Some martial arts classes were missed this week because Scott was sick for a few days.\u00a0 He’s better now thank goodness!<\/p>\n
I will tell you about my long run today because it was amazing and frustratingly challenging all at the same time!<\/p>\n
I got to bed early Saturday night, 10:30pm, which is my goal for the night before a long run.\u00a0 Friday night I was in bed before 10pm. Why yes, I am a party animal.\u00a0 Anyway, despite getting to bed early, I was so tired when I got up this morning.\u00a0 I felt like I didn’t sleep at all!\u00a0 Not that I was tossing and turning but more like, I felt as if I didn’t get enough sleep.\u00a0 I was dragging.<\/p>\n
I also felt like I didn’t eat enough yesterday to prepare for this morning’s long run.\u00a0 I’m also out of oat bars so I was searching around for a quick snack before hitting the road this morning.\u00a0 I ended up eating a small handful of Kashi sesame crackers.<\/p>\n
I started my run and it was surprisingly cold this morning.\u00a0 It was sunny though and that was so nice!\u00a0 Oh but my legs were so tired in the beginning.\u00a0 They felt really heavy and like I was plodding along.<\/p>\n
I originally was going to just run 9 miles but last week during my 9, I felt really awesome and totally like I could go that extra mile and hit 10.\u00a0 I had in the back of my mind today that 10 was a possibility.<\/p>\n
Once I got to 5.5 miles I was wondering how much farther I was going to be able to go.\u00a0 That’s when the negative defeatist thoughts started creeping in.<\/p>\n
“Oh man, I still have another 5 miles to go!”<\/p>\n
“I dunno if 10 is going to happen today.”<\/p>\n
“Can I seriously make this loop three more times?”<\/p>\n
And then I just started chanting to myself, “Two more times, two more times.”\u00a0 And then, “One more time, one more time.”<\/p>\n
I flip-flopped all the way till the last minute and I finally said to myself, “What better way to kick off birthday week (holla!) then getting in your first double digit run?”<\/p>\n
And so I did!\u00a0 10 miles in the bag! 
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It was slow but I don’t even really care about pace.\u00a0 I did 10 miles with no problem and I’m seriously happy with that.\u00a0 My legs are doing well and no ill side effects.\u00a0 I will be able to stay at ten for a bit then ease up to 13 and be totally ready for my half in May.<\/p>\n
I’m feeling really confident about my upcoming races and I’m really happy with my training so far!<\/p>\n
Two things I know for sure, training for this race on my own terms was a huge factor in getting me to where I am injury free.\u00a0 Incorporating strength training has ensured that my legs are strong and ready to take on the distances with ease.<\/p>\n
10 miles, baby! Woo!<\/strong><\/p>\n Are you a distance runner? How do you handle the increased mileage, do you have to take it slow or can you increase your miles with ease?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Guys I have been so slacking in the recording work-outs department!\u00a0 I need to write the summary right after I workout and sometimes I don’t get a chance to.\u00a0 Either I’m working on something else or I’m in the kitchen developing recipes. Rest assured I am working out everyday! I typically update my twitter account […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[53],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4KYWa-2N3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10729"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}