Running Away

So don't tell anyone I'm on here. I should be studying.. But I have to share something from this morning. And by the way, this is completely about me and kind of boring (I'm sure) if you're not me.

I think some of you know this about me, I love running. Over the summer I was running 4 miles 6 days a week. It was always at a <8 min pace. However, nursing school hit and I stopped doing so many 4 miles but my pace stayed up. Then In December I hurt my foot. I'm still not sure how or doing what.. But I couldn't run on it. So I took 2 months off of running. Starting back in February, I was slow. I mean slow. I was at an 8:30 pace, which seemed horrendous to me. So since then I've been working. School has stood in my way a lot but slowly I've been getting faster. I have consistently been around an 8:15 for a couple of weeks now. That's running 3 miles (which is what I'm currently running) in 24:45. I've been ok with that. It's progress and my workouts have been really getting me.

Until today. This morning when we went to the lake to run it was 60 degrees. The wind was like 100 mph out of the South.. (well maybe not 100.. probably closer to 30.. idk wind speeds..) The wind was hard out if the South. It was perfect conditions, except for the wind. I caught the wind on my way back (I run down 1.5 miles and then come back) and was able to push through it and keep a good pace. In fact, after the wind, running took very little effort at all. I wasn't trying excessively hard to run a fast pace, I was just doing what felt natural. I started getting tired with a quarter of a mile to go, but pushed through it.

When my british lady in my Ipod said "congratulations, you have reached your goal of 3 miles" I pushed "end workout" to hear my report of my run. To my astonishment it said a 23:27. That's a 7:47 minute pace according to my Ipod! If you run, you know that cutting 30 seconds off of your pace is incredible!

So I'm proud of myself. There I said it. I know pride isn't a desirable characteristic in a person, but I'm happy that I made that pace today. Now whenever I run next, I'm sure it won't be at that pace. I'm sure I just ate all the right things and drank just the perfect amount of water yesterday. And subconsciously I was probably intending to run away from finals... But whatever it is, it was a huge confidence boost and put me in an incredible mood...

:) I hope everyone has a great weekend!