Unlike Monday, I got up and had a good breakfast this morning. Maybe it was a little too good, because I lost track of time and worked right on through the lunch hour. In fact around 1:45 Charmaine came in and asked why I decided not to run today. Doh. I thought it was still morning. I jumped up, pounded some orange juice, smashed a slice of pumpkin bread in my face, and got ready.

I tried to take it a little easier on the first mile today, but I’m not sure how much of a difference it made. I still let myself walk at the end of the first mile and again near the end of the second mile. After that the course goes down hill, and I was able to keep going (and avoid most lights) until I hit the beginning of mile 6.

I usually walk the beginning of mile 6. Sometimes I walk the whole thing. It’s a pretty good hill and I’m usually pretty beat up by the time I get there. Today was different. I didn’t walk even once the whole way from the beginning of mile 6 all the way home. I did hit a red light that took forever, but I’m very sure I wouldn’t have walked if I had made the light. As I started up the hill, I really wanted to walk, but I kept reminding myself that I had a bunch of extra energy left over when I got home on Monday, so I knew I still had enough juice to jog up that last hill. And so I did.

Finishing strong always makes you feel good, and I really felt great finishing strong today.