8-10-13 An hour later and I'm still sweating, I think I broke my internal thermostat


Some things you may not know about me that may help you to get to know me more.
  1. I go by my middle name, Riley not my first name James
  2. I like gadgets
  3. I like to create art, stories, games, or even lunch (but I will let someone else make that for me today)
  4. My wife and I will have been married 8 years come the end of October
  5. I am a full time student (studying Illustrations, it's what I want to do when I grow up in conjuctions with making table top games)
  6. I love Indian food
  7. My wife and I have no kids at this point in time
  8. I like to ride my bike with its monsterous 29" wheels
  9. I am new to running
    1. I will be completing a marathon December 7th!
    2. I will be completing a half marathon October 26th!
    3. I will be finishing my second 5k September 2nd!
Today I did my second run outside. The temperature my phone said was 64°f, I swear if started that but reached well above that. Today was a slower paced run than the past two runs, and that's ok because I am understanding how to pace myself a little more. I started to run too hard at one point and started to have a really hard time breathing (this was after the halfway point). I believe it was because I was on the down hill, and started running a a faster pace than I could handle. The course I am running is uphill to about half way, then down hill the rest. Route Mapper for the iPad is an awesome app. I would suggest taking a look at it, it gives me so much information on where I will be running.

I have found having an object to run to is so much nicer than have a digital display marking your distance. In Utah we have out streets mapped out in a grid system, if you grow up with it, it's easy to understand. If you don't grow up with it, it's a little confusing at first. Each bock is roughly 1/8th a mile, so 4 blocks is about a half a mile. So as I was doing my initial warm up walk for a block, I then started to run. I am still not quite adjusted to outside running and it feels like I have taken two steps back in regards to progression when I do it, but I will improve! I decided my runs would be 4 blocks, walk for 2 blocks. I could have done better than that now that I look at the numbers, and review how I was feeling at each interval of a mile. I did exert a lot of energy and understand how temperatures can be a little deceiving when running and why the 50°ish temperature is a great on to run in. I also found I needed to hydrate better before running. It helps with the energy. That sticky pasty mouth sucks!

In case you were wondering I am stil liking this running thing and will just keep getting better at it.

Monday my post may be delayed until being posted until the evening because I am flying out to St. Louis to spend some time with my family there.

Until next time, have a good day!

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