A clydesdale no more!

One 6:45 run at Firehouse.

Eight miles on the LPT with Tara at 7:51/mile.  That seems to be our standard average pace for that run. 

1 mile during the workout at Firehouse then ran 2.5 miles home after the workout.  I'm currently running 3 days/week and going to the gym 3 or 4 days per week.  Trying to see if I can incorporate running into a couple of the other days.  Considering using the FIRST marathon training program (http://www.wu.ece.ufl.edu/marathon%20training-first%20marathon.pdf) which is 3 days of focused running and 3 days of cross training. 
 

Didn't exercise at all yesterday because: my knee was bothering me, had an early morning ortho appt for my kids, chaperoned a field trip, busy with work, soccer game, orchestra concert, etc.  Figured that my list of excuses was big enough that I could justify a day off.  I have made a lot of poor food choices this week which has left me feeling very heavy and bloated.  DIdn't think I would be able to keep up with Tara this morning.  Did the usual LPT run and we were both quite surprised to see that the average pace was 7:42/mile.  I guess that's a good sign. 

One of the most unevenbtful pacing jobs I've had.  I didn't have anybody run with me for the entire race.  Makes me wonder if it really even happened.  My first mile was a liitel fast.  That gave me a 15 second cushion that I held for most of the race.  The 7th mile contains the "sprintosaurus" which is a special award for the fastest half mile. Since I wasn't running with anybody I decided to push the pace.  DIdn't go all out but it was close.  Ran the half mile in 2:30.  At the end of this stretch, I stopped and waited 90 seconds to get back on track.  From here to the end I was within a couple of seconds of where I was supposesd to be at every mile marker.  Ran the last mile a little faster so I would have a bufferr in case the course didn't measure correctly.