Sorely Mistaken

I know I'm a little late posting this, but its been a very crazy week (I'll write a new post later to explain)

Well, I had a number of 1sts this week running. Besides the big goal of the week was to gut out 11 miles I experienced other not so exciting, but somewhat painful things this week (mostly it was Saturday, but I'll get to that momentarily). Running 10 miles was tough the week before, so I was a little nervous about adding another mile so soon. However, like always, the first few miles were good. I had a good pace and all the muscles were feeling fine. Before I get into the big run on Saturday I will briefly describe my shorter runs. It is difficult to run longer than 6 miles in the morning before work and still get there on time. I guess that's something I'll have to figure out real soon when my weekday miles get up in the 8-9 miles at a time. Back to Saturday. It was a cloudy, drizzily afternoon. No down pour, but lightly raining off and on the entire run. So this marks the first time I ran in rain. Not too bad, but then again, it wasn't constant and it wasn't very heavy. Another first was around mile 8 I ran by the house to grab a drink to keep myself hydrated and Deb and the girls (save the youngest) was outside and they cheered me on. Other than my 10k they haven't cheered me on before in my training runs, so that was a fun little bonus. Of course the biggest first was that this was the first time I ran 11 miles. As I found out later I had actually run 11.41 miles. Once again the last 3 miles were extremely difficult. I was having difficulty picking my feet up off the ground, but I kept my feet and legs moving. I wasn't as tired as I felt after this run as I did the week I ran 10, but I still was tired. Still I felt great that I was able to run 11 miles.

Lastly, I had a first this run as to pain. After 7 miles I was really noticing a pain that was a stinging feeling and very unconfortable. This wasn't a pain of muscle, tendon or bone, but ... a pain in the skin. I don't know if it was the rain or me dumping water over my head, but my wet shirt I think caused my nipples to become very chaffed and sore. It a new experience for me and I'm sure I looked funny as I ran I periodically pulled my shirt away from my body to minimize the friction my shirt was causing. I was warned that this might happen so now I'm going to have to find some remedy to prevent this from happening again. For all those who have not had issues with this, be grateful. VERY grateful.

So a run full of firsts and I hope that the firsts continue as I reach my goal of 13.1. Gotta run.