With the holidays here, Run Camp didn't meet officially this week. On the schedule I had to laugh because for the 25th they listed the mileage we were suppose do our long run as "on your own". I secretly wonder how many people really ran that day. When you're on your own, it's easy to cheat! For the record, I actually did run, just not very far. But I get to qualify that because I had made arrangements and called in my support group (okay, support person Crazy Train) to do our long run the next day. It also just so happened that one of our group leaders also decided to do a group run, so we ended joining them. Can two other people and the group leader really be a "them"? When you include the two of us, for a grand total of five people, I guess so. Eh, I was happy.
Every superhero has a weakness, heck that's the link that makes them seem human. I'm sworn to secrecy, but I know CT's Kryptonite. I'm going to share this information with my blog only because nobody reads it, so it will remain a secret, but when it comes to hills she becomes much more human! Why do I bring this up? Because, I'm taking FULL credit when I cure her of this deficiency! Oh yeah, I'm going to brag about it, hell maybe the Biggest Loser will come knocking on my door for the next trainer gig. Being only our third run together, I already noticed an improvement. About a mile into our run a long mile hill started. One of the other people in the group clearly struggled with it, so I kind of hung back and tried to keep that person motivated, the whole time smiling as CT powered up and to the end of this monster hill.
The group ended up deciding on doing eight miles. It was a good run, even though we tended to stop more often than I like. I can't be positive, but I think CT would have been happy doing eight, if "on your own" is easy to cheat, what good is a partner that doesn't push? This week was my turn to push us. We said quick good-byes to our group, then CT and I split off to add an extra mile or two. Even though I was very proud of how CT did in hills earlier, I headed right to the biggest hills that I knew of (remember my game from my previous entry). At one point she actually made a comment to me that made me think she was debating quitting or maybe it was just that she was very displeased with me. Either way, I can't remember the exact phrase because I was so out of breath myself, my brain wasn't functioning, but I swear it happened! I know I didn't hallucinate it! Once out of the hills, she admitted it felt good and thanked me. Looking at our stats from our run, we actually got faster in the hills, which I think is damn impressive. We are going to rock this marathon.
So....why the broken ornament in the picture? Well, besides it representing the first and LAST time the Christmas tree has been up in my house for fear of what the cats will do to it. In the coming weeks, many distance records are going to be broken like this ornament, but this week is special because it represents the first time I've completed double digits in a single run, 10.17 to be exact! Oh, and if for some reason it didn't convey to words in this blog entry, I feel FANTASTIC!
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