Hangin' Loose

I am not really liking this new pair of shoes that I got.  They keep giving me blisters and sqeak the whole run today.  No blisters today but they did last 2 times I wore them.  Ran with Jeremy and Eric today.  We ran both the 1 mile course for warm up that came up short.  So we lengthened it for the race.  And decided to move back the 5k start to the same starting point.  When we ran the 5k route we kind of did a farlek run.  Like it had in the runner's world mag.  Where the 3 of us ran in a line and would run from light pole to light pole and at each on the back guy would run up to the front.  The first mile of the course was uphill and we ended up running that mile at a 8:41.  Which is really impressive for Eric since we did the 8:29 last Thurs and that was downhill.  The 5k course ended up being 3.14 so it worked out great I think.  I would rather have it a bit long then a bit short.  We ran it in 28:40 so a next PR for both of them.  Now to do it in the race and without the farlek.:)

Early morning tempo run with the boys.  Got out with Jeremy and Eric again.  Temps were good this morning.  And had a South wind.  Got a bit of rain during the last 2 miles too.  Which made it kind of nice but not really anything noticiable.  First mile was warm up and then next tried to pick it up to the 7:29 pace.  Problem was that when I left the house my Garmin was dead.  Must of left it on after the last run or something.  So had to change over to the stopwatch.  So paces became more by feel then anything else.  After the 2 miles alone.  The other 2 showed up and we ran 1 more warm-up on the 4 mile loop.  On this loop its the flat then uphill for a mile.  Kind of flat and then down agian.  Had the head wind for mile 3(5) and mile 4(6) was downhill.  For the uphill mile I felt pretty good and the pace turned out to be pretty good for not knowing what I was running durning the mile.  The flat with the head wind was a bit disappointing to see it was so slow.  And felt pretty good about the effort coming downhill.  Didn't want to really push hard with my left leg still not back to full.  It only hurt a bit on the first mile really.

Mile 1 8:37

Mile 2 7:51

Mile 3 10:29

Mile 4 8:31

Mile 5 7:50

Mile 6 6:26

TT 49:46

Ran with Jeff for 7 miles at MP and then had our race.  It was a good turn out.  Our goal was to get 150 people to it.  And it looked like we had 250 sign up and 185 at least cross the finish line.  And about 10 people helping.  I ended up running the 1 mile with my 2 girls Aubrey and Alexis.  And then watched and cheered at one of the corners for all the 5kers coming in.  Jeff ended up winning the 5k.  He has been running really well this last past month or so.

And then after the race I didn't head out for a few more to get my 13 in for the day.  But my shin splints are feeling much better.  Really didn't have any pain after the race or even today being Mon its feeling much better.