9/21/08 Training

This morning on the schedule was a 15k which is about a 9.3 mile run. As I got up and started to put my stuff on, I decided to set my nike + to 10 miles. The time was about 7:30 am, the air was clear and it was about 50 degrees. I purchase a hand water bottle by ulitmate direction but don't know how I feel about that yet. It seemed heavy and I almost annoyed about carrying it so maybe I will be a fuel belt instead.

It looked like rain as I got about two miles out but I thought to take my chances afterall we do live in Eugene and we do get rain and lots of it at that. So I stuck to my plan and decided to take the normal route leaving my house heading towards the trail that goes to the mall and it was perfect and clear no rain yet.

The run was okay felt like I was going about the same pace as normal long run but who knows the way that I was feeling I just wanted to get the run over with it.

I made it to mile number five and I took the rest of the shot blocks and drank the 20oz of water. I did feel a little tired but this gave me the boost that I needed, the blocks were so annoying they stuck to my teeth, I think I spent two minutes trying to clean the gu from out my teeth and the water didn't help much after removing what i could from my teeth I continue running. I found another little path around the all and decided to run that for about a mile.

As I moved on my way back i felt a little drizzle of rain. I was hoping that it would only sprinkle until i got home as I never experienced running in the rain. Well after mile number 8 so close out of the trail and almost home the rain went from drizzle to rain and kept picking up. I don't know if this really slowed me down, I really was trying to get home and out of the rain. I have to say that I am proud that I continued my run despite the ran. I guess I am officially a runner now.