Running Adventures Mini-Adventure #3 - Let's Run

This is a short, Mini-Adventure podcast which takes you with me on a run with my daughter and the "interesting" things we talk about when we run.

My mini-adventure music is Michael Mucklow’s Pipe’s Canyon Sunset.


Thanks for coming along!

Running Evolution

I think that my running is evolving over time. Kind of the way that our life evolves over time. It starts out fresh and new, matures, and evolves as life changes and adjusts. It is all good!

I was noticing that I am not posting as often as I used to here on the blog - life and it's many distractions causes me to change my focus. Change is a good thing. I saw a good quote this morning. It goes something like "I am not retreating, I am advancing in a different direction." I like that quote :-)

But I am running! I am not quite up to 20+ miles a week but should hit that in the coming week. My long run of 5 miles was long and slow - 12:30-ish pace of running 1 min and walking 1 minute. But the speed will come, and the ease of the run will come. On the one hand it is disappointing to see how small the number of miles are and how slow they can be - but on the other hand, I know one key thing:

I have done this before!!!

I have started out at this point and built up to those brutal 22 mile training runs. I have started here and built up to the 10:30 min/mi pace for a 5 miler. I have conquered this hill before, and I know I can do it again.

So, I am rejoicing, because I get out there, I run-walk-move, and I get it done!

And that is good enough for me!