Sunday December 18th - 10 mile

So I bought my new water bottle belt so I would be ready for the 10 mile run. Since we were having out X-mas party at 11am, we decided to take the dogs on the run for 3 miles to tire them out. I never can get a good run in with the dogs, so I decided to use those first 3 miles as a warm up. We chose to run out and back and with all the delays, I just didn't even track anything via time. After the 3 miles, we refueled and were off. Drew said we should go a nice long easy run. With that I took my running gear from a 3/4 to 2nd gear and ran smooth. I took off from Drew since he's still recovering from being sick and not running as frequent as I am. So with only 7 miles to go, it was a piece of cake. I enjoyed the views of the water, the boats, etc and sure enough I was at mile 7 (of 10) already. I ran back still just easy/controlled/relaxed and it was nice. I didn't push it at all and knew I wasn't at my normal pace but was fine with it. When I finished, realizing that I just ran over 10 miles, the first thought that came to my head was, "That was awesome". I was ready to go again.

Next Sunday is only 7 miles.