Heavenly Seven

Canal Street Station: Broadway and Canal 03/08/10

I completed my 7 miler yesterday! I asked on Twitter for some suggestions of where to run… but in the end decided to run on the esplanade, where we did the KERF blogger run.

It was beautiful out. The weather was absolutely perfect (despite slight windiness). The view over the water was stunning!

7 miles is the longest I’ve ever run on purpose! I may have run 7 before or close to it, but I never intentionally set out to run 7 miles. I know it may not be long for some, but I am super proud of myself!

The run itself felt great! Running it wasn’t “heavenly” as I may have lead you to believe by the title of my post – I had a bit of knee pain, and some foot numbness. But finishing WAS heavenly! I felt really good, and strong.

And I figured out how to track my mile splits finally:

M = Mile

Not bad. Not sure how I started off that fast though! Guess I was a little too eager to run in such nice weather . I think that may have affected my speed for the rest of the run. I recall mile 4 as being the toughest. After I got past that, it felt like smooth sailing!

I have 4m scheduled for today, as I was supposed to do my 7m on Sunday. But I don’t think I’m going to do it. I’m going to do some cross training and strength training today and tomorrow and save my 4 miles for Thursday (and then do Thursday’s 3 on Saturday). Whew confusing!

Speaking of strength training – I read on Shedding It that Rachel is doing the one hundred push-up challenge.

I thought to myself, what an AWESOME idea! I have pretty pitiful upper body strength and think this would be a great way to build it up, and a fun challenge to do! So I’m hopping on board! Starting today!!! I’ll keep you updated on what I do for it every week and my progress on my fitness page. You are more than welcome to join in!

Do you prefer strength training or cardio?

I feel like everyone always has a preference, or dreads doing one of the other. I feel like for women, strength training is not their favorite. For me though, I actually prefer it to cardio. If I had to choose between 30 minutes on the treadmill/elliptical or doing an hour of strength training, I would pick the strength training every time!