I was up at 4:45 so theoretically I had plenty of time to get ready and meet my group at 5:30. But in reality I was so tired that I just couldn't get going. After dragging around, I got on the treadmill and did a short warm-up. I started to feel better, so I headed off to meet the group at 6:00. We met at the trailhead at 123rd So. and the Jr. River Parkway trail. There was a pretty large group today--and even an ex-BYU quarterback joined us, Paul Shoemaker, who played in the early 1990's. I knew my 17 year old BYU fanatic son would be interested in me meeting him--even my 51 year old BYU fanatic husband would be interested in that too.
Anyway, we ran down the trail and then back, supposedly alternating between 8 minutes easy, 8 minutes hard. I think Brett Jenkins summed it up when we were halfway done, and he asked, "When does the easy part begin?" I was amused by that. It does seem like the pace doesn't really alternate between easy-hard, but more like hard-harder. I wonder if it would be better to make the easy part easier and the fast part faster. I guess I could just do that myself, but it's hard to really slow down when you are with a group. We all want to push the pace a little, I think. Anyway, it was a fun run overall. |