First Road Run (Win)

Motivation:

Saturday's run was my first road run since I moved to my new house. I decided that it was time to suck it up and get out in my new neighborhood or I was never going to become familiar with it and then never want to run outside.  I decided to make it a short run to my friend's apartment to pick up her car.  Kind of a lazy run. Running to pick up a car and drive it back home. But it had to be moved and it worked out pretty good.  I set a goal for myself that I would walk to the street light as a warm up, then run all the way across to the next street light and then would walk the rest of the way to her apartment as my cool down.  It turned out to be a good plan even though I fell a little short on the running part than I wanted.  But, I still had a new personal best one mile time of 11:34 which is a 25 second improvement!

One of the biggest challenges of the short run on Saturday was running down hill.  I've walked this hill, but never run it.  I felt like I was going to trip over my own feet--so luckily I was right in front of the hospital in case I fell and broke my leg.  But, I'll have to keep working at it; as well as working on running back up that same hill.