My Journey With Weight Loss – My 2nd 10 KM Run

Yesterday I went for my early morning 8 km walk. All was going well until I got near the pier where there were literally dozens of Canada Geese on the promenade. While I don’t really like most birds I am terrified of geese. It all stems from growing up on a hobby farm where we always had geese and they were nasty creatures. There favourite thing seemed to be to chase you and if you fell they would jump on you and beat you with their wings. The worst one was my Dad’s ‘pet’ who if you got between him and my Dad would attack you. Today it was a much smaller group but when one of them started hissing at me I ramped up my pace and kept it up until I was more than a kilometer away from them.

Today was my attempt at a 2nd 10 km run. I got up and realized for the first time in many weeks that it was raining. Hmmm, I thought, should I just use the treadmill? I didn’t really want to do that as I have measured the route I run and know it is exactly 10 km. I put on my moisture wicking running clothes (along with a ball cap) and headed out the door. It wasn’t bad for the first 1/3 of the run as it was just kind of misting rain but then it went bad. The rain really started to pick up and remained that way for the rest of the run. However, I was determined I was going to finish it and I did.

The bad news is this idea of moisture wicking clothing, by time I got home I was convinced they were moisture absorbing clothing. I was soaked through every layer. As soon as I got home I apologized to the dog and told her there was zero chance on us doing our normal long morning walk because I was dripping wet and cold. Needless to say a hot shower would happen very quickly. I hung my ball cap on the back of a chair to dry and later saw water on the floor (sadly I immediately thought the dog had had an accident) and realized water was dripping off it (yes, that is what I mean by soaked).

The good news is my pace. I tried to keep a decent pace today after having picked things up during the rest of my training this week. Not only did I do the 1 km run from the geese but the last 3 blocks of my run I pushed it into high gear and sprinted. The end result was cutting my time down by 12 minutes compared to next week.

I will say that changing up my training schedule really helped. Because yesterday was a walk day my legs felt pretty strong today. I think I will keep to this schedule for a while.