Arie's Running Blog

7:40AM 45F 70% humidity. It was cold! I wore double layer and long pants. The cold temperatures were great for my speed. I could not believe it but my average was 7:32. The last 1.5-2 miles were a bit hard but I don't think I lost a lot of speed on them. The projected time for a HM if I continued the same pace would have been below 1:40.

1:30:23

10AM, 52 F, 50% humidity sunny. Nice and cool. Decided to take it easy in terms of milage this morning after my 12M yesterday.Pace was fast (7:33 avg.). It seems like I am running all my runs at the same speed (maybe apart from speed work repeats). Not sure this is good but so far it works for me.

0:35:51

9:10AM 50F, 70% humidity. I didn't sleep well at night and woke up with a slight headache. I'm having some troubles at work these days. Of course the cure to all of that was to run. I planned on 5 miles but ended up doing more because it made me feel good. The pace was good and slightly slower than previous two days (7:40 average).

0:49:05

11AM, 55F sunny and nice. The usual run at a very good pace (7:32 average). Nothing special to report. Tempo run tomorrow.

0:35:49

10:45AM,55F, 50% humidy sunny and windy. I'm not used to the cold weather yet but it does wonders to my pace. I was doing tempo run to day. I started from a different point this time and ran 1M to the East Campus loop. I did 3 loops tempo (1.65M each so it's 4.95M total) and then another mile back. The times were:

warm up mile: 7:57
loop #1: 11:36 (7:02 pace)
loop #2: 11 :37 (7:02 pace)
loop #3:  11:42 (7:05 pace)
cool down mile 7:42

Wow! I'm amazed by my time. I was working hard during the tempo but not as nearly as hard as I would imagine a 5M at close to 7 minutes per mile would feel. In fact if this was a 5M race I'd shutter my 5M PR by more than a minute! There is a huge difference between running 5M on July 4th when it's more than 80F and 90% himidity versus running it when it's 55F and 50% humidity.

Tomorrow easy 5-6 miles. I plan to do 12 or 13 miles on Sunday. So far my training progresses very well.

0:50:33

9AM nice and cool. Two loops around the trail. Did nice pace (7:55) for this course but it was not easy. Two loops of 2.9 each the first in 22:47 and the second in 23:10.

0:45:57