Bryan's Running Blog

34:18. I am very sore from Saturday's ultimate. So I ran a very slow 4 miles this morning just to get my legs moving.

34:30 -- 7:40 pace. I'm still sore from Saturday's ultimate. It was rainy, windy, and dark this morning. My glasses got all covered with rain/fogged up, so I couldn't see too well.

1:04:07 -- just over 7:30 pace per mile. I started kind of fast, then slowed down because I realized I had a long ways to run and couldn't sustain my pace. I turned around at 32 minutes and tried to make it back in 32 minutes. I would have, except I had to go to the bathroom for the last mile or two, so I slowed down a bit. I'm kind of bummed that it only ended up being 8.5 miles (according to mapmyrun.com). It felt like I was going faster than 7:30 pace. Oh well.

I'm getting slower!!!!

I tried running a fast mile today on the track. After a half mile in 2:37, I decided to give up. (I ended up jogging a couple of laps and running two quarter miles in 1:18 each.) This is somewhat frustrating because back in June, I ran a 5:15 mile on the same track (it was a race, which tends to make me run a little faster). I've definitely done a lot of running since June.

Maybe today's mile-attempt was slow because I went on a long run at a little faster pace than usual yesterday. I should probably also discipline myself to run the entire mile, instead of stopping early when I'm not going as fast as I'd hope.

I definitely I prefer long runs. I'd rather go out and explore a neighborhood and enjoy my run rather than killing myself running circles around a track. But I still want to break the 5 minute mile mark -- and hopefully by the end of the year. Oh well.

48:24. About 7:55 pace per mile. This is the beginning of my new training routine based on Sasha's advice. 6 miles a day at 8 minute pace for two months. I have to admit I'm a little skeptical: no pain, no gain, is what I've always thought. But we'll see. In any event, I enjoy these sort of runs and I'm sure this will build up leg strength. I just hope slow runs don't habituate my body to running slow.

Two games of ultimate. Each game was about an hour long. A mile is probably an underestimate for each game, but I guess it isn't typical running.