Arie's Running Blog

3:30PM, 68F 40% humidity. My wife was suppose to come back from NYC yesterday but La Guardia was shut down due to weather. So this morning it was a huge caos there and she was sent to Charlotte. I drove down there to pick her up. Round trip it was almost 5 hours. So we came back close to noon and I had lunch. I waited till 3 till I felt that lunch has sank down and took a clif shot and drank 3/4 of propel and waited 20 minutes till that sank down. The run was 2 times the 6.4 course I sometime do, So I ran to the east campus did two loops there and came back and then did exactly the same again. The first 6.4 were at 48:36 (7:36 pace) and the second 6.4 were at 49:48 (7:47) So I definately faded a bit on the second part but both were good paces. I didn't do as well as I did last week but today it was about 15-20F warmer and I was after almost 5 hours of driving. I'm just cutting myself some slack here :-) I also did 35 seconds break between the two 6.4 runs during which I was drinking the 1/4 bottle of proppel that I left at the start point. If I add these 35 seconds I ran the 12.8 in 99 minutes (7:44 pace average). I'm happy.

1:38:24 (1:38:59 with break)

3:30PM cold and sunny. My schedule allowed me to run in the afternoon. I was still sore from the weekend ling run so I took it easy. Did 8:11 pace which is kinda slow these days. I was happy with it.

0:38:54

4:00PM 52F, 40% humidity, very windy. It was really cold. I was a bit underdressed. I ran 0.7M to the bottom of a hill and did 5 hill repeats. I't a medium grade, medium length hill. Then continued to do the other 5.7M. Pace was a little faster than yesterday 7:49 on average.

0:50:03

11AM, 48F sunny and some wind. Ran between the campuses and added a small loop on East campus quad. OK pace (7:50), legs were less tired.

0:41:53

9:00AM 46F, 50% humidity. Was cool but the sun made it feel better. I headed up to the trail around Esat Campus for my tempo run. Warmed up with 0.6M and then did 3 X1.65M loops and an additional 1.05M to make it a 6M tempo and then cooled down another with 1M. I maintained an almost constant pace on the 6M tempo with an average pace of 7:13. The last mile was really hard I had to dig deep to maintain my pace. I'm starting to think that if I keep up this hard work and rest well the week before the 10K and if the weather will be good, I might be able to pull a 7:15 pace for the 10K. But maybe I'm just dreaming.

0:57:25

11AM, 55F sunny and nice. Nice run on my usual route. Good pace and effort. Rest tomorrow and long run on Sunday.

0:36:28