I know this is blog is dated October 28th - but I'm blogging about my run last week. It's too eventful to leave out before I blog about my run today.
Last Saturday was my first long run with my Half Marathon partner, Lisa. We've been training separately and have been anticipating a run together. We decided to meet half way in Tampa to run on beautiful Bayshore Boulevard. This is a coveted scenic running track on Tampa Bay. The sidewalk runs along on the Bayside of the Boulevard for almost 8 miles and the other side is lined with million dollar homes and high-rise condominiums. We happened to choose the first cool crisp Saturday in October under 70 degrees!
When we met each other in the parking lot we were high on excitement. The cool weather, the early hour that reminded us of race day, the scenic beauty all got the best of us. As we shivered we decided not to take our water-belts deceiving ourselves that the coolness would somehow keep us from dehydrating. I know, that was stupid, but we weren't in our right minds with our giddiness creating a fog-like nonsensicalness.
I set my Gymboss Interval Trainer on our 3/1 run/walk alarm and off we went toward the end of the Boulevard that marked 4 miles. So, first mistake: no water belts. Second mistake, we talked non-stop for four miles. We ran at a slow pace and winded ourselves with the lack of oxygen from talking and laughing.
At 3 1/2 miles we caught a flood of Susan Komen Breast Cancer runners, regretting that we could have done a 5k with them and counted it as part of our training! The good news was they had a string of porta potties that was placed at just the right mile marker when we needed it! After that short detour, we realized we were needing hydration and we hadn't reached the end of the Boulevard of 4 miles before our turn around. That meant NO WATER for 4 more miles! S-T-U-P-I-D!
You know how it is when you know you CAN'T have something? You want it even more. We were so thirsty and not only that we were getting drained from talking, our sugar level was plummeting and we were feeling the dehydration as the sun came beaming down dissipating the crisp cool air. As we began to calculate our slow pace and the length of time it would take us to get back, Lisa announced we weren't talking anymore! I announced we needed to pick it up. THE FUN WAS OVER! LOL!
We pushed ourselves back to our starting point talk only about how to steal passing runner's water bottles! As we got to the edge of the parking area where our cars were I announced we were cutting through, cheating us .1 of a mile. We each went into our cars and immediately got out our water bottles.
We chugged our water down and laughed at ourselves, proud we did eight miles, did it together and vowed to learn from our mistakes for next time!
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