Today I finished 6.2 miles. That's a 10k. It may
sound a little vain, but I was super proud of myself. That was a huge
deal to me and 6 miles had seemed pretty overwhelming. I walked a lot
today, which was in part to hang with the folks I was with and in part
to follow Dr's orders for my pregnancy. But walking or running, first or
last, it didn't matter. I finished. I did a 10K today! That has had me
on Cloud 9 for most of the day.
All along in
this training process, I've been a bit hard on myself and easily
discouraged thinking "I've never done 5 miles" "There's no way I could
do 8 miles" "13 miles might as well be 1000." And then on my way home, I
realized something. I realized that though I haven't run those miles
before, I've hiked. We have done a good bit of hiking in my family and a
couple of years ago I was doing a bootcamp training and felt invincible
and decided to try and do Mt. Whitney. My dad signed on and we trained
together and we hiked various mountains and logged a good number of
miles. Our longest pre-Whitney, was 9 miles round trip. On the day of
Whitney, we didn't summit, we hadn't trained enough for the 22 mile
round trip. BUT, we did make it just over 11 miles round trip. Only
half, yes, but nearly a full half marathon of distance!
Today,
that made me pretty excited. All of the sudden, training for the
Tinkerbell race didn't seem so crazy. I've done longer hikes. And I did
11 miles at pretty high elevation and crazy steep trails. So the streets
of Anaheim and Disneyland won't be quite so daunting.
It
was nice to realize fully, not only can I do this, but in many ways I
have done this distance before, and I didn't train nearly as well as I
am this time around!
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