30k Postscript II

It’s the morning after.

I was actually getting stiffer and stiffer yesterday as the day wore on, but today I feel unusually spry.  My knees are achey.  I feel a little dried out, still.  My right leg does NOT want to lift when I try and pick it up over the puppy-gate that keeps my sweet beagle from eating the cat poo.  I’m not terribly keen on walking.  And oh, the chafing.  I could do without that.

 

But otherwise I’m feeling pretty good.  It’ll take another day at least for me to even consider running.  Walking is not really high on my priority list today.

 

I also went shopping last night for dinner—Tortino’s Pizzas.  Of course, I was wearing my finisher’s medal and leaning heavily on a shopping cart while ‘walking’ through Kroger’s.  And, of course, I informed everyone I saw that I ran a 30k earlier that day.  That was pretty sweet.

 

Finally, 30k is NOT 18 MILES!!!  It’s not even “about 18 miles”.  It’s 18.6 miles.  That may not sound like a big difference to you, but .6 miles is a long damn way after running 18 miles.  In fact, it’s pretty close to 19 miles…  at least closer to 19 than 18.

 

Oh well.  The results are here.  They misspelled my name (Bneda), but that’s ok.  It’s still official.  I’m not doing it again.  Besides, it’s not like they HAD A CHECK TO READ THE NAME OFF OF!!!  866^th overall, 40 out of 44 in my age bracket.  That’s ok.  I’m not running to win, I’m running to finish and prove that I can.

 

Pace was 12:16.  I need to work on that.  I lost a full minute over the last 5 miles of the run.  That’s not good, but it’s still better than the 13:45 pace needed to finish the marathon.

 

But in the “good news” file I gained a full 30 minutes on the ½ marathon time.  I went from 3:00:00 to something close to 2:30:00.  Not a bad improvement.  Plus it’s fully 2 miles further than I’ve EVER run.  Yes, my friends, I ran through uncharted territory yesterday, and it felt as good as such a thing can feel to me.

 

Blogroll later.  I’m curious to see how the Jingle Bell run went.