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decided last night to go the gym drove to the gym to find it was closed, so i ate tomato pie instead. I gave myself A for effort. figured no worries i could spilt my run up over the next three days or so to even it out. Ran to the gym this morning 1.5 miles there, 2.5 miles at the treadmill at the gym and then 1.5 miles back, however saved a little 13 year old beagle service dog from crossing a busy street in my town and returned him safely home with the help of a little social media! got in 4.83 so i figured i can do about 8.3 miles the next two days.... hopefully!
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getting going is the worse. i am planning on running 2,015 miles in 2015! approximately 5.5 miles a day, 38.5 miles a week, 171 miles in January, 326 miles in February, 497 miles in March, 663 miles in April, 834 miles in May, 1000 miles in June, 1171 miles in July, 1342 in August, 1508 miles in September, 1679 in October, 1845 in November and then 2015 miles in December!! This is will hopefully lead up to my 2nd marathon in Philadelphia, and hopefully a BQ time! (3:35) I will be doing The Broad Street Run for the very first time in my favorite city ever in May! I will start a Intermediate Hal Higdon 15k Plan in February which will hopefully lead me to a sub 77 minute for the 10 mile Broad Street Run (7:42 pace). After the Broad Street I will start a 30 week plan from Hal Higdon for the marathon!!
everyone tells me how motivated I am for running marathon. "wow you did a marathon and you're how old? You're so motivated." But honestly it was one of the most challenging things to be motivated for, because in all honestly who is dying to run a marathon for usually more than 3 hours? You would think running a marathon would give me unlimited motivation and great self esteem but not really. I felt good about it for a while like wow, I did I ran my first marathon, this is so great- but I'm in school.I had really had big exceptions for myself, I had good training since I started my plan in August, I wanted to qualify for Boston but that did not happen, so was per usual, I was crushed- I ran my first marathon at 21 years old while starting a new school, and was upset? Why? I want to do great things in my life and for some reason, even when I do great things, I don't give myself credit for it. I have to believe myself when I say: I did a run marathon, and that is something great. I did something most people don't have the chance or motivation to do in their life and that is freaking awesome. Running always clears my mind. It's watching your feet hit the pavement, your stride enlarging with every swing of your hips, the air pulsing thru your lungs, and your elbows swing back and forth. it's liberating, it's the greatest experience I've known, the road is always there to meet you at your worst, or your best. It's no matter what happens to you that day, you can put your running shoes on and go for a run and release all that tension of the day.
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