Those who read our blog often may have noticed that we do all sorts of runs for all sorts of reasons...and that our reasons may be very different than what motivates you to run, walk, bike or however you like to move. Yesterday, my training plan called for 1:45 run with no particular goal of pace or distance. I was joined by two running friends who are not currently training for any particular event, but had their own reasons to do a long run. I haven't run with this particular trio since back in November when Deb had a foot surgery which took her away from running for a few months. By the time she returned to running, Marian was too uncomfortable in her pregnancy to keep running. Well, fast forward to September and Deb's foot is good to go and Marian's sweet little boy is four months old. Deb has run up to 10 miles a few times in late summer, so she was game to do the whole 1:45 hoping to stretch 10 miles to 11 and change. Since Marian was concerned that her pace might not be fast enough, Deb and I added three spurts of speed in the first hour so that we might be a little tired when we picked her up to go the last 45 minutes or if not tired, have satisfied any "need for speed." The first hour went great and we met up with Marian at my house as planned. Our town has a brand new high school that is a mile or two north of our house, so we thought it would be fun to go out and look around at the new surroundings at running speed. The new school did not disappoint. We were able to admire the layout of the buildings and grounds. The building is 300,000 square feet, so I'm glad I don't have to vacuum that! My husband works in the new building; a quick tour of the outside puts a visual to what he describes in the evening. On the way back, I noted that we had nine minutes to go. When Marian asked, "and then we get to walk?" we talked about how we are adults who can walk whenever we want, but since our goal was 1:45, we were CHOOSING to run nine more minutes :-) . For the record, these three adult ladies did choose to finish what they had started. The run was super fun and went so fast. Later, as I was pondering the enjoyable time, I thought it was interesting that we each had something different that we wanted or needed from the run and hopefully everyone got it. I truly think they did... 1. Deb got in more than 11 miles which is the furthest since her foot surgery. Hurrah! 2. Marian finished her longest run since baby was born in May. She finished the planned amount strong and the pace isn't as difficult as in the first few runs this summer. Super! 3. I ran the whole 1:45 on my training plan, got in a couple spurts of speed to test my legs and had a great time running with two lovely ladies. Yeah! In the original movie Mary Poppins, Mary pulls out a measuring tape and measures the children. The results were not in inches or centimeters, but in pointing out some of the growth areas for the kids. When she measured herself, she got this result: I'm quite confident that if my Garmin was as magical as this tape measure, I'd have gotten a "practically perfect in every way" on my screen for our run yesterday. Even the weather was lovely. Have some practically perfect runs this week--happy running! Missee
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AuthorMissee and Stephanie are two Minnesota sisters and moms who love to run. We are not experts in running, parenting or anything else, but we do have years of experiences that may be helpful or entertaining to others. Archives
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