Arie's Running Blog

9AM 45F cloudy. It was raining all morning and I decided to wait till it gets better. Eventually went out at about 9AM and it was still drizzling. Somewhere toward the 4th or 5th mile the drizzle stopped and it actually became nicer and the sun gradually came out toward the end of the run. The run itself felt good. There were almost no people out. I did a relatively easy pace of just under 8 minutes per mile.

1:35:59

Noon, 30F light wind and sunny. It wasn't too bad. I bundled up and went out. It was a nice run. I didn't push the pace that much (7:46 average) and took the time to think about all sort of things. I ran between the campuses and did two loops on the east campus. Everything is so empty this time of the year.

0:49:44

5 miles on the treadmill. It's my first treadmill run for this season. I put it on 1% incline and did a little bit below 8 minutes pace. Finished strong.

0:39:02

3:30PM 64F cloudy. Went to Duke's tracks to do a short tempo run. I was tired from not sleeping enough in the last two days and it was already late in the day. I started with one mile warm up and then did 4 miles tempo. The mile splits were 7:06, 7:10,7:15, 722. This is wuite disappointing but I gave all I had which was apparently not much. Still have two short and easy runs to do tomorrow and on Friday and then a 12 miles on Sunday. Next week is a cut back week.

0:49:59

9:30PM 45F. Got to do my run late. I was tired and did a slow pace (8:01 average). Did 3 loops on the East Campus trail (13:19, 13:18, 13:02).

0:38:39

4:15PM 45F. Went to the gold trail and did two big loops and one small loop. It felt a bit hard today although the pace was not very hard (7:52). My sleep is far from perfect these days. Rest day tomorrow and long run on Sunday. Next week will be cut back week.

0:51:56