I did it!!! It hit my goal of less than 2 hours, even with my unconventional Friday evening/Saturday morning! I am so excited!!! This is definitely a big accomplishment for me.
For years, I've told people that I'm not really an athlete. That's because I didn't play sports as a teenager. I was a dancer. I started going to the gym in high school and picked up lifting weights. Since then I've been into working out, off and on of course since there were times when I fell off the wagon. I started running for fun later in high school, and then I ran on a more regular basis in college. But I always told myself, I'm not built to run... so I kept myself at a 10 - 11 minute mile pace.
For years, I've been telling myself I'm too big to run faster. At 5'8" and my size, I felt like it wasn't possible for me to run faster. Now, I've proven myself wrong! I love proving myself wrong! My overall pace was 9 min and 5 seconds. My pace at mile was 9 minutes and 6 seconds. Guess I was pretty consistent!
Now I have to figure out my next project... it will not be a race, at least until 2011. I do believe that part of my improved pace was that I lost some weight (15 pounds). If I want to keep getting faster, I think I should drop a few more. For the next few months, I'm going to maintain my running and focus on strength and flexibility. Not sure what that'll look like, but I'll report back on that. I'm also going to focus more on my food. I've been pretty good, but I spent some time focusing on running that it was sometimes easy to forget the food.
I'm taking today to relax... I deserve it! :)
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That's AWESOME! Congratulations! I've really enjoyed reading about your training - and seeing that you've accomplished your goal from all of your hard work is extremely motivating. Congrats again.
ReplyDeleteNice job! I love accomplishing goals, it's a great feeling!
ReplyDeleteI will say one thing though, do not EVER believe someone when they say you are too big or too heavy or whatever it may be to run faster or be an athlete. I weigh over 200 pounds and ran a sub 1hr 30min half marathon. If anyone knows about being laughed at for running when being "too big" it would be me.
Set your mind to something and accomplish it.
Keep up the good work and don't let other people rain on your parade. You can be as fast as you want to be :)
I agree! Awesome time. I love to set goals for what I think I can do & then hopefully beat them. I like how your mindset is changing around being an athlete & being able to get faster. Good JOB!
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