Whew! 14 miles!

This morning I set my alarm clock for 4:15 AM, thinking I'd make it to our Team in Training running course to get some miles in before the whole team showed up at 7. I don't know what I was thinking when I made that decision, but I know exactly what I was thinking at 4:15 when I woke up: This is crazy and there's no way I'm going out there this early.

Then I slept for over 2 hours more and ended up being a little late and showed up at 7:05, bitterly noting that it was freezing outside and if we were rational human beings we would wait until noon when the weather was beautiful, but noooo.......... (I'm discorvering that runners are not always very rational people).

Sometimes I am grumpy in the mornings.

But once you get running, and your body warms up, and the sun in rising over the lake, the world suddenly becomes beautiful again, and that's what happened to me this morning.

I ended up running ten miles without stopping, then run/walked the last 4 (I wasn't out of breath, but my knee started pestering me), so now I know for sure I'll be able to run the whole White Rock 1/2 Marathon that's coming up in a few weeks. That's a good feeling, considering I couldn't run around the block when I decided to run a marathon.

So, to make a long story short, my knee's a bit sore but the endorphins are more than making up for that right now. 14 miles, and way before lunch!