Twenty-One

The number of miles I ran on Sunday. It wouldn't have been possible without Matt running along with me. We had a 6:30 start time on Sunday and I knew it was go then or not at all. I chose to go. We start out slow or at least Matt kept reigning me back in to make sure I went slow and had enough juice for the end of the run. It sounds silly, but it is not always the easiest thing to do. I really enjoy early morning runs on the weekend once I'm over the "what am I doing waking up early on the weekend factor." It is fun to run the quiet streets while the majority of people are asleep. We saw the cleaning crew picking up trash from the previous nights football game, and experienced the sunrise. We meandered our way over to town lake at mopac Matt making sure I was drinking every 15 minutes which on a long run you sometimes have to remind yourself to do. We ran the 4.5 mile loop and then made our way home backtracking where we came from previously. It was a hilly route and I could start to feel the length of it toward the end. I think part of what was getting to me was I only had one gel the whole morning and I was starting to get grouchy. I slogged my way to the end of the run and believe me was ready to stop on this one. Was I glad I did it? absolutely I learned a lot of valuable things on this run: fuel, water and start off slow.