Extending

I finally quit talking about it and did it. I ran 6 miles yesterday and took right at an hour doing it. I went to a park I haven't run at yet, the one down by Sarah's house and ran there. I liked it for a change of pace. There's a creek that runs thru the center of the park lengthwise and a track that goes down one side of the creek, then crosses over and comes back on the other side. It's a one-mile track so it's about a half mile out and a half mile back.

We had a pretty serious North wind over the weekend, expecially Saturday with gusts up to 50mph (K. Lee had her first softball tournament of the spring this weekend and it was miserable out there Saturday). It calmed down quite a bit Sunday to a 15--25mph wind, and the sun was out so it was a much better day than Saturday. The inward half mile where I ran was right into that wind though, so I'd get hot on the way out, then kind of cold on the way back, but it wasn't bad really.

I did almost call it quits at 5 miles, thinking I didn't want to overdo it, but when I finished the 5th mile and walked for a minute I thought I can sure do one more, so I did. It was actually quite a bit easier than I had anticipated, and I really wasn't sore yesterday evening or today, so I guess I'm building up more endurance than I thought. It's a beautiful day today, and I'll probably try to do 4 miles this evening.