This morning one of my training buddies and I did 10 miles….we think. You see, I was wearing my Garmin Forerunner 305 and she was using her iPod with the Nike + and for some reason our devices were about a mile or so off from each other. So, when my Garmin said 4 miles, her iPod said 4.98. So, we either covered close to 12 miles, or 10.57 miles. Has anyone ever had problems with the calibration on their Garmin? I’m wondering now if all the runs I’ve done with it have been off.
Before the run, I ate a peanut butter sandwich, and a couple of PowerBar Gel Blasts.
Then, I was off!
Whee!!
I met up with my training buddy, it was just the two of us today (normally we are a group of three) since our third partner is at a wedding out in Florida this weekend. I had already planned on making this an “easy” 10 miles because I’m really not interested in burning myself out the week before my first race. It worked out perfectly, we ran parts of the way, but walked most of it and I was totally fine with that. I really just wanted to get this run accomplished. I’m planning on doing two or three 2 milers during the week and pushing myself more during those. We haven’t really had any formal training plan for this race, but I’m ok with that. After we ran our first 12 miles, and I finished in just under 3 hours, I knew I could manage the 13 miles in the course time of 3.5 hours if not better.
Last night I was antsy, and decided to take a handwriting analysis. What can I say? I was bored. So, I wrote out the silly sentence they provide for you and moved forward. According to part of the analysis based on where I cross my T’s, I tend to give my power away, and believe others when they say I am unable to do something. The more I was thinking about this, the more I realized how true it has been in my life. I can’t remember the exact wording but the site mentioned something like “someone once told you you weren’t a great and beautiful person, and you believed them…”
There have been several times in my life when I’ve let the negative views and words of others change how I feel about myself and my own life and plans. I’m working on a more in depth blog about that, but during this run I tried to focus on the positives, the amazing things I have accomplished in this training period.
The Disneyland Half Marathon is a week from tomorrow and while I’m a little scared, I know I can do it!
Later today I’m doing make up for a girl I went to high school with who is attending a wedding, picking up Travis from LAX and then it’s off to a nice dinner with my parents for belated birthday celebrations. Yay!
Question:Â Do you let other people take away your positive energy?
 I haven’t decided if I’m bringing my computer along with or not.