So I got my butt out of bed to do some treadmill running at the gym. I set the treadmill for a half-hour. I started my pace at 7.7 (I think mph), and ended up in the final seconds at 9.0. Much of my run was around the 6:50ish pace, and I believe my last 15 minutes (2+ miles) was at a pace below that. I was fighting in my head a bit to stop in the last 10 minutes but I overcame it with the desire to become an athlete. I did alright physically on the treadmill, and turning on some TV images helped distract me from the tedium that often comes with treadmill running for me. Here are the approximate deets, entered manually:
My ankle(s?) flared up but never pinched a few minutes into the run. In my reflection, I could see I was pitched forward in the beginning of my run, so I tried to correct it to stand more erect. It seemed to work, and I felt a bit less huffy. I was surprised that my body functioned so well at such a fast pace because I’ve felt very sluggish.
Because of that, and because of my training goals, I’ve given up ice cream until after my second marathon in November. I had 3 large pieces of white pizza (that is, with ricotta) over the weekend, and with that a Ben & Jerry’s, and I knew that I was seriously rebelling against my health by doing that so I stopped the habit dead. I am aiming to be picky about my eating and focus on my training, work, and relationship through the marathons. I’ve had a lot lot lot of things that have distracted me from running, and while work and relationship do as well, work is hard to do anything about and relationship is, well, a pleasant place to be outside of the other two things. I’ve basically tried to get most of my general semantics activities pushed until my training break in late November so that I won’t touch them. We’ll see how this works. Stuff like getting up at 3am for running and work are not good for my sanity or wakefulness, nor are 13-hour days of sitting around a lot, but what am I gonna do, right? I have some serious goals. To achieve them, I need focus and a strong mind.