First double digit run!

clhagan

posted: 1/19/2008 at 2:44 PM

I did my first 10 mile run EVER this morning. I meet a running group on Saturdays (training for the Little Rock Marathon/Half-Marathon) and our run today was HILLY! In fact, on the course handouts he titled it, "OUCHO RUN". Shocked

Good lord, it was hard! But now that it is under my belt (literally, haha!) I feel great!

---- Cynthia

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Fanatic #3965

posted: 1/19/2008 at 2:51 PM

Doesn't stuff like that make ya' feel so strong and accomplished! You rock, girl! Big grin

k

Kirsten

'07: 1324.5 | '08: 1561 | '09: 1810.9 run ~ 208.7 bike | '10: 1,000.3 run ~ 3513.5 bike | '11: 710.3 run ~ 4157.9 bike '12: 659.9 run ~ 3365.6 bike (100% benched by ortho last 4.5 weeks while in long-arm cast)

'13 Goals:

• DON'T BREAK ANYTHING!!!

• get within 5#s of 130#s (and stay there, gotdammit!)

• 1st olympic distance duathlon

• 1st Iceman Cometh mtn bike race

• Half Fanatic

• punch Type 1 in the junk

kooky2003

Now that was a bath...

posted: 1/19/2008 at 3:07 PM

Well done girl! Wallow in that post-run high.

jlynnbob "HTFU, Kookie's distal tibia"

Where's my closet? I need to get back in it.

munchkn883

posted: 1/19/2008 at 3:49 PM

Congratulations!! Enjoy the high!!

rvelich

Another Passion

posted: 1/20/2008 at 9:11 PM
modified: 1/20/2008 at 9:11 PM

Congratualtions Cynthia! That's awesome! To coin Bonkin, I remember my first 10 mile run like it was just a few months ago! Oh wait... it was just a few months ago! Big grin

Rick
"The will to win means nothing without the will to prepare." - Juma Ikangaa
"I wanna go fast." Ricky Bobby
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Mississippi

posted: 1/20/2008 at 9:15 PM

Very cool!! Isn't it wonderful! It's the kind of pain we don't seem to mind. Smile

DrewEOB

Idiot

posted: 1/20/2008 at 9:26 PM

Awesome job, Cynthia! I remember my first 10+ miler. It was brutal. Congrats on gutting out a tough run.

Yes, I do "run in this." So should you. The weather is never as bad as it seems from behind your office or car window.

runner92

Just Be

posted: 1/21/2008 at 1:09 AM

Congrats!

That first 10 miler is such a major accomplishment. Now that you've crushed it it shouldn't psyche you out anymore! Next thing you know you'll be breaking the half marathon mark!

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greenrunning

posted: 1/22/2008 at 12:20 PM

I did my first 10 miler this weekend too! Do you notice that as you gradually work up to these numbers and accomplish them, they don't sound so scary anymore? If I tell non-running friends that I ran 10 miles they think it's insane. They always throw out some relative distance, like "dude that's like from my house to my office and back...you're crazy."

modal

posted: 1/22/2008 at 12:47 PM
modified: 1/22/2008 at 12:47 PM

Great job on breaking double digits! How are them 1223's suiting you? I remember back in the early 2000s meeting this guy who ran 5 miles every morning. Personally thought it was crazy at the time. I still think running 10 miles a day (regardless of weather) as a commute in Western Canada is crazy, but that's what one guy who works for my current employer does. "dude that's like from my house to my office and back...you're crazy." Friend of mine refuses to walk to work even though he is less than a mile through a residential area too!

Vim

clhagan

posted: 1/22/2008 at 1:52 PM

Quote from greenrunning on 1/22/2008 at 12:20 PM:

Do you notice that as you gradually work up to these numbers and accomplish them, they don't sound so scary anymore?

YES!! A few months ago 5 miles scared me. Now I have a few weeks to get used to 10. Cool

---- Cynthia

clhagan

posted: 1/22/2008 at 1:53 PM

Quote from modal on 1/22/2008 at 12:47 PM:

Great job on breaking double digits! How are them 1223's suiting you? I remember back in the early 2000s meeting this guy who ran 5 miles every morning. Personally thought it was crazy at the time. I still think running 10 miles a day (regardless of weather) as a commute in Western Canada is crazy, but that's what one guy who works for my current employer does. "dude that's like from my house to my office and back...you're crazy." Friend of mine refuses to walk to work even though he is less than a mile through a residential area too!

I love the 1223's, they are SO COMFORTABLE! Worth every penny! I can't imagine running 10 miles to work. I'd need a shower and a full set of makeup and blowdryer in my desk! LOL! Big grin

---- Cynthia

azredbirds052

Maniac

posted: 1/22/2008 at 9:12 PM

My buddy is running the half in LR....He trains with that group sometimes, but hasn't lately. His name is Greg...Shorter guy, dark hair...Really talkative...Like a hamster on Meth...

Marathon Maniac #6740

Goals for 2013:

Run 3 Marathons in less than 6 weeks

PF Chang's Rock N Roll Arizona Marathon (1/20/2013--4:13:19)
Lost Dutchman Marathon (2/17/2013--4:34:27)
Phoenix Marathon (03/02/2013--4:17:31)

Run 1,500+ miles

pandajenn19

posted: 1/23/2008 at 12:55 PM

Congrats! That's a huge milestone, and definitely one to be proud of. Smile

Good luck with the rest of your training, and let's hope for some decent weather on race day, too.

trishierunner

esq.

posted: 1/23/2008 at 1:14 PM

Great job, Cyn!!

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