Running Skirt

Seven miles! It was rough start and for the last three tenths of a mile my knee started hurting but it was a good run. I think perhaps some adjustments could be made so that I might be better prepared for the next long run. Note to self: don't stay out until 3am drinking when you are runnning at 8:00am the next day. It wasn't terrible. I was just a little grumpy for the first mile. After about mile two I woke up and started to enjoy my surroundings. The run to City Island is beautiful. Each time I run by the water and look at all the trees I can't believe that it's the Bronx.

I'm still not sure how I will do thirteen miles in November but I'll just take it one run at a time. I think for now I will each lunch, finish up some work in the lab, and go take a nice long nap.

Just as the Nimbus 2000 allowed Harry Potter fly, so to my new Nimbus VIII shoes let me fly through my run. Well, not quite fly-but they definitely felt a lot better than my old shoes. We did about four and a half miles at about a ten-minute mile pace. I can't seem to run much faster than that yet but I think that I will have to eventually pick up the pace.

Looking forward to the rest tomorrow to prepare for the seven mile run on Friday.

I've been running in my Sketchers that I've had for at least four years. And while they give me blisters, that's about my only complaint during runs. Yesterday when I went for a run with the guys, there were complaints about knees, and shins, and there I was with the bad shoes--doing ok (well, my pinky toe hurt a bit from the shoes). So it was time for real running shoes. I went to this store where someone there watched how I walk and took the time to make sure that the shoes I was going to run in fit just right. I walked out of the stored with some ASICS^® GEL-Nimbus VIII. Here's hoping they're better than my Sketchers :).

While I'm not new to the blog world, I am quite new to the world of running. It began about five weeks ago when I was having a bad day. A friend tried to get me out of my blah state by encouraging that we go for a run. It felt great! I didn't think I would be able to keep it up but here I am five weeks later and still running. So here's hoping there will be more runs and many more posts about them.