Mid Long

Distance: 6.9
Duration: 56:42
Pace: 8:15
Shoes: saucony

So i kind of injured my foot this week, either jumping back into the barefoot thing too quick or something. Anyways I was not going to run tonight, I had decided to take it off at like 4:30 ish. I went to a friend of the families motivational speech, and although short and sweet it got wanting to go for a run. So i put on my concrete shoes and ran a mid long run. It was great i went a slow pace and finished. Which is something i was thinking about at the beginning of this run, is how cool it is that a 6-7 mile run is no sweat to me anymore. I remember a few years back when a mile could be hell for me. Also even though I went slow this was a tough mental run, which was good though, I was thinking about how often it is we want to just zone out and not think about the run, which is good sometimes, but really its those tough runs where every ten seconds you want to throw in the towel, for really no reason, you just do. But you say NO and keep on running. It relates to what i learned last week at this buddhist zen center, how meditation is not easy, and even though there may be a thousand times that you want to stop, if you just are disciplined and stop yourself and say " I can " or something like that, you can come back to the meditation or the run.

Oh and for the two running articles you have I have not had a chance to read them, but after i do I will post them on facebook.