I left my readers hanging yesterday.... truly sorry but sometimes my life after 9am grabs a hold of me, and takes control of every minute of my day.
Yesterday I ran our weekly steady state run.
We have the option to run either a progressive (slowly increasing the pace ever couple of miles) or a Steady State, where we hold an accelerated, yet constant pace. Both options for 8 to 10 miles + warmup cooldown miles
We got down to Waller (2 miles into our warmup) and everyone went RIGHT. I had already announced that I was going LEFT, so I didn't make a big fuss out of it, when i turned left on my own. I don't use a GPS (Garmin Pace Slave) {just came up with that acronym on the fly, thank you very much}, so i just opted to run 24 minutes at warmup pace, then pick it up for 16 minutes at a time. Not too scientific, but it'll do just fine. I'm pretty sure Runner's World "super coach" Steve Sisson likes that approach much more than the Pace Slave approach for these runs.
About 10 minutes into that, i decided I'd instead just run a full steady state. At one of my water faucet stops, Bruce caught up to me. (I think we were going the same speed, but I make more stops than public transportation). Anyway, we ran the rest of the way together, and we believe we kept about a 7:10/7:20 pace, which is my Marathon Goal pace, kind of sort of. Opted to only go 13 instead of the usual 14, but as i ran 12 instead of 10 today, I'm still ahead of the game.
It was really nice to run the opposite direction of everyone else as we got to see everyone run by, try and trip them, and push them into traffic; we stopped short of spitting on them, but thought long and hard about it. (kidding about the unsportsmanlike conduct, but not about the fun part of running the opposite direction)
I just hope no one reads this, because I intend to run this same direction next week, and it won't work if everyone starts doing it too.
That's it for yesterday... unless you consider the dead body we saw floating in the middle of the lake newsworthy. That is until the po-po showed up and his binoculars revealed a piece of cardboard instead of Jimmy Hoffa. That's actually good news people. No one should be disappointed that I didn't get to see a dead body floating in the water.
Anyone catch 'I survived a Japanese game show" last night? I haven't watch it yet, I taped it, so don't ruin it for me. Hai Majide.
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No Japanese game show here, I was watching dvr'd recording of TdF last night. Yelling at the screen, "Take off your shoes! Take off your shoes!" when that guy tumbled off the cliff and tried to climb up.
Thanks for updating. Your loyal readers worry when your life gets in the way of your blog.
today's stage was exactly what it's been hyped up to be. ENJOY! I may have to watch it again!
But thank god i have the morning coverage and won't have to watch the night coverage. Phil and Paul and 100X better than the evening rebroadcast clowns.
I have to have Phil (that's why I dvr). I have a wicked crush on him.
Ah, Wiley.. now the forum makes sense!! I didn't get the cardboard, or the seeing dead people comment till now!
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