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Running by the Numbers

9/6/2011

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# of miles in a half-marathon: 13.1

# of days until the Las Vegas Rock 'n' Roll 1/2 Marathon:  88

# of dollars it costs to run in the 1/2 Marathon: 140

# of miles I ran on Saturday: 4

# of minutes it took me to run 4 miles: 48:11

#, in degrees, of the average temperature in Vegas this time of year: 98

# of times I thought to myself, "Dear God, what have I signed myself up for?" in total panic: 27

# of years it's been since I bought new running shoes: 4

#, in minutes, the sales clerk at the shoe store spent telling me, in fairly graphic detail, about the dangers of ill-fitting running shoes and how runners are prone to lose toe nails due to this:  6

#, in seconds, it took me to decide to buy new shoes after hearing about toe-nail loss: 1.2

# of pairs of shoes I bought, in an effort to avoid losing my (still blue-painted) toe nails: 2

#, in minutes, I've spent thinking about toe-nail loss since Saturday: 45

# of people I knew running the 1/2 marathon 4 weeks ago: 0

# of people now I know running the 1/2: about 12

# of times I've asked Brian to run with me: 5

# of times he's emphatically said, "No, you are crazy, woman!": 5

# of miles I've run since Saturday: 10

# of times I've played Lady Gaga, J Lo, Ke$ha, or Britney on the iPod while chugging along: 3,000

# of "Hill Day" boot camp sessions I've attended in an effort to cross-train: 3

# of hills employed on Hill Day: 2 (aptly named, "the Big Hill" and "the Little Hill")

# of times we run up and down these stupid hills on Hill Day:  15,000*

# of times of times I think to myself, "I can't do this, I can't do this" while huffing and puffing and trying not to throw up last night's dinner: 15,000*

# of times I've failed to complete a run or finish Hill Day: 0

# of times I've finished a run or Hill Day and felt strong, powerful, and like I could take on the world?

Too many to count. :-)

Editor's note: With that said...

#, in terms of slices, of coconut cake I'm about to consume having successfully completed Hill Day this morning:

1.

Yum!

*approximately
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Tiffany link
9/6/2011 07:08:26 am

# of friends you have who have actually lost a toe nail due to running- 1 (its totally gross...be glad you sprung for the new shoes!!) ;) -xoxo-

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Karen
9/9/2011 10:29:08 am

Make that 2 (both big toes) ugly and painful.

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