Last night was the first time I have ran over a 10k since being back from being injured!! It feels great to finally feel like I'm getting back into running shape without anything really hurting me while I run :) When I started out last night I was planning on just doing 6. There's a loop out in the country that I know is a 6 miler starting from my house and I wanted to make sure I was out of the country area before it got too dark on me! I made it safely to the lit up area before complete darkness fell upon me. And after I did the first couple of miles I was feeling great. As I approached my house, I wasn't at the 6 mile marker quite yet (only .15 off) and I like to make my stopping point a little distance away so I can walk back to my house a little distance. So I continued to run straight down to the next road into the surrounding neighborhood but once I got to the turn to go back towards my house I was already at 6 and a quarter so I decided I might as well just run 7 miles tonight since I'm so close anyways. Then once I got to 7, I was only a few minutes away from running for a whole hour so I went just a little farther. I got in that hour long run and 7.5 miles! I was pretty happy that I was able to increase my distance mileage without any pains going on in my legs and I think I'm going to try to do the same next Saturday if I'm feeling good too! Maybe hit 8 next weekend, slowly but surely increasing that distance :)
But this morning my white board calendar had ended the days on the month I have been working off of so it was time to erase and start the next month on it. I decided it was time to add up my mileage from the starting day of May 22 (I have already donated 52 of my miles to my charity) to see where I am at. Since May 22 I have logged 108 miles!! I'm hoping that next month it will be increasing by at least 50 more miles so hopefully by the end of July it will be another 150+ miles that I will be at. My shorter runs are starting to get longer and so are the longer runs so it should be pretty easy, I'm thinking, for me to long at least 150 miles in!
Tiffany
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