I thought this was one of my worst runs, but I got three new PRs!
Hi runnit! I likely dont confess to someone about my runs (well, nobody cares, they are lazy anyway) , but I just got back from what I thought was my worst run, and it turned my best!
I am a morning runner, so I usually get up at 6:30AM and I am running by 7AM. This night from 9th to 10th was pretty unhappy to me.
Before run I usually go to sleep around 10PM, so I started watching movie at 8PM yesterday, it was a romance/comedy, This Means War (2012) with 107 minutes lenght. After like 30 minutes, my father called up on Skype (he lives few thousand kilometers away), so we chatted like for an hour, and then mother came, chatted with him too. So when they ended, It was past 10PM. I was like, nah, Ill finish that movie before midnight, 6 hours is still pretty decent sleep. Somewhere in a middle of the movie I noticed this little fly, flying around my lamp and monitor, I was like, whatever. But that little devil started to land on me sometimes, and you know that feeling, when a fly is on your arm/leg. Its nothing pleasant. So I got some newspaper and started to chasing the fly while movie was running. With no luck, it was a small fly and pretty quick. Around midnight I gave it up and went to sleep. We have a pretty hot summer here, so I sleep without my blanket.
But that fly was devilish, It landed on my legs, arms, head, so I was getting notorious and started to feel her everywhere. I got up two times to chase her again, with no success. I couldnt fell asleep and I was pretty nervous, I didnt want to miss my run. So around 3AM, when I was chasing her, I got an idea. I opened my door and went to kitchen for a water. Filled my cup and waited there. Fly came, I finished my water, and sprinted to my room and closed the door. Finally! I got some sleep.
I got up as usuall at 6AM, pretty destroyded and tired, and what was worse, it was raining. I just started running, this was my 12th run, but I never run in rain. So I was like, fuuuck.
I went on my track, and turned my Nike+ app to begin run. I have my audio feedback turned to tell me my stats at the end of run, so I am not distracted by my time and kilometers.
So I started running, and it started to rain more. I got angry and pissed, that this will not be good run.
So I ran it till I started to feel tired, stopped the run on app, and got this:
6,08km at 36:48 minutes, with average pace 6'03''/km!
I was like, whaat the f..., my average pace from all runs is 6'44''/km.
What was the best about it, I got three new Personal Records, Fastest 1k with 5:08, Fastest Mile with 8:22 and Fastest 5k with 29:11!
Gosh I am so happy! Thank you for reading that, I got a lot of encouragement from reading posts in this community since I started running, thank you, runnit users for that too!
Posted Jul 10, 2012, 6:29 AM UTC