today i was a superstar.

i've been battling blisters. this is one of them.

they don't hurt really bad, but they both just popped recently.... maybe it was yesterday? and that sucks cause if i'm in the surf tomowrrow, i risk getting sand in them... remember the squeaky 8km? ouch... i couldn't walk for at least a day... and i think that was a sunday... j was gone... where was he? oh, yeah, he went to canada ahead of me. to get prepared to propose ;)

i just have to watch out, keep 'em clean. maybe tape them before stepping onto the sand tomorrow? *sigh* my poor feet. they need some serious attention. i'm considering some quality acupuncture to help some of the achey bones.

BUT TODAY I WAS A SUPERSTAR! after a lot of deliberation on how the day would pan out, we ended up at home. so i went for my 12 mile run (19.3km) around here. i ran the same course i ran on thursday morning, only i ran it twice. i ran the first half very nicely, conservative running. made it back home, it had started to rain! grabbed my fuel belt (water and dried fruit) and exchanged the sunnies for a visor. got a kiss and a spank from j and was out the door again in under 2. the second half ran well too. felt great.

i thought that running the same old places that i run during the week would be boring but because it was from 2:30-4:30 on a saturday afternoon, it was totally different. i have *never* seen the corso so void of athletes, let alone people! and the rain gave my run a whole new dimension too. and i got to eat, which i haven't done since starting the training plan so that distracted me a bit too... we don't have any sports gel or special drinks at the moment (for some reason we only get those when j trains hard, i make do without) so i drank water and ate (semi)dried apple rounds (these were ok... a bit too much chewing for me) and dates... the dates were awesome! AND I FELT TOTALLY OLD SCHOOL! *giggle*giggle*

the change in vision, from blue super sunnies to orange rimmed visor was cool too. and the light went all weird for the second half of my run.

i decided to run strong my whole way home. i felt so good :)

here are my times and heartrates for my quarter splits (3miles/4.8km each)

31 min 22 sec ... 149avg/188max
32 min 19 sec ... 152avg/168max
30 min 52 sec ... 155avg/167max
29 min 10 sec ... 164avg/181max
total time 2 hours 3 min 44 sec ... 155avg/188max

simply fyi, i had a great time doing the 10km run on thursday morning. it was the longest i'd had to run before work, i felt great despite only having about 4 hours sleep.

am looking forward to, possibly, having a training buddy a couple of times a week over the holidays!

if anybody has some good news for blister suffering, please let me know!

or if you know anything about sore toe joints!

enjoy your sport.

-xo-