The weather could have made the run go either way - it was 57 degrees with 100% humidity, but there was a breeze and we were wearing just a short-sleeved shirt and capris, so we while were chilly for nearly the entire first mile - our thin Texas blood is showing - we warmed up without overheating.
We ran a route that I haven't run in a long time - we headed down the old new road, doing one of the jig jags (but not the other one because Diane was worried we'd encounter wild hogs even though I told her she didn't have to outrun them, she just had to outrun me, LOL), and then we ran the outer perimeter of the fancy neighborhood, which again, I haven't done in forever because it feels like you're always going slightly uphill and you know how I hate running uphill. But this time, it felt good. I never got tired and never wanted to take an extra walk outside of our intervals. We needed to tack on a little extra mileage to hit an even 5 miles, so we ran another jigjag through a little neighborhood close to the clubhouse, and then we were finished.
We started on our cool-down walk back to the clubhouse when out of nowhere Diane said "let's sprint to that light pole" so we took off running. That was hard, but we walked a little bit more and then did another sprint and that one was awesome - I was lifting my knees high as I ran and felt really powerful. We walked a bit more and then did one last sprint, which again, was fantastic. What was happening? This was so good! I was a good runner. I haven't been a good runner in years. But on Saturday, something magical happened and I ran like Runner Shelley circa 2010.
Five miles, and it wasn't a struggle. Five miles, and I liked running. Five miles, and I felt good about the run. Five miles, and everything changed. This run will stay with me forever.
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BCS Fitness update: I've started doing some light jumping and hopping - after tearing my calf muscle doing mountain climbers, you can imagine my trepidation about doing any kind of explosive movement, but I'm testing the waters, very carefully, and so far it's been good. I'm not going all out; last week we had either a three-minute burpee test OR three minutes of doing thrusters - I chose thrusters because I'm so slow with burpees that I knew I'd get more out of the thrusters. I had my hands on a bench in an angled push up form, and would pop my feet back and then pop them up toward the bench. Anyway, I was doing a POP, pause, POP, pause and it got less scary with each POP. My bench neighbor was doing a POP, POP, POP, POP - and I admired that, but I'm still in the cautious stage. It's all good.
I finished boxing that bag and still had about 90 seconds left so Jared told me to do a bridge hold. Honestly this was the easiest part of the entire 30 minute workout!
Oh, I hit the Perfect 10 attendance club again - actually I think I worked out 13 times in January, so I'm pretty pleased with that. Showing up, doing the workouts and being willing to push myself are all things that are helping to make me fitter and stronger. And maybe, all of this is contributing to better running? That was my plan...could it possibly be working??
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