1:38:32

pace: 9:37, 9:50, 9:47, 10:00, 9:56, 9:51, 9:50, 10:02, 10:09, 9:26

from the guy praising jesus out loud while he was running to the scary looking old lady with t.h.o. running in a brown satin wal-mart style bra to the girl stopping every 1/2 mile to take pictures with her digital camera...i did it. i finished the longest race i've ever run to date. the soldier field 10 miler (5/27/06) was painfully fantastic, and i'm so glad i had good friends there to make it even more fun.

the goal was to come in under 1:40, and i actually achieved that. however, i know i could've done better had i trained smarter. so from now on, i promise to do the following:

#1: bally's will be my friend at least twice a week. i should've never stopped lifting because my legs totally shut down on me. i never felt out of breath, but my body felt so tired.

#2: i will incorporate hill workouts at least once every two weeks. while there weren't big hills in the race, there were enough bunny hills to make my quads feel like death by the end.

#3: i will do a tempo run a week.

#4: i will continue to work on my abs and my back because both were really damn sore the day after the race.

#5: i will not go into another race with a defeatist attitude.

oh and after saturday, sb now has a new nickname. i don't know what it is quite yet, but after running miles 7 through 10 on a broken ankle and still rocking out a 1:24:22, the words "steel," "bad ass," and "fuckin' hard core" need to be incorporated somehow. so impressed. so proud.

tomorrow: 4 miles