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My diving man!!!
posted: 1/7/2008 at 1:51 AM
I just have to tell anyone that will listen that I ran 8.3 miles today. I have never, ever ran that far and truth be told never thougt that I could. I feel good, danananana I knew that I would......
Cherrie
SBBC

start weight 9/1/08 179.8
10/19 goal weight 160.0
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TRI-HARD
posted: 1/7/2008 at 2:06 AM
That's great Cherrie!!! I just hit that marker recently myself. It feels great does'nt it? I can't wait to hit the next one. Keep it up! Big grin

Andy
Gotta TRI
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posted: 1/7/2008 at 2:06 AM
Woot! That's awesome!
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posted: 1/7/2008 at 2:51 AM
Way to go, Cherrie!! I'm hoping to be at that point by the end of March. It's a long ways!!

Teresa
Maine Coast HM, September 21
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Runs With Snowplows
posted: 1/7/2008 at 2:53 AM
Just you wait...keep going and you will double it! Then you'll look back and think, "wow, 8.3...that wasn't so hard!" I love how relative the milestones keep getting. Big grin

How are you feeling tonite?
Kirsten

Ladies Locker Room

.: 2008 Goals :.
• Run 1500 miles
• October 5 - 1st marathon - Milwaukee Lakefront - in my home state of WI
• PRs: 5k ~ 15k ~ 25k
• 1st trail race
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Sup!
posted: 1/7/2008 at 2:57 AM
nice. Pretty soon you'll feel guilty running < 5 miles.
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Can't run? Go play.
posted: 1/7/2008 at 3:11 AM
WTG, Cherrie! Funny, I was just reflecting today on how I ran 3.5 miles with my DW today and thought it was a short run and... just about a year or so ago I couldn't fathom how someone could go out and consistently run 3 - 4 miles a day. Keep up the awesome work! Wink
Rick
"The will to win means nothing without the will to prepare." - Juma Ikangaa
"I wanna go fast." Ricky Bobby
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Running safely
posted: 1/7/2008 at 3:57 AM
Though it has been almost 2 years ago when I ran my first 8+ mile run, I remember it well. It just seems to me that 8 miles was a special number.

Congrats on hitting that distance. For me it was magical.

David
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posted: 1/7/2008 at 4:00 AM
great job! soon you'll be doing double digit long runs!
keep running!
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posted: 1/7/2008 at 6:17 AM
Sweeeeeeeeettttt...... Big grin
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My diving man!!!
posted: 1/7/2008 at 12:00 PM
thanks for the support!!! Kristen, my legs were pretty tired last night and I expected to be pretty sore today but so far so good. Got up without any moaning (which is always a good sign). Today is a rest day and then tomorrow I do my 'reg' loop of 3.5. This running thing really is addictive though - it is nice out today (will be almost 50) and I'm sitting here trying to figure out if I can get a run in Big grin
Cherrie
SBBC

start weight 9/1/08 179.8
10/19 goal weight 160.0
12 Squared
posted: 1/7/2008 at 9:25 PM
Hey, way to go! You're probably gunning for ten now, aren't you? Like dpeach said, 8 is a special number. It's farther than a 10K which was my goal for a year or so. Keep up the good work!
If you don't know where you're going, chances are you will end up somewhere else. - Yogi Berra
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posted: 1/7/2008 at 11:11 PM
modified: 1/8/2008 at 12:07 AM
My memory's not all that sharp these days, I don't remember 8 miles. But I think I will always remember 10, it was hot as hell and I was dragging a HUGE plow behind me. I got to the front of the house, looked up at the three flights of stairs up to the back door and sat on the bumper of my Jeep. I was a big sweaty mess sitting on the bumper for quite a while, there was no way I was making that climb without resting.

It stills brings a smile when I think about it, because I was completely spent and incredibly happy. It's the best kind of exhaustion, isn't it?

Congrats, keep up the good work!

P.S. I didn't know it at the time, but I was making it more difficult to add miles than it had to be. I didn't pay enough attention to my pace, I was doing my long runs too fast. When I slowed my long-run pace by about 2 minutes per mile (or more if very hot/humid) it was MUCH easier to finish up a PR distance run (and climb those damned stairs without waiting).
Ed
Tuesday Good Times 5K series in Lowell, MA (So sad it's over)

2008: HTFU and BQ at BayState Marathon

Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy
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future ankle art
posted: 1/7/2008 at 11:58 PM
Go Cherrie!!

Last Saturday, I ran w/ a gal who is running the Disney marathon this weekend, so she is tapering. When I asked her how far she was going, she said "only 8" then laughed when she realized that a year ago she had never run that far!
Jeanne

Marathoner in Training 10:00 pace coach
Next goal: Help 16yo DD2 do her first Half this fall
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My Little Pal
posted: 1/8/2008 at 12:23 AM
Quote from Cherrieruns on 1/7/2008 at 1:51 AM:
I just have to tell anyone that will listen that I ran 8.3 miles today. I have never, ever ran that far and truth be told never thougt that I could. I feel good, danananana I knew that I would......


Congratulations are certainly in order. Can double digits be far away??
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