Well, I did it. I got up this morning and ran a full five kilometres in the woods. It was freaking hard! I’m used to running on the pavement so the spongy ground made it twice as difficult because you have to work that little bit extra to move your leg. The slight sink into the ground with each step means you have to use a bit more energy to move the leg back up. You understand.
Anyway, my finishing time was….wait for it…29 minutes 38 seconds. I finished 110th out of 115 people. I suppose for my first go it’s not so bad and at least I didn’t finish dead last. I think running on the soft ground made the biggest difference. I’m just not used to it. The highest my heart rate should be going, according to my heart rate monitor’s fitness test, is 173. It didn’t drop below 173 the whole 29 minutes, 38 seconds. During the last 100 metres or so when I was giving it all I had (of what I had left) my heart rate was 186. I was working over-time to finish that thing.
I’m proud of me and my husband is proud of me. I have a huge sense of accomplishment but also now an addiction. I want to do it again and I want to get better. Watch this space for more run results. Here are a few pictures from today.
Admittedly, yes, I am still a bit too pudgy to be seen in public in skin-tight lycra but, hey, I’m working on it, ok?!
Oh yes, it’s Krispy Kreme time. Let me tell you, those chocolate doughnuts were so damn good! Seriously, slap yo momma good. Mmm, mmm, MMMMM!
So that’s been my Saturday. Hope you enjoy the rest of yours.
YOUR DAD AND I ARE SO PROUD OF YOU WE COULD JUST BUST. YOU HAVE ALWAYS BEEN A DETERMINED PERSON, ALL THE WAY BACK TO WHEN YOU WERE A BABY – LORD WHAT A SET OF LUNGS YOU HAD WHEN YOU DIDN’T GET WHAT YOU WANTED. KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK, AND BY THE WAY, YOU LOOK BETTER IN LYCRA THAN MOST PEOPLE, AND THEY’RE NOT RUNNING. YOU ARE LOOKING GREAT. LOVE YOU, MOM & DAD
“Slap yo momma good”
You can take the girl out of the south…
Congratulations on the 5k. We are, for what it’s worth, extremely proud.
And jealous of the krispie kremes. They don’t have ‘em here.
I would just like to repeat what Dave just wrote above.
Well done hun!! xx
Leah! That is awesome! And your folks are right — you do look better in Lycra than most people. HAWT!