8 Miles.....

Update for the week of July 15th

I was looking forward to this regional run for a couple of reasons:

Venue: Pillar Point Harbor in Half Moon Bay: http://www.smharbor.com/pillarpoint/

Distance: After sawyer's 6 mile, this was to be my longer run, 8 miles. For some reason I have had a big hangup about this number. I knew I would somehow manage 6, but 8 ?!? Beyond my imagination.


Recap:

I had had a knee pain all day friday due to a 5 mile thursday morning run. I almost decided not to go in today, but Pillar Point was too tempting to resist. Plus after hitting snooze three times, I was up and figured that even if couldnt run, the views and a couple of miles of walking would be worth it.

So I went and finished. The run started around 8:00 am and I was back by 9:40 or so. I started with Jocelyn's gang again and ran with them until the 3 mile point. I was mostly on my own from the aide station at 3 mile until the 4 mile turnaround and then back.

The good thing about this - I mostly ran as opposed to run-walk. The bad thing - its much harder mentally to run on your own, although the views were gorgeous and kept me going. Donna, my mentor, a lady in amazing shape met me on my way back and ran upto the finish line.

I felt really tired around 4 miles so decided to eat a bit of the bar I was carrying and drink lots of water. I have to be careful about this next time and will mostly carry some 'GU'.

Its Sunday evening and a couple of noteworthy things:
***I dont have any knee pain, due to some major icing action on saturday
***No headache - all that water that I am gulping down is working)

8 miles..done and gone, unbelievable, atleast to me. 10 miles...here I come.