Agonotheta

Ten

February 17, 2004

Well, I'm back from a long weekend. I had yesterday off of work for Presidents' Day. Isn't it funny how a three-day weekend is all of a sudden long? It didn't really seem that long. Actually, it seemed to go by very quickly. Well, actually, that probably has to do with my activity for two of the three days. I have a big announcement, but I'm going to wait 'til I can post a decent picture before I tell you what it is. Let me just tell you . . . Its exciting!

One cool thing I did was run 10 miles. Apparently there are mental barriers one hits when running certain distances. The only barriers I'm concerned with is five, ten and twenty miles. I remember the first time I ran five miles, I thought my lungs were going to pop right out and leave a massive hole in my chest. After that first time, it became exponentially easier to run five miles. The next big one is 10 miles. Well, I thought I was going to die about seven or eight miles in, knowing I still had two or three miles left. But my last mile was fairly easy. I even ran at my goal pace for the marathon.

Running this ten-miler was a little nerve-racking for me because last week, while running outside, I jarred my knee a bit. I stepped on a small piece of ice and slipped. Only a couple of inches, but I felt a sharp, needle-pricking-type pain in my knee. I felt it all week until the day before my long run. But miraculously as I arose the day of my run at seven in the morning, my knee felt fine. And did the entire run.

I ran up a gorgeous canyon here in my city. So I worked muscles which haven't been used in my usual jaunts around town. Needless to say, I have been sore ever since.

Someday, I'm going to take my camera with me while I run. I always see some very cool/pretty things.