Practice Makes Progress

Who woulda thunk it, right?  Practice does indeed translate into progress.....it's genius, I swear! Why did it take me 31yrs to realize this and actually put it into action?  Have I been living in a hole?  Under a rock?  Why have I not already earned myself that 13.1 bumper sticker?  why? WHY? Why didn't someone slap me and say "get off your badunkadunk" or better yet, "get off your badunkadunk and become a runner while you live in beautiful, sunny, 70 degree San Diego where you can enjoy nice long runs along the gorgeous pacific ocean admiring palm trees and cool breezes instead of waiting till you move back to the east coast into a hilly neighborhood where the humidity is bananas and the thermostat is only gonna keep going up...that is until summer's over and then you'll get to suffer from hypothermia during your runs and your ears will hurt so bad from the cold that it will feel like needles being poked into your brain"......whoa, sorry bout that, got a wee bit carried away, and for the record I don't know for sure if cold ears in the winter will feel like needles to my brain, it's really just an assumption.....forgive me.  Let's move one...

Today marks the start of week 5 in my training schedule!  I can't believe I'm actually still excited about running after 5 weeks full of high's and low's.  I've had some awesome runs and I've had some not so awesome runs, but at the end of the day I get 'er done, so that's all that counts!  Here is a quick look back at all of my 3 mile runs over the past 4 weeks....

5/21/2011
time: 36:21
pace: 12:07

5/26/2011
time: 35:23
pace: 11:45

6/01/2011
time: 31:52
pace: 10:37

6/07/2011
time: 30:24
pace: 10:07

6/09/2011
time: 33:25
pace: 11:04 (this was my "cramp in the side...not...gonna...make...it...run")

6/14/2011 
time: 30:15
pace: 10:05


TOOT, TOOT!!! (That's me tooting my own horn in case you were confused)

I'm supposed to cross train tomorrow.....bwahahahaha! Who am I kidding?  It'll be a small miracle if I'm able to complete a cross train workout, but lord knows if it does happen I'll be sure to document it with photographic proof.  Stay tuned!