Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Tempo Run stopped by the pit bull! [03/16/2010]

Haven't been keeping my journal for a few days now. The only reason being...I haven't been running! The reason? Rain! daayyuummm! Went to Madhura's gym (Washington Sports Club) as a guest on Sunday. The place is awesome! The treadmills there have individual televisions with cable. What the fuck! You plug in your headphones in and tune any channel and ... run away! Sweet! I could tolerate the treadmill for 4M! Not bad at all! 4M = 40min.
So there you go. Took the day off yesterday (rain!). Today was an awesome day! Temperatures up to 60s (15 deg cel). And bright and sunny. Did some grocery shopping and got out there for a quick 3miler. Did the 3.2M in 25min (pace of 7.5!!!!!!) wowie! Okay...here's what I found. I changed my breathing a tad to suck more air through my mouth starting slow and suddenly sucking in. Changed my stride to a tad longer. Swung arms to aid in that. Made sure that I did not land on the heels though. I hope I remember this though. Looks like it worked. No pains. At about mile 2, I had the urge to slow down, but kept going at it.
At the end of the run by the mobile homes at the end of the road, a pit bull sprung out! There are plenty of dogs around. But all of them are chained. Now this fella, got out and was within 2 feet of me. Teeth bared! And barking away to glory. I could see his fangs clearly. Strangely I wasn't scared though. Stopped and held my ground. Somehow inspite of his barking and growling, he reminded me of Maggy. Funny! Wonder what I would have done were he to pounce at me. His owner called him back and scolded him. That ended my run right there.




Meals: Cereal + Soy Milk for breakfast, Quiznos medium turkey sub + coke + a bag of chips for lunch, 4 chicken wings + lentil soup (which I got from Wegman's made from scratch and took foorreeevvveeerrr) + beer for dinner.
I think I am going to do similar 3-4milers couple more times this week before the BIG ONE this weekend. Going to work on the new technique.

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