Monday, July 21, 2008

I need to learn to count

So, You know that skill we all learned when were were in kindergarten or even earlier. two comes after one, three after two four after three and so forth? Well apparently I think that it goes one, two, three, five, six ... nine, eleven, twelve.

This weekend I was scheduled to run twelve miles. Due to circumstances, some in my control some out of it I was unable to run Saturday morning like I had planed. So I decided to flip flop my long run to Sunday and do the short 3.5 miler on Saturday.

Saturday's run was hot and not a lot of fun so I wasn't super psyched about Sunday. Well Sunday rolls around, I woke up a 6:30 to my house mate rummaging around in the kitchen. In my sleepy state I miss calculated the amount of time I had before church coming up with some crazy numbers and then when back to sleep for and hour.

This left me the afternoon/evening to run. It was in the 60's and the sun was baring down so I postponed to 8pm. On my run I counted my miles totally leaving out mile four and mile ten. I got back home thinking I had run about 13 miles going wow that was super fast. Much to my surprise after mapping my route I had only run 10.77.

Oh well next weekends long run is a 1/2 marathon race so I should be running the right distance. It'd be pretty hard to mess that on up.

3 comments:

  1. I love sleep-induced math.

    If I have to be somewhere at 9:30am, it takes me 15 minutes to get ready, and 15 minutes to get there, and its 9am, I clearly have at least another 10 minutes to sleep.

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  2. Dude - get yourself one of these babies : http://stephannoske.de/wp/?p=619

    I know it's in german but .. you get the idea :)

    RUN on

    Stephan

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  3. Stephan, I looked at those but I don't know about $400 for a watch. Maybe if or when it happens again :)

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