EXTREME MAKEOVER 2012

Ran 5 mile square in the afternoon.  The weather is awesome right now.  I felt ok for running in the afternoon, I would rather run ion the mornings but I can't get my butt out of bed.

I left the house at 9:15 pm and ran over to S.F. to my parents house.  It is exactly 8 miles from my house the theirs.  I felt really good on this run, I think that as I keep on loosing my winter weight that I should get back to where I was last summer pretty quick. (I hope).... I was able to average 7:09 pace for this run and it felt easy.  My dad was kind enough to drive me home.

Left the house in the evening again and wanted to run 5 miles.  I wanted it to be some what tough so I ran 2.5 miles up Loafer Cyn and then back to the house.  I was able to run an 8:11 pace up and then ended up averaging a 7:35 for the entire 5 miles.  I hope that the tempo run goes good tomorrow.

Met up with Michelle, Travis, Mack and Aubrey in SF and we ran out to mile 7 of the SF half course.  The plan was to run 5 miles at a 6:20 pace.  I was not feeling up to running fast at all.  My legs have felt so heavy lately.  We started and Michelle and Travis had a slight lead on me, I was feeling comfortable at the pace that I was running.  I seem to run  better when I start out slower and then I can finish strong.  Travis and Michelle were running good, I was thinking about throwing in the towel at mile 3.  My stomach was not feeling good, but I hung in there and thought ok I will go to mile 4 and then stop.  They had a good lead on me now, and I was thinking to myself, I don't think that I have lost that much of my speed, but I think that I have lost a lot of desire to want to run fast.  Kind of like Ricky Bobby (JK)  So if someone wants to come and put a cougar in my car let me know....ha ha.  I decided to stop being a whimp so I dropped the hammer and passed Michelle with about .5 to go.  I caught Travis about .3 to go and then we finished together.  Michelle passed us, because her watch read that we stopped to early by about 70'?  So I guess that she won the race...jk  

Splits

1-6:18

2-6:19

3-6:28

4-6:24

5-6:02

total time-31:31.43 (6:18 ave)

Ran kind of late today!  But it was sooooo nice to get out and run at 9:30 am.  I met up with Rich and we ran out into Lakeshore and back into SF.  It seemed like we covered a lot of ground for only running 16 miles.  The only problem with running out in farm country is that there are a lot of DOGS!  We had to stop and walk just to make sure that they were nice dogs!!  Luckily no bites today.  Legs felt awesome today!  I never really felt fatigued at all!  We averaged a 7:27 pace and it felt good!