It was freezing weather with rain and some patchy ice on Wednesday morning, so as Bruce and I had flexible schedules, we opted to wait a while and get our run in at 10am. Ended up with 8.5 miles. There were still patches of ice in the shade on I35 bridge walkway.
Today the group ran our first Steady State run. 3 mile warmup, 4 mile steady state and then a cooldown. Eventually I'd like to bring these down to a 6:30-6:25 pace (down from 6:40 last season), but today was simply too cold to pick it up to that pace in the first steady state run of the season. We ran around and around along a 2 mile loop. I asked for a pace check at about 1.5 miles in, and Bruce said 6:40. That was fine. I know we picked it up for the second loop, and I guesstimate around a 6:30, but then again, maybe not. Who cares, it was a good effort run, and that's all it was supposed to be. Most people headed home after that, and after a cooldown loop with Kamran and Ramon, I hopped on with Sadie and we got in another big loop on the way home.
I mapped out the run, and it unfortunately comes out to 11.5, instead of the 12 i was hoping for.
Seems like this is the week were every run is at least 1/2 a mile short. I'll just have to make it all up for on Sunday to get 90. No biggie.
That 11.5 with 4 at steady state has me ore tired than the 16 on Tuesday, so a daytime nap will probably be unavoidable.
2 comments:
If you'd wear a Garmin, you'd know at the time that your run is short by 1/2 a mile.
Your friend in nongeekometerness,
Amy
True true! Usually someone has one, but I should probably pull my old 201 out of the travel bag (only use it when i travel and am in foreign cities)
I still love the sense of freedom i get from just a watch, and feel that it makes me a better runner judging speed by feel.
I hardly ever start the stopwatch on my watch, unless i need splits on a track.
see ya, nongeekometerness pal!
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