The group met down at the church at 124th So. and about 1100 W. I got there for easy miles. Started out by talking with Michelle and Cheris about their great Hobblecreek race. They were taking it easy, so moved up to talk with Jody about her Hobblecreek race. She wasn't overly happy with how things went, but hey, if I had run 1:39 I would have been very happy. That would be a PR for me. Then moved along to talk with Lisa about her and her husband's bike accidents. Lisa's handlebars came off her bike and she took a bad spill. Her husband was attacked by a dog on his bike. They've had a few bad things happen to them lately. Then we were done with easy miles and regrouped at the church. My pace for that run was about 8:47, give or take a few seconds.
Because just about everyone had raced this past weekend, we decided to take it easy today and just run and put in the miles. I made the mistake of starting out with Melanie and then just felt like I needed to keep up. So I ended up running with some of the faster members of the group, so this supposedly "easy" day turned into probably more of a tempo effort for me, which was fine, I actually kind of enjoyed it. My goal lately has just been to run more relaxed, especially keeping the upper body from tensing up too much. I feel I succeeded really well today, I felt pretty good on the run. We ran 5.37 miles, the avg. pace was 8:18. Then I just ran by myself for about 10 minutes until it was 7:00, thinking that would be it for the day. Then Peggy wanted to do more, so I ran with her. We ran about 2.2 miles, avg. pace 9:55. At the end we wanted to even out our miles, so we decided to run around the church at a faster pace. This is where I'm especially happy, hitting a 7:02 avg. for the two minute run, with best pace at 5:22. How do you maintain that pace for a longer time? That's my question. It felt good to put in 12 miles, it's pretty easy when you do it like we did today, and I enjoyed the fast running at the end. |