Haters Gonna Hate

Have you ever been the victim of a backhanded compliment?  I sure have!  And, no matter how many times it has happened to me I still cannot get over how they sting.  I guess because the person saying them is smiling to your face and you realize seconds later that what they said is actually pretty insulting.  How do you handle them?  This is how I WANT to handle them:

But I don't.  No, I just smile and nod and keep going with my conversation, pretending the words that are cutting me so deeply do not bother me at all.  Has this happened to you? 

The other day I was running when I ran into someone that I had not seen in a long time.  This person said things to me like, "If you are doing this for real then I should run with you." and "I have always wanted to run, but hate slowing other people down.  I can keep up with your pace."  Ouch!  First of all, how many fake runners do you know out there?  I mean once you take one running step you become a runner.  You stopped me while I was running and you see sweat dripping off of me, and you think I am faking this?  I don't think so!  And the only reason you want to run with me is because I am slow?  No thank you!   I just smiled at her and once our conversation was over, ran away, literally hitting the pavement a little harder than before.

Today was a huge milestone for me.  I ran my first 10K!  Here was my report from this morning's run:

Exciting part of this?  My overall pace was under the required 18 minute mile for the Mini-Marathon!  Miles 1 - 4 were under the pace that I want to maintain so I do not get picked up by the bus.  Miles 5 and 6 were not.  I could definitely feel myself struggling those last couple of miles.  I just felt sluggish.  This, of course, makes me nervous.  Here is a breakdown of today's miles:

Guess what?  I actually ran further than 6.2 miles today.  I ran a total of 6.68 miles!  I started on my morning run and I went to check something on my phone and somewhere stopped my activity and could not get it to resume so I had to start over.  I wanted to throw my phone I was so frustrated, but then I just got decided to start over.  This is the proof I ran both distances today:

6.20 + 0.48 = 6.68 miles

Not only that, but the first part of my run was actually a pretty decent pace.  Here is what it looked like:

Technically, I completed half of a half marathon today!  I went 6.68 miles and half of a half marathon is 6.55 miles.  How awesome is that?!?!?

So, even though I have had some negative people around lately I am trying very hard to not listen to those negative thoughts and continue to push towards my goal of successfully completing the Mini-Marathon that is almost a month away.  Yikes!