Day 19 - 2 miles

No run yesterday, so was looking forward to getting back out today, which should have been my rest day.

It has been a beautiful day. My afternoon meeting was cancelled, so I had time to go for a run after picking up my son from Sunday School.

First of all I think I need to stretch more before starting. I cycled to church and back with my boys on the bike and I thought that would be a good warm up.
Then, I did some stretching but immediately on starting I had a feeling of a sharp pain down the front of my right leg.
More stretching needed!

The first half km I felt my legs heavy and felt I was running well within myself. Then I remembered that I had not drunk a couple of glasses of water which i usually do about a half hour before running. That was psychologically bad. However, I pushed myself to keep going. On getting round the new route and coming back on to the old route I looked at my watch and saw that i was at least a minute up, and decided to push on, but there was no energy. I started to feel bad. I could sense my body searching but my stomach was empty. I decided to keep on at the same pace. As I turned to the last straight my mind said "kick on" but my body said "stop". I managed to keep going and right round to the end.

Looked at my watch and it 19 mins 04 seconds.
That is 2 mins 9 secs secs quicker than 2 nights ago!

WOW!! That is awesome!

It also means I was running 9.32 secs miles!

I am impressed with that!

It felt good. I was a little out of breath at the end and must try to slow down a bit till I am used to the distance.

Very encouraged!