Loops around the Lake

Surprise, I have written in my blog for four days straight.  Surprised?  Me too!

I think it was a few days ago when I said that I love when you have the perfect route to match the workout, well today was not the case.  11 miles.  Honestly, how do coaches come up with such a random distance.  I guess it has to do with my liking of even numbers.  Ten is totally find and Twelve is a dozen but 11.  Okay, I'm done ragging on the number 11.  After all, I was born in November which is the 11th month of the year :)

Today was meant to be a relaxed day and it was (bassically).  I did 3 loops plus a little more around Lake Quannapowitt.  The lake is beautiful but after seeing the same areas 3 times, it begins to wear on you.  The first loop was the hardest which didn't make any sense to me while I was running but does now.  I mean think about it.  When you know you have to run around the same lake 3 times, the first one is bound to feel like it is never going to end.  I tried to remind myself about the joys of running and enjoying every bit about being out there.  At some point, during the third loop, I remembered that I have the next 4 1/2 days off from work and that was a huge boost to finishing the run strong.  I was happy about my effort and didn't even care much about the pace I was at.  I know shocking :)

Going down to the cape until Sunday morning so I will not have access to the internet.  One of the many reasons why I love Cape Cod.  Their will be more in my next post about the cape but until then folks enjoy the weekend.