Another Personal Best!

yesterday i ran for the longest distance/time that i ever have to this point. i ran for 7 miles and here is a break down of the times:
1 mile: 9 min 11 sec
1.5miles: 13min 33 sec (4:22)
2 miles: 18 min 26 sec (4:52)
2.5 miles: 23 min 10 sec (4:44)
3 miles: 27 min 54 sec (4:43)
3.5 miles: 32 min 39 sec (4:44)
4 miles: 37 min 37 sec (4:58)
4.5 miles: 42 min 22 sec(4:45)
5 miles: 47 min 6 sec(4:44)
5.5 miles: 52 min 04 sec(4:57)
6 miles: 56 min 42 sec(4:38)
7 miles: 66 min 54 sec(10:11)

so my pace for the entire run was right at 9:30/mile. i do not think that is too bad. you can see my last mile was by far the slowest at 10min 11 sec, that was one minute slower that the first mile. i was hoping to do the 7 miles in 63 minutes or so, i was not too far off that pace. actually, at 3.5 miles i was at a 9:20 pace. the second half kind of kicked my tail (except from 5.5 to 6 miles which was one of my fastest paces for a half mile, weird).

of course when i got in last night i was too tired to blog, or anything else. luckily i did not get any calls for emergencies during my run, or after. i do have to meet a lady at the clinic at 12:30pm today to look at her dog's eye. hopefully i can get through church without any calls.

thought of the day: this is a quote from Teddy Roosevelt "It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly...who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who have never known neither victory nor defeat."

i think i like this quote because it is so graphic. i can just picture the guy with the dirty face, giving all he's got, and just hoping he will be the victor, wanting to get in there and help him. then i think i want this guy to be me, i want to be him, in something i care so much about that i give all i have fighting for it.