good run.

i must write while i am still in my post run euphoria.

this is from the disneyland half.  although i did wear a running skirt today, but it wasn't a sparkle skirt.

i just ran a regular old run, but this regular old run was amazing!  i am not sure what it was, maybe it was the sport jelly beans i tried eating beforehand (yum!), the extra sleep i had last night, all the food i ate last night (it was INSANE), or just a fluke.  maybe it was a high from the disneyland half.  i don' t know, but it was good.  maybe today it just all fell into place.  

i went out with a goal of 5, maybe 6 miles, if i felt good.  before heading out, that turned into, "go as far as you feel, if it is 2 or 3, so be it."   well, i did 8.12 miles.  the weather was rather perfect, 58*, cloudy.  i am not really training for anything, but still want to keep in shape.  it is nice knowing i can just go and do what i want or feel like, not really sticking to a plan.  that is just what i ended up doing today.

at 4 miles, i thought, i am for sure doing 6.  then at 6, ok, for sure 7, maybe i can hit 8!  then when i realized, i would hit about 7 1/2 i detoured to make it an even 8.  

the thing about this run was not the distance, that thrills me though, but how i felt.  i felt good, i had the energy to keep going, and my pacing was rather where i'd like it to be.  this run was based basically on how i felt, i wasn't worried much about pacing, but once into it, i tried to stay in a certain pacing area.

i was just into this run, and that happened during the run, not before.

it was just all around good.  considering i had thought that the disneyland half would be my last long run for awhile, maybe even my last race (yes, that did cross my mind, more than once, all summer) of that distance, this feeling is fantastic, and has renewed my love for running.   i am not sure i ever even felt like that before.  i enjoyed it, but i feel like that disneyland half renewed my running spirit (as well as reading more lately blogs/twitter feeds of the team sparkle girls, one of whom says running saved her, and in many ways i am feeling like that more and more, too), and has encouraged me to keep going. 

i know not all runs from now on will be great or even feeling like this, so i am soaking this up.

and now i eat.