A First

I have officially finished my first double digit run. I was supposed to do it yesterday but I was going so slowly and having to stop to use the rest room so often (to much tea) I scrapped the run after 4 miles. Today I was not messing around.

I grabbed some Poweraid and a granola bar and headed out to the park. It is a 6.6 mile out and back so some of it was repeated. I'm sure it would have been better if I had repeated one bigger segment instead of 3 smaller ones but it all got done.

I was still slower then I normally go but given that my inexplicable case of nerves before the run, it was probably necessary to keep my heart from exploding. After I had finished 7 miles and saw my heart rate back up to 200bpm I realized that the strap of the monitor was around my waist. I have no Idea what it was reading but when I got it on correctly my heart rate went back down. I may have run faster if I didn't think my heart rate was so high to begin with (though I may just have been stuck on slow this weekend).