Milestone - 1K

My long run on Sunday went pretty well.  I controlled all the controllable factors that were listed in dissection post  - got good sleep, started hydrating early, adjusted the fuel belt, ran to my feeling of exertion rather than to heart rate, etc. etc. and I actually ended up extending the run to about 16.5 miles - which was the plan I had in mind if everything was going well.  I did end up with a lot more soreness and tension in my upper thigh area, but I think that is probably due to the longer distance and the additional elevation changes involved. The elevation change - up and down - was an additional 340 ft (about 110 meters) which may not sound much, but I think doing that after 14.5-15 miles with an up down change of about 1650 ft (550-ish meters) was taxing to my legs, indicating that they need to get stronger. Incidentally, I have recently added a couple of routines of leg exercises. We'll see how that goes.

Taking a step back and looking at the overall picture, I am happy to note the crossing of a nice milestone today.  I started tracking my runs using MapMyRun app last November.  The first run tracked was a 7.7 mile run on Sunday Nov. 30, 2014.  During my 6.2 mile run this morning, nearly a year later, I crossed the 1000 mile mark (Yay!!) According to the app I have covered a distance of 1003 miles over 136 individual runs taking 161.16 hours  (6 days and 17 hours) in total burning close to 138000 Calories in the process.  The app also records that my feet took about 2 million steps to cover the distance.

Thank you all for keeping me going with your cheers and by following my runs here on this blog. I am lucky to have you all.

If I can run, u can run