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i ran 4 hilly miles thursday. my goal was to run 4 in 40 minutes and i did. i am not a fast runner. i am putting forth much effort to try to be. it is h.a.r.d.

today i hit the greenway. it was cold, 42 and cloudy/drizzly. i walked the first two minutes to warm up and started running. after each mile i walked for 30 seconds. i thought this would "refresh" my legs as jeff galloway says. i was going for negative splits again, and putting forth much effort to pick up the pace. i forgot my watch so i had to use the stopwatch on my ipod. at mile 5, my time was 52:34. i hit save and reset for the next half and the next 5 miles finished with 48:38. i was just tickled pink with this! it was work but i didn't feel depleted at the end. water every 2.5 miles and a GU at mile 5 - felt great. my goal is to eventually get to the point where i can run a 10 minute mile long race pace and feel as comfy as can be. i hope that's not unrealistic for me, but i'm going to give it my best shot. :)