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September 11, 2005
Numerical Post
Last night I consulted a map of the Charles and broke out my calculator and tried to figure out a route that was about 8 miles. It took a few minutes but I was successful. When I woke up this morning I was kind of nervous. When I tell myself I am going running for an hour or an hour and 15 minutes it seems so much more normal and manageable than saying, time to get out the door for an 8 mile run. Two of my concerns were: What if my leg hurt? I never have to use the bathroom when I run but I have kind of been eating crap for the past few days (too many cookies shaped like letters of the alphabet-don’t ask) so what if that was a problem? I was so worried about something going wrong that I actually took money with me which I never do unless I know I’ll need it for something, like dinner the other night. (I usually just assume I am invincible and will be able to make it back.)
From past experience I know the Charles is a 10 minute run from my apartment. However, I got all confused as to the exact location of the bridge I was looking for and went the wrong way. I felt like Alison b/c I was definitely behind some random buildings (though not quite body storage worthy) and looking for the path I needed. 20 minutes after leaving my house I found my way to the Charles. I decided that b/c I had gotten lost I couldn’t quite do the bridge loop I had planned out (River St. to Longfellow, which is 6.1 miles) b/c I didn’t want to run too far on my healing leg so I made a shorter bridge loop (BU to Harvard). I thought I would just add on at the end of the run. While I was running I decided that I was being crazy and there was no need to run 8 miles on a healing leg. While I was feeling great I am now super injury cautious and thought it was best not to push it. I’m not really training for anything long, I am racing next weekend, 60 minutes would be more than fine for health and fitness, and as much as wanted to run 8 miles, I was probably better off taking it easy. Consequently, I decided to run the 20 minutes to the Charles, do the BU to Harvard bridge loop, and run the 10 minutes home from the Charles.
I ran the 2.7 mile BU to Harvard loop (the map gives exact mileage) in 24:16 which is almost exactly 9 min/mile pace. I have no idea how far the rest of the run was but assuming my 57:14 minute run was all at that pace I ran 6.3 miles. That makes me happy as it was at least a 10K.
It is almost fall here. My hands were cold during the first part of my run! I REALLY have to do my reading for school now. Happy weekend!
Posted by Audrey at September 11, 2005 10:13 AM