My Marathon Training Miles: 2-27-10 Running 10 miles is hard.

Today was my 10 mile run. Wow, it was hard, much harder than I thought it would be.

The plan was to start from home run to the park and do two laps then run over to meet my friend Kari and her friend Mandi to do the remaining 7 miles.

My knees hurt this morning and so did my hip, I have no idea why but I figured it was just how I slept. I left home but then ran back really quick to see if I could find my headband to keep my ears warm. I couldn't find it anywhere. I finally found a hat instead and put it on and headed back out. It was really nice weather today but it was still a little chilly with the wind. By the time I had run 2 miles I was sweating and knew that hat was a bad idea, I finished 3 miles right as I got to Kari's house.
We left her house and ran down the way that she and her friend usually go for their long runs. I knew they were faster than me so I told them to just go ahead if I was holding them back but they were too nice to leave me. I know we were going slow for them but I was feeling like I was really pushing it. I finally had to walk at about 5.5 miles, and then a few more times after that. Each mile was so hard, I felt like I was just barely keeping up. I don't know why 10 miles is so much harder than 8. We ran past my neighborhood first so I ran the last .60 mile by myself and headed home. The last .25 were just torture, I had to walk, I couldn't figure out how the time was going by so slow, my knees hurt, my hips hurt, I was so hot and I was exhausted.

I finally finished. 1 hour 47 minutes and 16 seconds.

I walked in the front door and laid down on the living room floor while the kids brought me icepacks and water.

James convinced me that I should take an icebath (yeah James, the one who can't even put ice in his drinks without getting cold.). We didn't have much ice in the freezer but I filled the tub with cold water, James threw the ice in. I got in and it was FREEZING. I lasted about 10 seconds. I got out and thought about it, 10 seconds isn't going to do me any good. I got back in, I lasted about 1 minute. That was all I could handle. So much for the ice bath.