School of Running: Week Sept. 6-11

[Bike Chick]

Speed work this morning and achy legs this afternoon but, guess what? I finally had a 10mm!!!! Yeah!!!! I might actually be a runner someday

1600 warm up (12:30)
2x1600 speed work (10:05 & 10:35)
800 jogs
1600 cool down (11:40)

I'm hoping to run this half with no walk breaks.

[limewave]

9 miles at 9:09/mile pace.
Phew!
Bring on the pot of coffee.

[skhill]

Just logged today's run, and noticed something awesome-- I've run 1000.1 miles this year!

and it was just about 2 years ago that I first tried this running thing, hoping to maintain the fitness and weight-loss of a summer spent on my bike. Well, it's done that, and more... it took about 6 weeks before I could make it a whole mile without a walk break, and now 3 miles is an unusually short run....

[OakLeaf]

I did 23 today. It was a beautiful day and more than 15° cooler than my last long run, but I was still super slow. Not quite sure what's going on.

[Bike Chick]

I did 23 today. It was a beautiful day and more than 15° cooler than my last long run, but I was still super slow. Not quite sure what's going on.

Doesn't matter how fast you ran it, Oak, 23 is just awesome!

I did 6 this morning---without stopping!

[skhill]

Sat. morning while getting ready to head out for my long run, I heard the unmistakable sound of my elderly dog having a seizure. So no run; I stayed home and took care of Pokey. He's feeling fine now, BTW. Previously, his seizures have always come in pairs, 2 within about 12 hours or so, but this time he only had the one, what a relief...

So I finally got out for a longish run this morning, about 8 miles. It was a beautiful sunrise, and delightfully cool. But I remember now why I don't much like doing this long a run on a school morning; my usual routes all go past grade schools, and the traffic is dreadful.

[OakLeaf]

On Saturday my friend was asking everybody if they'd ride with him today, so I agreed to join him for a quick 20 (which gave him 45, from his house) before my hair appointment even though I knew I needed to run today. I hate riding shorter distances than my long runs!

But anyway, I was still a little sore from Friday and figured I should just do a short run. Three laps of the one-mile fitness trail, about 3/4 mile warmup and the rest of it @8:35. I was really trying to keep closer to my target marathon pace (9:20), but apparently that just is not a natural pace for me. I've been able to settle into a pace pretty close to that, when I ran the half last fall, and for the last half of the marathon I did in May, but I just can't seem to find it on a short training run. Hmmm. Gotta get my footpod calibrated better, I know (I had to move it back to my laces, and it's totally off now, so I've been getting pace from the GPS which is really not much use for real-time pacing).