Week 8 Update

8 weeks down, 10 more to go

Quick Stats:

Miles Run - 37 (225 total)
Bags of Easter candy finished off - 2 (probably would have been more, but that's all I had left)
sunburned noses - 1

I survived another week! Got off to a rough start early in the week from the lingering soreness from last Sunday's long run, but finished off strong with a 15 mile run yesterday. Now I get to look forward to another recovery week. My body needs it.

My biggest accomplishment this week was my 15 mile run. I've been staring down that run on my calendar ever since I started training for Grandma's. It had been my biggest opponent. For some reason, I was terrified of having to run that distance. I've never ran anything longer than a half marathon (13.1 miles) before now. Last week's 14 mile run didn't seem that scary. If you add in the warm up and cool down I did on the day of my half marathon race last year, 14 miles wasn't that much more of a stretch. But 15, it seemed so long. But I did it yesterday, and other than sheer boredom from about mile 9 on, and being pretty ticked that the water fountain at mile 11 was still shut off for the season, it wasn't any worse than any of the other long runs I've done.