Directionally Challenged but a Good Run

One more long run down. Two more before my half-marathon and six more before the big one. Like I said in my previous post - 11 was my goal today. I finished with 11.3 (the .3 was due to the fact I just wasn't back at my apartment yet). I could have stopped to walk but at that point I wanted to get home - it's football Sunday and the games had started! All in all, it was a good run. Rolling hills carried throughout the route but those didn't bother me too much. I can tell I'm getting more and more used to them with each run.

I mapped a run on Mapmyrun and wrote it down on a little piece of paper. I used to do this before I bought my GPS watch but I did it again today because I wanted to run a completely foreign run to change it up. I can follow the skeleton directions and adlib as I see fit. Just call me dyslexic, or maybe even idiotic, because I mixed up most all of the left and right turns in my directions. When did I notice? When it kept saying to turn left or right and it wasn't even an option. I looked like a lost puppy for a majority of the run. "What is going on?" One thing is for sure, it kept me quite occupied for a chunk of the middle part of the run. I figured it out when it was all said and done but that's why I finished 11 miles before I got to my place - I did a lot of turning around and running extra legs during the run. Check out the beat up piece of paper and the amount of turns that I was able to screw up.

I slept in today since I knew it was going to be overcast all day. Waking up pretty hungry, I had a banana and half of an english muffin with peanut butter. I didn't eat the GU this time but I did wear the water belt. GU works for me when it's 12 or over. Close but no cigar today. After my run I grabbed a Fiber One bar. There are plenty of carbs and fiber (obviously) to refuel after the run, but it lacked in the protein area. Oh well - at least I got something in my system. My sister made a spread of awesome apps today for the football games so I got in some good grubbing - but I was able to - I burned over 1300 calories! :-) I averaged around 8:30 minute miles, give or take a bit. To qualify for Boston, I'd need to average 8:20. I think it's possible, but that's not the ultimate goal for my first full. Goal #1: FINISH!

I'll be posting my next week's running schedule on the side bar. I'll have 16 miles next weekend but Chris (my boyfriend) and I are traveling to Louisville so I will have to find a route there.

Have a great week!! :-)