Darn water bottles,VFF'S, Happy Mother's Day

                                 I want to wish  all the  MOM'S,  A  HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY.

What a great way to start  my Mother's Day.    Got up at 5.30 to get ready to meet T at the gym, so we could get our long run in this week.  We drove the route and dropped off our water bottles, so we would have something to drink on our run. As we are dropping off our bottles we are talking and not paying much attention to where we are dropping them off at.

As we are coming up to our first water stop, we  were able to find them pretty easily.  We continued  on our run and  as we are getting closer to the next water stop, we can't seem to remember where we put them. I thought is was close to a road sign.  So here we are looking for our stupid water bottles. I couldn't believe that we couldn't  see those  bottles, but in the  grass it was not  easy to see them.    We get to our last water stop before the turn around.   I thought we put it at one sign and T thought we put it at another.  We missed that one the first time  around as we went by.  We were hoping to  catch it on the way back.  On the way back we are looking for those water bottles.  We literary had to stop and search  the side of the road, we couldn't find them.   We did not give up tho.  Finally we  found them by a sign.   LESSON LEARNED. Put water bottles closer to the road.   You would think we would remember that  from last year.


Today, was the longest run that  I have done  in my vff's, which was 12.4 miles.  At mile 5 the inside of my right thigh felt like something had gotten strained.   I just kept trying to run threw it.  By mile10  the balls of my feet were  feeling sore and tired.  I just kept going , because I didn't want T to have to stop because of me. In the end Got're done. Yahoo

Dam to Dam 20K is in 26 days.   COUNTDOWN TIME

 I went  home and iced my inter thigh and my feet.  I have been using the foam roller on them. You are probably thinking how am I doing that?  It has been working really well, especially for the balls and arches of my feet.  Here is a picture.  I'm holding on to my washer, in order to keep my balance.

 

                           Have you ever used a foam roller on your feet?

                         How did you celebrate Mother's Day?

Feeling it today in my vff's

Since my long run did  not  go so  well yesterday. I'm looking to redeem myself.

 
Weather permitting I was going on another long run, but this time it was going to be in my vff's.  Cold toes or not.   I got all my stuff on and headed to town. I'm thinking I'll do at  least 9 miles in my vff's.  My thoughts were just to take it slow and easy.  To see how my feet were going to feel today.


 The  1st mile I was feeling pretty good, so much easier then yesterdays run  in my running shoes. At mile 3 I'm checking myself to see how my legs  and feet are  feeling.  My  legs are still feeling pretty relaxed and no  pain in my feet.. ( I wish I felt this good every time I ran).  For the first time since last October I was starting to get into a rhythm and it  was feeling  pretty good. I can't say  that I have had much rhythm, due to the lack of running  long distance.  By the time I reached 9 miles, I was already thinking I should push  it to 10.  Yahoo, 10  miles in my vff's.  That is  my  longest run in them so far. 


I'm running   Dam to Dam  in June and it is a  20k.  I've been playing with  what shoes I should wear for a while now..  My running shoes vs  vff's. After today's run I'm looking at running the whole 12.4 miles in my vff's.  So  I better get down to business and keep on pushing it.  I have  2.4 more miles to push it.

I know how I think, so when the race  gets here I  will  probably be second guessing myself.  Can I really run 12.4 miles in my vff's.  I know it is a mental game I  play with myself.  I just hope I don't have a panic attack at the starting line, because I'm stressing out about running Dam to Dam in vff's.

My Chief

Mile 1- 11.10                   Mile 6- 11.07
Mile 2-10.56                    Mile 7- 11.16
Mile 3- 10.50                   Mile 8- 11.10
Mile 4-10.50                    Mile 9-11.25
Mile 5-11.46                    Mile 10- 10.52