It was another 16 km on the schedule for yesterday. I got myself ready and headed out the door and within the first 30 seconds the rain started to come down. I turned around and went back to the house. The thought of not doing the run wasn't on my mind, I went back from my rain coat. What made me stick it out was reading about some of my friend's friends training for their Ironman and having to run in the winter during snow storms. There was NO WAY I was going to let a few drops of rain stop me from going for my run!
It was really hot and muggy but I threw the coat on and went back out there. I wore the coat for about 1 km and the rain pretty much stopped and it was way to hot out to be wearing it anyway. I had my route mapped out but when it came time to turn around I didn't want to so I just kept going. The path took me to Brant Street where I lost the path. I didn't enjoy running for over a kilometer on the sidewalk and I really felt over all that took a lot out of me.
Overall it was a tough run yesterday being challenging physically. I didn't think about too much so mentally I felt okay. Sometimes when I'm out I go over things again and again in my mind and I know that sometimes I can work things out that way but it wasn't that yesterday. I was really feeling it when I was coming back down the bike path from Walkers and met up with my concrete sidewalk. I made my way over to the school to finish up the distance. It was about 8 laps around the track to wrap up the run and I decided that I could either think about it hurting or just push through and get the run done. So that's what I did and after making that decision it didn't hurt as badly. Funny how the mind works.
Anyway, yesterday chalked up my second 16 km my longest distance ever! Bring on the 12 km next week!
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