run. My legs were still not fully recovered from my 23 mile run on Saturday, so they felt heavy. I did a nice progressive run where each mile got faster and faster. Love the new shoes.
Saturday was a success. I got up early and got a ton crossed off my to do list. Everything from shredding documents, to donating clothes, to getting my race packet. And Mark started fixing the fence. He took done the leaning section, took out the wood posts, used his phd (post hole digger) and set the metal posts in concrete. Still has to put up the paneling, but I am now not worried about the fence falling on a little kid. I was started to get anxious about that. The rest of the day was spent relaxing and studying.
Sunday was the Texas Half. It was a perfect day for running and I planned on just taking it easy this run. Megan wanted to push it, so I knew we were running on our own. We started off and she was flying, so I was just bumming along. I knew I was going faster than normal, but figured it was just beginning of the race adrenaline and that I would settle into a normal pace (generally the first mile is fast than I calm down). At the mile 6 I was still running right at an 8 minute pace. My half marathon PR was an 8:17 pace. At that point I knew I was going for it. I was just going to hold on to my 8-8:15 as long as I could and hope I banked enough time in the beginning to make up for slowing down at the end. Total positive splits, which are bad, but at this point I didn’t care. I knew I couldn’t maintain an 8 minute pace the whole way, so I just pushed as long as I could and tried to hang on. By mile 11 I thought I was done for. I considered walking, even if just for a minute, but I shuffled on. I was maintaining an 8:30 pace at the end, but it felt like a 12 minute pace. Once I hit 12.5 miles I knew I was golden and just pushed to the finish That also finished up my 4 Seasons Challenge, which means - extra bling!
Final time: 1:47:21 (50 second PR) – I thank the new shoes!
Megan ran a 1:41:30 (over 3 minute PR and good enough for 2nd in our age group).
After that I went home and sat in my grandma’s rocking chair on the patio and read for several hours. Read my runners world magazine and half of a book. Ate way too much food during the SuperBowl and spent the entire 3rd quarter (where all the action happened) trying to get the possum out of my garage. Watch part of the 4th quarter, enough to see the safety at the end, which won me $$ on our SuperBowl squares!
Petey - possum in the corner of the garage in my toy bucket
I don’t think my weekend could have gotten any better!
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