best run ever!

So I didn't have the greatest 16 mile run like Christine, but on Sunday morning I thouroughly appreciated the rain while running 5 miles around Calhoun and a little bit of Harriet. Kathy and I both mentioned around mile 2 1/2 I think that we were both wanting to stop running, but oh well...we kept going and I was actually surprised when we were at the end of Calhoun, ready to cross back over to Harriet.

Toward the last mile or so, I wanted to keep speeding up, but I didn't because I didn't want to poop out or anything. but the last 1/2 mile I definitely stepped it up, just because I was feeling pretty good at that point. Quite soggy, but my shins didn't hurt (yay new shoes!) and I was breathing well; overall much, much better than Thursday's run.

We raced back to the pavilion (Kathy always beats me with her blinding speed) but then she looked at her watch and had some amazing news: we ran 5 miles in 53 minutes!!

1hr to me is a successful 5mi run, but wow! 53 minutes is like 10.5minutes/mi! Insane!!

So while I still have to psych myself up to try the 1mile timed run, at least I have a little bit of encouragement that this training thing is doing some good. I can now look forward to the longer runs, thinking they might not take quite as long as I was thinking...