Today I leave for China. Actually I leave in a couple of hours. The bags are packed, all the details are taken care of and the boarding passes are printed (well sort of...we are checked in, but since its an international flight we have to show passports before getting the actual boarding passes). Only one thing still needed to be done...I needed to hit my mini-goal for the week with my running. So I strapped on the shoes (trail shoes, but I'll get to that) and headed out into yet another scorching early morning.
Since I already packed my running shoes, I ended up wearing one of my newer pairs of trail shoes this morning. Big mistake. I wasn't running on trails. Not only are they not broken in, but the soles just don't mesh with pavement running. My arches were killing me in the first mile. By the third mile I think they gave up and just fell down with the shoe, or at least the muscles in my foot stretched a little differently. By the end, I wasn't paying much attention to my arches because I was trying to keep the sweat from blinding me.
But who can talk about running right now? I thought relatively little about it during the hour I was outside doing the deed. My mind was in China, where in two days I will meet my child for the first time. It's been a long wait and I'm excited/anxious/nervous/happy/scared/ecstatic/joyful. This is what I thought about. Now, I'll still be running in China, but probably back on the treadmill. And I won't be taking my laptop, so my blogging may be less regular. But once I get back, I will be joining a new group of runners - the jogging stroller moms - and I can't wait.
Oh, yeah, and I did hit this week's mini-goal of 15 miles before jumping on the plane :) Happy trails!!!
Stats -
Miles: 6.52
Time: 57:48 (average pace of 8:52 per mile)
Location: Broadneck Peninsula, Bay Head, Sandy Point
Feeling: Aside from the arches it was a good run
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