Workout today - 2.5 miles

I realize that I have either been underaccomplishing during my workouts, or that the past one-mile workouts have helped me become ready to run more than 2 miles at a time without stopping. So this is especially good! 2.5 miles nonstop is 2.5x more than I've done in months. So I'm looking forward to progressing faster than I expected, and this gives me hope that I'll be marathon ready this winter.

The great thing is that it felt fine, no back aches or anything. My foot is still puffy from where the wasp bit it (it was swollen about 4x larger than I've ever seen it!). And I'll probably be sore from the huge increase in mileage today. But if I was able to run that far every day of the week, that'd be twenty miles a week!

It was extremely nice to go for that long, since I feel that my whole body was exercised, it's now completely relaxed, and it was exciting to see how much I could do. I didn't slow my pace down any at all, either! So it was a good smooth run, bare foot on the grass in the inside on the edge right next to where the track begins, just like I've done for the past month.

The big difference came because I picked 6 songs to listen to on an To-Go list. So it was about 22 minutes continuously, and I told myself not to stop until it had played the whole thing. Then I just add songs with each week, and run a little more. Playing it psychologically rather than mathematically is a great deal more fun. Here I come Marathon des Sables, here I come Al Andalus UltraTrail, here I come Sparta!