If your body is SCREAMING, tell it to shut up!!!

Some runs are easy. Some runs are hard. Last night's run proved to be hard both mentally and physically. I just couldn't find my groove.  I had to tell my body to be quite multiple times during the 4 mile run.  My legs were burning and heavy and quite frankly I wanted to stop and go home.  However, I continued and ran in the midst of my whining.  The thing about running is you never know when you will have an off day.  It's like a sneaky fox that comes out of no where.  Not sure why I picked a fox, could be anything, but you get the point.  I was determined to not dwell on the difficult run when it was over and simply call it what it was, and move on.  We, the women's running group, ran 4 miles in 40 minutes.  I don't have the exact splits this time because I was trying out a different app.  I have been using RunKeeper and really like it but I wanted to compare apps and see how they measured up to each other as far as distance and pace.  Candace used RunKeeper and I used MapMyRun+.  For some reason her app didn't work.  It said "activity started" but then didn't record any info during the run?! It's a mystery!


This morning was a new day and I had a run scheduled for 6am.  The alarm went off and I got up, got dressed, and hit the road.  I was happy to replace the hard run that I had yesterday with one that I hoped would be easier and more enjoyable.  The first mile was a little tough, but then I found my groove! Yay.  I felt pretty good the remainder of the run.  I went back to using the RunKeeper app.  I really like this app because it records my split times and I can look down at my phone and see the current distance and pace fairly easily during the run.

Splits -

Mile 1 - 10:19
Mile 2 - 9:41
Mile 3 - 9:24

Total distance - 3.26
Time - 31.40

Shalom,

Allie