In the Pursuit of Wonder

Miles: 3.11 Time: 30:27 Pace: 9:47 Avg HR: 160, Shoes: Brooks Addiction (318.62) No Walks

Made a conscious effort to start off at a better pace and hung on.   Beat my previous personal best by 57 seconds. Finally under 10 minute miles.

Miles: 2.66 Time: 26:43 Pace: 10:03 Avg HR: 157, Shoes: Brooks Adrenaline (100.81) No walks

Miles: 3.11 Time: 32:16 Pace: 10:22 Avg HR: 152, Shoes: Brooks Addiction (321.73) No Walks

Was too tired to run last night, so I decided to do a morning run and actually followed through with that decision.  Body really wanted to go faster at the start, but I held it back.  Good thing, cause the end of the run was HOT!  Body has been giving me some aches after consistently pushing faster the last week.  Just wanted to get the miles in.  Nice to see my average HR so low on a run.

Miles: 2.66 Time: 27:32 Pace: 10:22 Avg HR: 150, Shoes: Brooks Adrenaline (103.47) No walks

Miles: 4.00 Time: 43:44 Pace: 10:55 Avg HR: 151, Shoes: Brooks Addiction (325.73) No Walks

First 4 miler ever.  I drove to the canals so I could run on dirt and was sad to see that they have turned it into concrete.  The other side of the canal was already paved.  There was still some dirt to run on, but it wasn't very level and was often filled with tire ruts or was overly soft from the construction of the concrete path.  They probably thought they were doing such a nice thing to "improve" things for the runners.  Started running at 5:45 Just wanted to go slow and get the miles in.   Very satisfying to be done with my run as on my drive home I saw a myriad of people getting their exercise in as it started to warm up from cool 88 degrees I got to run in.