wow

5 miles!

i ran 5 miles. and i did a good job of it. 48:48. less than 10 minutes per mile. when i felt tired, i walked for a minute, for a total of either 6 minutes or 7 minutes -- I lost count. The first mile was almost 8 minutes, until i realized i was a) about to run my first mile in 8 minutes 2) i'd never run 5 miles before and c) i'd never even run 4 miles all the way through.

so i slowed down and made it. the last mile was "easy" in the sense that i felt quite detached from my body and felt like it was "someone else" struggling through that last mile. i never would have done five if i hadn't been running with the coworkers and wearing my expensive glasses.

the run was on the foster city stinkway, 3 miles with the wind, 2 miles against it. i took out the arch-support insoles i'd been running with almost since day 1, and i think that actually helped. they may have been working against me.

folks were complaining about the heat a little, which didn't bother me, since i'd run 2.5 miles at 9am in 90 degree heat less than a week ago. this was cool compared to that.