Arie's Running Blog

6:45AM 70F 70% humidity. Drove to the American Tobacco Trail again. I did my Half Marathon on it. I started strong but the last miles were not easy. On average I did 7:54 pace which is great. I "broke" my PR again but it's an unofficial time.

 1M  @ 7:41
 2M  @ 7:36
 3M  @ 7:44
 4M  @ 7:48
 5M  @ 7:36
 6M  @ 7:46
 7M  @ 7:45
 8M  @ 8:07
 9M  @ 7:54
10M @ 8:03  (1:18:00 for 10 miler!)
11M @ 8:21
12M @ 8:22
13M @ 7:45
0.1M @0:56

As you can see I did very well the first 7 miles but not too well after that. But I'm happy with breaking again the HM time.

1:43:25

Yesterday marathon was amazing! Those guys at the front! Wow! 2:06 in those conditions is amazing. Poor guy at the 4th place lost his medal at the last meters. He just hit the wall so hard he couldn't care less about the medal.

9:15AM start 77F, 80% humidity. Conditions were not great and I was still tired after my long run yesterday. I have to admit to having negative thoughts this morning and thinking about taking the day off running. But it all changed when I started running. I actually felt great and although it was hot and humid I enjoyed the run. I think I might have even experienced the famous 'runners high'. My pace was good too (8:10 average). School started today and it was fun looking at the new students filling the campuses.

0:43:40

I tried a new way to tie my shoes and it actually felt much better. I have a doctor appointment on Thursday and I might ask for an X-ray or maybe a referral to specialist.

11:20AM, 80F, 75% light rain. I couldn't run in the morning so I did a lunch run. The humidity was quite bad but the light rain helped. I did my regular run between the campuses and 2 loops on the east campus. The pace was fast (8:03 average) but I felt good eventough I didn't sleep much last night.

0:51:33

It was raining hard this morning (tropical storm Fay) so I went to the Gym. Ran 6 miles on the treadmill doing negative splits (average pace 7:47). Speed work will wait for tomorrow.

0:46:41

8:45AM 77F 80% humidity. Speed work on Duke's tracks. Conditions were brutal. Humidity was awful. My plan was to do 6 times 800 meters with 400m rest. I am glad to say I survived it and did very well for the conditions at hand. Also they were working on the field and part of lane 1 was blocked so each round was actually longer than 400m but I'll count them as 400m. The 6 intervals were at 3:25, 3:28,3:25, 3:27, 3:28, 3:28 which I think is pretty good. Above all I didn't fade at the last 2 intervals (but my 400m in between got slower).

0:52:42

Here are the full splits:

  1M @ 8:07 (warm up)
 .5M @ 3:25
.25M@ 2:17
 .5M @ 3:28
.25M@ 2:26
 .5M @ 3:25
.25M@ 2:16 (+water break)
.5M @ 3:27
.25M@ 2:39
 .5M @ 3:28
.25M@ 2:36 (+water break)
 .5M @ 3:28
.25M@ 2:45
  1M @ 8:55 (cool down)

8:50AM start, 75F, 80% humidity. Again preatty bad day for running. I did two loops around the Duke golf course. Took it easy (8:22 pace on average).

0:48:32