An update

I'm back to this blog after more than a week without visiting. I didn't even talk about Kip's race... well, the race went quite well, I think. He was super nervous all day, though. When we got there it was packed with people. He got his T-shirt and his foot bracelet to measure his timing. He did some warming up and then went to the starting line. They left. He told me that he started next to a slow group and had some trouble to finally pass them. Somehow he got stuck with them for a while. I've never run a race so I'm not very sure how that works. He also told me that at some point he had to stop to tie his shoelace that went loose somehow. I saw him midway and he was looking good. He said he could also grab some water and drink at some point of the race. For some time he was running next to a little girl. Apparently the girl was pretty good and he was feeling a bit embarrassed that he couldn't pass her for a while. But then he did pass her at the end. Actually when I saw him at the end of the race he was running superfast! he says that means that he should have gone faster earlier if he has all that energy to give at the end. He loved the fact that everybody was screaming out for him. What's sure is that he hurt his feet and he hasn't been running ever since. He thinks he can go back to running tomorrow. When he got there he was cute, not being able to talk because he had to get his breath back. His results are here: http://timetrack.com.mx/index.php?menu=resultados&evento=37 (Kip Pfaff).

He says he won't be running a race in a while until he's sure his ankles can handle it.

As for me, I've been running the whole week, but by myself. I've been feeling pretty good, also because it has rained and for a few days the weather has been great. On Friday I could even run in the middle of the day, which is a luxury here. So basically I've been training for making my runs longer. Now I can run 2 miles easily in normal days. But first I started trying to better my 1-mile times. Two days after Kip's race, I made my best 1-mile time with 8:23. Today I ran just one mile after a while running longer distances and I didn't run faster than that time, although it was pretty good (8:28).

But on Tuesday last week I started running 2 miles as the standard distance. I started with a time of 18:40, 9:14 the first lap, 9:26 the second lap. Then on Tuesday I did two miles again and this time I did a bit worse, 18:55, with a first lap of 9:40 and a second lap of 9:15. Then the day after I went for my first 3-mile run, which I did in 29:43, starting with a first lap of 9:13, a second lap completed in 19:40 total and then the last lap. Kip said it was pretty good. I felt pretty good that I could run 3 miles with not so much trouble, but it can't be as hot as it was today, though. And then on Saturday I went for the 2 miles again and I did it in 18:41, which was better again, so this is what I'm after these days: bettering my running times. Tomorrow I'll go running with Kip again, so we'll probably do 2 miles. I'll let you girls know.

The most important thing: we're still not smoking :)