{"id":5247,"date":"2009-04-26T13:28:25","date_gmt":"2009-04-26T17:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/?p=5247"},"modified":"2009-04-26T13:36:10","modified_gmt":"2009-04-26T17:36:10","slug":"april-26th-2009-breakfast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/2009\/04\/april-26th-2009-breakfast\/","title":{"rendered":"April 26th, 2009: Breakfast"},"content":{"rendered":"

Helloooo!!\u00a0 Can we get right to talking about how I ran 10 miles today<\/strong>?\u00a0 Holy hell y’all I’m still processing the fact that I ran freaking 10 miles today!<\/p>\n

I got up and got Rocky taken care of as quickly as possible.\u00a0 It took me a while to get everything together before leaving the house this morning because I had to fill my CamelBak and load it with essentials.\u00a0 Cell phone, fuel, chapstick, all the necessities.<\/p>\n

Once that was done I headed out the door and to the local trail.\u00a0 We have a rails to trails park here and since it’s close I figured I could use that for my long run.\u00a0 It starts downtown and I can easily walk there.\u00a0 The walk to the trail is about 15-20 minutes which sort of stinks.\u00a0 Not that it’s a bad walk just that it’s added on time to an already long run.\u00a0 The only downside is that I didn’t really like walking through downtown in my running clothes.\u00a0 Unless I drive, I for sure will not be wearing any running skirts!<\/p>\n

I made it to the trail and stretched for a minute to get my already warmed up muscles a little bit more juice, then I was off.\u00a0 My Camelbak weighted me down a good bit.\u00a0 I was already taking it slow but this made me even slower.\u00a0 I was pacing over a 12-minute mile, that’s slow.\u00a0 New factors contributed to this.<\/p>\n

1. New route that I’ve never done before.<\/p>\n

2. Camelbak<\/p>\n

3. Stupid new running shirt<\/p>\n

This route guys was torturous!\u00a0 Oh wow but I didn’t think I was going to make it.\u00a0 It’s just this straight flat path with nothing to look at.\u00a0 Once you get past a park and the last housing development you are in the “country”.\u00a0 Flat land with nothing around, not even houses and you’re just running on this straight path through the middle of farm fields. It sounds serene but when you’re putting in distance it gets a little old.\u00a0 Plus there is no shade from trees so the sun is just beating down on you.\u00a0 I’m going to have to bust out my sunvisor if I run it again.<\/p>\n

Because it was a new route I had no landmarks yet to associate with distance.\u00a0 I was just running from mile marker to mile marker which seemed so long!\u00a0 Oh my goodness I didn’t think I was going to make it but I told myself that I’ve already ran 9.5 miles, running 10 is no big deal.<\/p>\n

Remember my shirt I got from Ladies’ Night at the running store?<\/a> I wore that today and piss on it, I’m not wearing it again.\u00a0 First it’s very hot.\u00a0 It has a lot of air pockets and mesh so I thought it would be cooloer.\u00a0 Not so much.\u00a0 Second it kept riding up on me leaving my bellah hanging out.\u00a0 I tried tucking it in my pants but that didn’t work.\u00a0 Finally I said, “Eff it!” and tucked it up around my sports bra.\u00a0 It was hot and by this point I didn’t care if my ghost white bellah was hanging out for all to see.<\/p>\n

When I finally hit the 5-mile mark, after rejoicing, I took a small walk break to drink some water.\u00a0 Then picked back up again with a slightly faster pace.\u00a0 Going back is so much easier then heading out!\u00a0 I knew where I was and knew what the landmarks meant in terms of distance.\u00a0 It was still rough but I knew I was going home and knew that I could pull this off.<\/p>\n

I took more small walk breaks here and there because I was so hot, I knew I needed the hydration.\u00a0 Thankfully I wore my wristbands to help wipe the sweat off my face.\u00a0 I started passing and being passed by more people on the trail as the time got later in the morning.<\/p>\n

Hitting the end of the trail was the most glorious thing!\u00a0 I was done and just completed my first 10-mile run!\u00a0 It was hard physically and mentally but I pushed through and did it!<\/p>\n

I stretched for a minute and drank some water.\u00a0 Then I pulled out a Clif fruit strip that I cut into bite size pieces and ate that on the walk back home.\u00a0 The walk home gave me a chance for a nice cool down but I ran out of water! :o\u00a0 So either I drank more than I thought or maybe I didn’t fill up my Camelbak enough.\u00a0 It was my first time using it so who knows.<\/p>\n

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x2<\/p><\/div>\n

Once home, I slammed two huge classes of CS<\/abbr> and then started stretching.\u00a0 My Scotty got up while I was streching and I briefly mumbled somethign to him in the form of a greeting.\u00a0 I headed upstairs and showered.\u00a0 Then I came downstairs to make breakfast because I was STARVING!\u00a0 I burned a silly crazy amount of cals on this run so I needed to fuel back up.<\/p>\n

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much needed <\/p><\/div>\n

Oatbran! That’s all I wanted.\u00a0 Quick and it will get the job done.<\/p>\n

With coffee!\u00a0 I added some brown sugar to this mix because we’re out of bananas.\u00a0 I also put in some blueberries and raspberries for fruit boost.\u00a0 Topped with walnuts, cranberries, and some cashew butter.\u00a0 Naturally I inhaled this. ;)<\/p>\n

I’m now chugging water like it’s my job. :D\u00a0 And I’m about to go have some more to eat!<\/p>\n

Things I’ve learned:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Fuel is important.\u00a0 Either I need to have a snack Saturday evening or I need a bigger snack before my run.\u00a0 1\/2 a Clif bar before heading out did not cut it today.\u00a0 Especially not with this hot weather.<\/p>\n

I need to seriously think how I want to handle my Camelbak for the race.\u00a0 It weighted me down a good bit but I used it so does one outweigh the other?\u00a0 I’ll have to decide.<\/p>\n

New courses lag me down as well because I don’t know where I’m going.<\/p>\n

The fruit strip did a good job but I’ll probably need some shot blocks or moons for additional sodium.<\/p>\n

Okay guys, I’m wiped out.\u00a0 I need some more food and I need to ice my knee and rest.\u00a0 Whew!\u00a0 But go me, 10 miles!!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Helloooo!!\u00a0 Can we get right to talking about how I ran 10 miles today?\u00a0 Holy hell y’all I’m still processing the fact that I ran freaking 10 miles today! I got up and got Rocky taken care of as quickly as possible.\u00a0 It took me a while to get everything together before leaving the house […]<\/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":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4KYWa-1mD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5247"}],"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=5247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}