Hangin' Loose

Yeah today was a run with Jeff and Richard.  We met up at 6am for our run.  Plan was 6-8 miles.  Well that was the plan.  At first it seems I would get 7 miles then soon turned into 8-9 and finished with 10.:)  It wasn't to bad really though.  Had a good run.  It was cool 35-7 degrees and a slight breeze.  Quite humid though.  Since it had been raining all morning.  And only barely rained on us here and there.  Ran a few hills and flatter areas on the run.

Mile 1 9:26

Mile 2 8:58

Mile 3 8:48

Mile 4 8:31

Mile 5 8:29

Mile 6 8:42

Mile 7 8:35

Mile 8 8:16

Mile 9 8:48

Mile 10 8:34

TT 1:27:12 AP 8:43

Meet up with Jeremy, Aaron and Jeff C.  Plan was to run our 5k again and beat the 29 min time again.  We were going to keep it flat this time.  And got kind of off pace on the 2nd mile with the turn around I am guessing and might of missed the distance a little bit for some reason.  When we finished up though we were a bit short and had to go a bit farther.  The bad thing was that Jeff and Jeremy had pushed it to the sign/corner and we still had .1 to still go to hit the 5k.  Jeff stayed at the corner and light and Jeremy died a few feet short of the .1 and finally made it to me with a few secs under 29. LOL It was a good run.  After that Aaron and I met up with Jeff R and Richard for a few more miles.  So 4th mile was warm-up for them and then some of the 5 was starting to pick it up and last .5 I ran it hard to the last half.  Felt pretty good overall.  Next Tues will be hitting the track and doing speedwork.  SGM training starts in less then a week.:)

Mile 1 9:17

Mile 2 9:35

Mile 3 9:03

Mile 3.1 TT 28:50

Mile 4 9:35

Mile 5 7:16

TT 44:50

Great morning for a run.  Got out and ran with Jeff C, Jeremy and Aaron again.  We decided to do the 4 mile loop that we did on last week.  We had a slight wind again but it was better then last week by far.  Started out pretty good and Jeremy didn't die on me this time.  Jeff was saying he was going to quit and only do 1.5 miles at the start.  But I knew we were going to get him to go longer.:)  We also picked up the pace for the last mile on the downhill and where it flatted out for the last half mile.  Kicked it up a gear or 2.  And really kicked it up for the last 50 yards.  Felt pretty good.  I also wore my racing flats for this run.  Wanted to see how they were fitting and the last bit to see how they felt.  Feet felt light as air.  Looking good for the race this weekend.  No PR attempt but will hopefully a good race.

Mile 1 10:17

Mile 2 11:10

Mile 3 10:00

Mile 4 7:34

TT 39:06

Had a good race to today.  Plan was go out fast and hold on.  Was a mean hill that made it tougher.   But feel pretty good about it.  Even though I got passed by a ton of people.  Then Changed the course from the last time that I ran it too.  Something that I really love about this race is the raffle after it is over.  With a chance at some great prizes.  Which this time I won one of the best.  Which was a ladder.  Yeah a latter.  Its called a little giant latter system.  And when we looked it up on the internet sales for 360 dollars.  One guy kept trying to buy it off of me for 100 bucks. LOL  I see why now.  Ran with a couple of people I knew and had a good time besides suffering in during it.

At the first of the race I started at the front.  And was running uphill for the first mile.  Just slight but was getting hard to keep up the pace to the sub 7 that I was hoping for.  I was shooting for a 22 or so.  So when I hit the hill it really slowed me down and people were passing me.  But once I got to the top I relaxed and started speeding back up for the 2nd half which was all down.  The second mile was at the top of the hill at just over 9 miles.  And cut it back down to under 8.  So happy with that.  My performance is slowing coming back up.  So when I hit the finish like in 22 mins and 16 secs  I was happy with that.  And as it would happen to be.  Since we had issues with registering and the check.  They gave us some bibs and got them messed up.  So later when they called out Kristi's name and that she took 3rd place it was wrong.  But she still took it.  And when my AG came up and I didn't place I was a little surprised.  But when I checked the race results board.  I found that they screwed them up.  And that I had taken 5th place or would of if they had gotten it right.:)  So we kept the hardware.  And winning the latter made it even better.  What a great day.:)

Mile 1 7:05

Mile 2 7:49

Mile 3 7:01

TT 22:16 AP 7:09

PM-  After a little rest went for a bike ride with Patrick.  Out to daybreak and then out to 111 and back down.  Was a pretty good ride in great weather.

TT 1:08:52 Distance 19.58