I Can't Believe It

As you know I've been running on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays with my friend Jen. Well, our schedules haven't been lining up for last Friday and Monday so David has been so kind to be patient and run with me in addition to doing his normal routine. Since I haven't been going over Jen's we've just been running around our neighborhood with our route being 0.7 miles total. On Friday I made it to running 0.6 miles at a faster pace than I was used to. Previously Jen and I were running approximately 0.45 miles. My goal on Monday was to kick it up another notch and run the entire route that we had established around here, which would be 0.7 miles. I've been fighting a sinus funk and yesterday was not the day. It was one of the hardest runs since starting. Kind of a bummer but I atleast kept at my 0.6 miles and didn't drop down.

So today I still felt like crap and it's technically a "off day" but you know I just can't be defeated so I decided that today was going to be an additional running day, and David was so gracious to run with me again. I had no high expectations because I'm feeling about the same as I was yesterday. But about halfway through when I do my usual "nerd walk" for a block I felt the urge to keep going, so I did. And I made it the entire route of 0.7 miles running! Woot!! Now mind you that last leg I had to keep encouraging myself by actually talking to myself saying "Come on Heidi. You're almost there." (Poor David), but I did it and I'm proud of myself.