10 miles!!!

Last week we ran 8 miles! It felt great! To pass the time we played the "alphabet" game...You know...I'm going on a marathon and I'm going to bring Apples, Beach Ball, Carrots....It's amazing to let your mind focus on a different task and realize how that can propel you.

Maintainence runs well well but off schedule. Don't think I got enough sleep Monday night and that screwed up my schedule for Tuesday which of course bumped my Thursday run to Friday. At least there was the day in between to recover so I wasn't running back to back days.


This week we jumped up to Double Digits! TEN Miles. Six of us (in our pace group)made it out to College Park for the run. We headed a different way on the path too so we could avoid "Death Valley"-a vast stretch of trail that is wide open with no shade for about 3/4 of a mile. In 90 degree weather with nothing but sunshine it is brutal. The trail we ran this week offered a lot of different scenery, twists and turns, and most important SHADE. We even ran through the back end the FDA experiemental fields where they test different types of organic pest contorl and alternate farming techniques. It was almost like being in rural North Carolina again!

I hit an emotional wall at the end of the run realizing that I have run further than I ever had before and most importantly that I'm still out there running three times a week and not feeling daunted by the milage increase each week.

For the rest of the summer things get a little hectic as Robi and I venture out on a varity of vacations and weekend getaways. We will both miss a handful of our group training runs but are committed to keeping up with them on our own.


Thanks to all of you who have made contributions thus far! Our fundraising deadline is August 1 so keep the donations rolling in.


Also, thanks to Waterboy Will for coming out this week as a water volunteer. It was great to see a familiar face out there on the trail to keep us motivated.