Never Leave a Paper Trail

14 miles this morning in an unknown amount of time. I have this thing where I hate to look at my Garmin too often, because really no good can come of it. There are really only two possible outcomes from looking at it:

1. I'll get frustrated at how hard everything seems for a pace of
OR
2. I'll be amazed at how easy this pace is, and decide that I want to negative split the run.

Now, I guess there's a time for both of these reactions, but on just your standard everyday, training run, there is no need for either of them. So to try and avoid them, I simply don't look down. Usually this works out pretty good for me, but today I must have forgotten to hit the start button when I took off, because when I returned home to see the results, the watch relayed the following information for me:

Distance: 0.00
Time: 0:00:00
Pace __:__

So either I imagined the entire run or I forgot to hit the start button. My legs (and appettite) are telling me that it was no imaginary run, so I must have forgotten to start the darn thing. Oh well.

For the most part, I went from feeling nauseous and achy to feeling great, alternating about every half mile or so. The right hip continues to remind me that it's there. Usuallly the first mile and anything over about 12 miles is where I notice it most. I really do think that if I stretch it out for a few days it would just go away, but I have all the discipline of a 5 year old when it comes to stretching, so that is harder than it sounds.