National Running Day

 Today is National Running Day.

What did everyone do to celebrate?

Me personally, I ran, in fact I ran twice.

J running in place

Both runs were short but served their purpose. The first one was a short .6 miler with my boy J.The second one was right after J and I got back from our run. I decided that today would a good day to start my 'how fast am I' testing. I thought that it would be a good idea to see just how fast I can run as sort of a control to base further testing on. I had planned on trying to get a 1 mile run in a top speed, but what I hadn't planned on was how the heat would affect me. I managed to get .6 miles at a pace of 6:18 average since I didn't get the whole mile. That however is a full minute faster than my fastest pace and more than 2 minutes faster than my normal pace. The whole run felt like it was in slow motion and about half way through I thought about stopping and just walking the rest of the way home.  I am not a quitter though so I finished it off, and about 3.2 seconds later I wished I had. This little run just about made me PUKE! Boy that sure did suck.  All in all it wasn't a bad day of running. Although I wish I had gotten my punk ass out of bed and ran this morning too.

My beautiful wife after her run.

On a side note, my wife has been trying to get back into a regular schedule of running to get back in shape and raise her fitness level after having our last child. (who happens to be in the picture with her) Mostly I just need an excuse to put a picture of my gorgeous wife on my blog. All in all it was a good day and I hope that we can get the whole family in on the running next year.