Arie's Running Blog

8:00AM 58F 90% humidity. Wow! what a run that was. I averaged 7:38 on this distance. The cool temperature was great. I felt really great throughout the run even in the last couple of miles. I wish this was a race or something like that. The course is quite challanging with a lot of hard hills but also some relatively flat areas. But in total the course is tougher than your average race course. I'm thinking that a 7:30 for a 10K should be a very reasonable pace. We'll see how I do in November. I also might do another 5K on the flow sometime at the end of October. Next week and the week after I have lots of traveling to do. Hopefully my running will not be affected too much.

1:31:35

8:15AM 65F, 80-90% humidity. Nice temperatures. Did the loop around Duke golf course twice. Was planning to run easy this morning after yesterdays long run but didn't manage to. I did  8:07 in the first loop and 7:55 in the second (8:01 on average). Legs were a bit sore after yesterday but nothing serious.

0:46:31

Product review: Whole foods have their version for the Propel fitness water. I tried it this morning and for some reason picked the Mango flavor. Yuck! I love mango but these water were just awful. I drank it all anyway :-)

3:15PM, 75F, 50% humidity. My schedule did not allow a morning run. I started by running 0.75M to the bottom of the major hill on this route. It's actually just a 100m hill with medium slope. I stopped my watch and run up and down the hill 5 times. Then resumed my run and did the rest of the run. I hate running after lunch. I felt nausea almost all the way and I still do now. Surprisingly the pace was not bad (8:09 average).

0:38:42

8:45AM, 60F, 60% humidity. Nice weather a little bit of wind. Did my usual run which felt great (average pace 7:45). I'm going to travel tomorrow but will try to squeeze a tempo run in the morning. Starting from tomorrow I have crazy 10 days.

0:36:51

Gym tempo run on the treadmill. I'm traveling to Madison Wisconsin this afternoon and this was the only way i could squeeze a 6 mile into my schedule this morning. According to the treadmill I did 8:20,7:19,7:13,7:13,7:08,8:20

0:45:33

7:00 AM, 58F, 80% humidity. I'm in Madison Wisconsin. Ran 6.5 miles on the trail near Lake Mendota on the campus of the university of Wisconsin Madison. Beautiful. I woke up at 6:45, opened the curtains and the lake is literaly 20 feet from my window. The sun just started to rise the rowing team was already in the middle of the lake. I did a quick morning routine and at 7 I was already out running. Did fast 6.5 miles on this mnice trail. Lots of people outside. It's a wide trail that in most areas divided to walker/runners side and bike side. Very thoughtful. My pace was good (7:46) eventhough I had little sleep. I'm coming back to NC tonight and tomorrow morning we are going to NYC! I hope to do my Sunday run in central park.

0:50:29 (splits: 25:09, 25:20)